Nos ha dado por las reproducciones tridimensionales y las maquetas. Después de Michael Paul Smith le toca el turno a Maddie Brindley y su agujero hobbit
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La casa de un hobbit en miniatura
La continuación de la nueva trilogía de Peter Jackson basada en la obra de Tolkien, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug ha sido recibida con entusiasmo por parte de los fieles fans del universo mítico del venerado escritor inglés. Los admiradores de esta obra fantástica son personas muy creativas que están totalmente inmersas en las aventuras de sus personajes favoritos. Sirva de muestra esta extraordinaria casa de hobbit que hizo la artista Maddie Brindley. Su réplica de Bolsón Cerrado quita el aliento. Maddie ha sido una seguidora de la obra de Tolkien desde que era una niña y leyó El Hobbit por primera vez. "Creo que tenía 10 años y quedé enganchada al instante", dice en su blog. "He leído El Señor de los Anillos unas 20 veces y nunca ha perdido la magia para mi". Cuando Peter Jackson hizo la primera trilogía aquel mundo que solo existía en las páginas de los libros cobró vida ante sus ojos y la fascinó aún más. Un día mientras tomaba un curso llamado "La importancia de jugar" decidió hacer una casa de hobbit en miniatura. Lo que comenzó como una pequeña colina con la puerta de la casa de Bilbo Bolsón fue evolucionando hasta convertirse en una increíble réplica con todos los detalles que se mencionan en los libros y se pueden ver en la película. "Me decidí a hacer todo a mano - el marco, el jardín exterior, los muebles, la comida y ha sido una verdadera labor de amor y he encontrado algo que realmente disfruto haciendo. ¡Siempre me han gustado las manualidades y disfrutar de la pintura, etc, pero esto estimula mi imaginación aún más!".
My Hand Made Hobbit Hole – Bag End from Lord of the Rings
January 18, 2010
Aerial View of Hobbit Dolls House
Background on Bag End:
My name is Maddie Chambers/Brindley and this all began when I was a young child and read the Hobbit for the first time. I believe I was about 10 and I was instantly hooked. My Nanan lent me her copy of the Lord of the Rings about 1 year later and I remember thinking that the trilogy leaped into a far more complex world and one that I completely lost myself in. I have read Lord of the Rings about 20+ times now and each time it holds as much magic as the first time. When they announced that they were making a movie, I was really concerned that it would not live up to my imagination and that I would be disappointed. As it happens, a lot of it DID live up to my expectations, and when Gandalf visited Bag End in the Fellowship of the Rings, I could have cried with excitement because it was PERFECT and nearly exactly as I imagined!
Anyway I decide to take on this project as part of a college course I was doing part time when my twins boys were 1 year old. The module was called ‘the importance of play’ and we had to make a toy to hand in at the end of the term. Of course me being me, I took it to the extreme and at first I decided to make a little hill with a front door like Bag End. I used to play Warhammer and make scenery and paint the little models so the idea was to make an A4 type size model hill using my Warhammer scenery stuff (foam, static grass etc) Yes I am a geek lol.
Then I thought, well what if I made the roof removable and had a little room inside? then of course I started drawing up plans and added more rooms and then decided ‘what the hell?’ I might as well make a replica of the one from the movie and make it big enough to fit in dolls house type furniture!
I decided to make everything by hand – the frame, the garden outside, the furniture (as much as I could), the food and it has been a real labour of love and I have found something I truly enjoy doing. I have always been ‘crafty’ and enjoy painting etc, but this captures my imagination even more!
I decided to make everything by hand – the frame, the garden outside, the furniture (as much as I could), the food and it has been a real labour of love and I have found something I truly enjoy doing. I have always been ‘crafty’ and enjoy painting etc, but this captures my imagination even more!
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Miniature Bag End
Bag End now lives in Australia with the Fortinbras Proudfoot Esq. Foundation, which supports children’s literacy. The model is available to hire and the profits go to a very good cause. http://www.facebook.com/ProudfootEsq
Lots of people have asked me how long it took to create – I have little twin boys who I looked after full time during the day (and sometimes throughout the night!!) so I worked on it a couple of hours a night or during nap times in the day. This was not an every day thing I hasten to add – I have many hobbies including electric and acoustic guitar, kickboxing, walking my 2 dogs, reading watching movies etc etc. I did work out once that if I had worked on it 9-5 with an hour for lunch it would have taken me 2-3 months!
