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Matěj Čadil: The Hall at Bag End

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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats - the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill - The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it - and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another. No going upstairs for the hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of these), wardrobes (he had whole rooms devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining-rooms, all were on the same floor, and indeed on the same passage. The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were the only ones to have windows, deep-set round windows looking over his garden and meadows beyond, sloping down to the river.

The Hobbit. Chapter I, An Unexpected Party

Here is my picture of the Hall at Bag End. The primary inspiration to draw this came from the Inktober52 prompt "Doorway". The most iconic door in Tolkien's Legendarium is of course the round door of hobbit holes. I have already drawn a picture of the Door at Bag End earlier this year, so this time, inspired by the prompt, I decided to take a different approach, the inside-out view, emphasizing the doorway as the way from the comfortable hobbit hole to the outside world where adventure awaits.

I was also reminded of J. R. R. Tolkien's own illustration of this same place so I decided to base my own depiction on Tolkien's illustration, which is something I love to do for places or scenes that Tolkien himself illustrated (I have made several such pieces, for example Hobbiton, Barrels out of Bond or Enchanted River).

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• Published 1 Oct 2021

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