Bag End front door
Bilbo Baggins Vegetable Patch!
I made this vegetable plot with nails and wire ‘twigs for the fence and I made the veg out of Fimo. The flowers are made from FlowerSoft and wire
No Admittance except on party business
Finally got the gate done! Fence still needs to be built and that is next on my list.
an attempt to take photo through the windows – didn’t come out very well but putting it on anyway because the fire looks all ‘homey’ lol
Bilbo’s front door
hallway view through front door
Hall Shelf with statue of Gandalf riding Shadowfax :-)
I got this orange top from a free gift of a weird looking doll from dolls house emporium – gave the doll away but kept the jacket so that my poor hobbits have something to wear! Hobbit clothing is on my list of things to start making!
View into living room/study from Hall
I need to hoover!!!!
Hobbit Living Room complete with paintings of Belladonna Took and Bungo Baggins
All the maps and documents you see are real middle-earth maps printed onto ‘aged’ paper. The scrolls all have writing printed onto them in Bilbo’s handwriting or Elvish. I made the tiny quills from feathers and the candles out of Fimo. The rug took me a LONG time to do. I looked everywhere for one similar to the one in the movie but couldn’t find one I was happy with so in the end I used good old Microsoft Paint and drew the design myself from the rug in the movie! then printed it onto cotton and sewed the rest of the rug.
The family tree you see on the wall is the actual Baggins family tree which I made in Paint using a family tree template
Statue of Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee
I love the little statue of Frodo and Sam – these are Warhammer models given to me in 2001 by my friend Claire (thanks Lu!) I never got round to painting them and so I made them a base out of Fimo and painted them in a bronze effect. I once made Claire watch fellowship of the rings and she sat through all of it, didn’t understand much of it and thought that the hobbits were called ‘gibbons’ I will never forget that haha!!!
Thror’s Map (and replica of Bilbo’s table)
Thror’s map – made a frame out of wood, varnished it and put the map in it 
The pictures above show the scene from the movie where Gandalf looks at Bilbo’s table and my recreation of it
hobbit kitchen
Kitchen. I bought all the china plates but made all the food and ‘custom made’ the fireplace. The units were white wood unfinished when I bought them and I just varnished and filled them!
Close up of the fireplace. This was a free gift from Dolls House Emporium (http://www.dollshouse.com/dhe/product-details.aspx?code=2845&ref=search) I re-painted it, hollowed out a hole and added logs and firebulb and then added the bricks round the outside. If I was being pedantic, it should really be curved, but I am happy with it for now till I have time to make another!
Hobbit Kitchen
I made the table for the sink out of bits I cut off the dressers to make them fit in. My favourite bit of food I made is the string of garlic hung in the corner – well I’m pretty sure hobbits don’t like vampires anyway (it’s just me that does!)
Bag End Pantry
The pantry – I installed shelves and filled full of food – I made all the food in here from Fimo.
Close up of the shelves – many thanks to Angie Scarr for her wonderful books on making food out of Fimo which provided LOADS of inspiration and instruction for me. I hadn’t used Fimo since I was a small child so it was great to learn how to make mini food as an adult!
I made all the stained glass windows from thin perspex, glass paint and glass leading
Thanks to my Mum who sent over trinkets from USA where she lives – the blue and white specked crockery and pans are american. She also sent over cans of fanta, pepsi, 7up and Dr Pepper. They are cunningly camouflaged around the kitchen and pantry as I did not really think that hobbits were into the whole fizzy drink thing!!!
If you look closely there is an ‘anniversary edition’ plate from Dolls House Emporium on this dresser from March 2009 which was the month I started the project
Barrel of Longbottom Leaf Pipe Weed!
check out the barrel in this pic – I bought a plain wooden barrel, varnished it and added a ‘longbottom leaf’ label – and filled it with hobbit pipe weed!!!! The label is a replica of the barrel of pipe weed merry and pippin (sorry typo put sam before!) find in the extended version of the movie (flotsam and jetsam scene)
PIPE WEED close up (not sure why the papers keep calling it ale lol)
Pipe Weed
View through to the bathroom
hobbit bathroom
Mum and her partner David sent this rug from USA as a thanks for talking them through formatting their laptop – that was fun over the phone!!!!!
made the fire out of stones from my back garden (and I knocked the light off with the camera which is why it is hanging down – this has now been fixed so I better update photo at some point!)
I made the towels and flannels out of my twin boys babygrows (they had grown out of them!) the soap is fimo and the bottles are beads
view into bedroom
Bag End Bedroom
My mum made a lovely patchwork quilt for the bed but I changed the bed and it doesn’t fit on the new bed (hint hint mum I need a new quilt love you x)
I like the painting in here – it is a painting of Rivendell and the frame was a bargain cost 20p because it was smashed into little pieces when I bought it – superglue is my friend
the castle on the shelf I bought from Miniatura show. I undercoated it in black and dry brushed in mithril silver (thankyou Games Workshop and my earlier years spent painting warhammer models)
The axes are from my Gimli doll which I bought in USA in 2000 (yes, again, I know I am a geek)
Ok well that is the end of the photos of the interior for now – please click on the link below to see how I made the hobbit house
http://madshobbithole.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/how-i-made-the-hobbit-hole/
Just wanted to explain a few things that a lot of people have commented on. First of all and possibly most importantly – of course I know the walls should be rounded. I sat for ages working out how I would do it, but I could not have had it open at the top if the walls were circular. I would probably have had to make a long thin house and some how bored big holes into the side of the hill to make the rooms and have either the back or front removable rather than the top. I eventually decided against this for 3 reasons,
1. did not have any tools to be able to cut deep holes in wood
2. Do not have the space to create something that long
3. The project had to be finished by the end of term so I only had a few months to get it into a fit state to be handed in so I took the easiest and most sensible option that I could!
I have seen Tolkien’s sketch of bag end lots of times so I know how my bag end differs:2. Do not have the space to create something that long
3. The project had to be finished by the end of term so I only had a few months to get it into a fit state to be handed in so I took the easiest and most sensible option that I could!
http://bitoflight.luminousbeings.net/keepsakes/BagEnd-drawing2.htm
http://bitoflight.luminousbeings.net/keepsakes/Fonstad-BagEnd.htm
Again, I do not have the room to fit all these rooms in. In fact even this sketch doesn’t match up with the text in 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”
There should be kitchenS and dining roomS instead of just one each – so I figure if the person who wrote the ‘atlas of middle earth’ can use artistic license, I can too! I did try to match the hall to his sketch though and even put in a circular table like Tolkien’s picturehttp://bitoflight.luminousbeings.net/keepsakes/BagEnd-final-small.jpg
I based some on the movie, some on the book and some on my imagination. The food in the kitchen and pantry includes everything mentioned in The Hobbit when the dwarves and Gandalf come to visit: beer, cakes, tea, seed cake, coffee, porter, scones, red wine, raspberry jame, apple tart, mince pies, cheese, pork pie salad, eggs, cold chicken, pickles and ham. (anything you can’t see on the shelves is in the little store cupboard behind glass doors or in drawers – couldn’t fit everything on the shelves)
I really believe that I did the very best I could given my time, space and money constraints and that any piece of work based on literature is going to be very debatable because every single person on this planet has a unique imagination and what a rich, varied, beautiful planet it is because of this.
So I am glad a lot of people like my version, and sorry to anyone who thinks it doesn’t match up with the book – believe me I know my own downfalls, but I am only human and maybe one day soon I will make another version that suits you better
Link to my next projects:http://madsgingerbreadhouse.wordpress.com
http://madsmousehouse.wordpress.com
If you would like to see pictures of how I created the hobbit house step by step click on the link below:
How I made the Hobbit Hole
January 17, 2010
Here are some photographs documenting the creation of my Miniature Bag End from when I started in March 2009
the very first piece of wood that I cut! (ok I later scrapped it, but still!) you can also see a bit of the wood panelling that I made myself. HUGE thanks to my partner Graham who taught me how to use power tools lol. He also helped me with advice on measurements etc and put up without a dining room table for months on end. Graham is a VERY tidy person so he deserves a medal for allowing me to have hobbit stuff everywhere!!!
the first frame that I made. I decided after I had got to this stage that the walls were too thin (3mm) so put this model above in the bin and started all over again and added another room!!!!!!
The new frame – if you look closely you can see I already had made the front door - this was one of the first things I made and why the varnish doesn’t quite match the colour of the wood panelling I later settled on! another thing I have learnt to live with for now
I tried 3 different sorts of wood panelling and varnish before I settled on mahogany. And I am still not 100% happy with it because it is darker than the wood in the movie. The panelling above got ripped out several times and I even made my own wood panels (see top photograph) but it was a nightmare trying to cut circles in it because the wood was too brittle. I met a really helpful guy at Miniatura show who sells tudor panelling in mahogany wood so I ended up buying and using that for the house – it looks good and was sturdy enough to cut circles out of to go round the door frames.
Starting the tiling in the hallway. It is great during this project I learnt carpentry, electric wiring, flooring, grouting and all sorts (but all in miniature so not much use in my own home!)
More flooring laid – the stone was the hardest because the pieces are not even sizes so trying to get them fitted into the space was not easy for my ‘girl’ brain
starting the panelling above – I fitted skirting board, then panelling above that then the handrail above the panels
close up of the panels and stained glass windows
start of the front wall using mini bricks, concrete filler stuff and paint
close up of living room window. This window and the windows in the hall are a direct copy (well as close as I could make) of the actual windows in the movie. The others are mostly improvised from my own imagination. This window opens and closes with the tiny hinges and is made out of perspex, thin wood which I varnished and black leading
making the fireplace for the bathroom – using rocks from my back garden, glue and cement
I added wall wooden beams – I cut them to size and wittled them down a bit at the sides to look more aged then varnished them.
inside coming together a bit more
the outside! Thankyou very much to my friend Andi who got me some foam to build the outside structure. You would not believe how difficult that stuff is to get hold of. I have a ‘making wargames scenery’ book by Games Workshop and in it it tells you to make structures out of this ‘high density foam’ and cover in polyfiller. Well I called every games workshop in the area and only one shop told me where to get it – B&Q. I called them and asked for ‘high density foam’ the line went quiet and they hand’t got a clue what I was talking about. if you google it, the closest match I could find was ‘blue or pink foam’ and NOWHERE sells large quantities of it. If anyone knows where to get it, please let me know for my next project! I found one company that supplied it for the insides of childrens soft play areas but it cost £200 for a small amount – er no. I resorted to wire, modroc and filler for the large areas
starting to lay grass and paving
front door before flowers etc. I used different shades of grass and graduated them to create the ‘scorched’ grass effect around the stepping stones
I fitted all the wiring for the lights at this stage – many thanks to the lovely people at Matlock Miniatures who advised me what sort to buy and how many transformers etc I needed!
I built the steps with stones from my garden
some mini bread I made out of Fimo – hard to tell how big they are from this pic but the round ones are about the size of my thumbnail (penny size)
a table of food that I made
I made some fimo pumpkins for halloween - complete with mini light. The idea for this came from a guy called Dean Miskelly hubby of Amy who uses the same twins club as I do (http://www.twinsclub.co.uk) I was calling them to try and sort a pc problem for them (which by the way I didn’t manage to do!) but I did get the great idea of pumpkin with light in it so not a complete waste of a phone call lol
the process of making trees and flowers - I took the wire on the left, bent it into the shape in the middle and added the foliage on the right! oh and made some tiny flowers out of tiny petals cut out with a heart shaped punch and glued to strands of wire
the very first piece of wood that I cut! (ok I later scrapped it, but still!) you can also see a bit of the wood panelling that I made myself. HUGE thanks to my partner Graham who taught me how to use power tools lol. He also helped me with advice on measurements etc and put up without a dining room table for months on end. Graham is a VERY tidy person so he deserves a medal for allowing me to have hobbit stuff everywhere!!!
the first frame that I made. I decided after I had got to this stage that the walls were too thin (3mm) so put this model above in the bin and started all over again and added another room!!!!!!
The new frame – if you look closely you can see I already had made the front door - this was one of the first things I made and why the varnish doesn’t quite match the colour of the wood panelling I later settled on! another thing I have learnt to live with for now
I tried 3 different sorts of wood panelling and varnish before I settled on mahogany. And I am still not 100% happy with it because it is darker than the wood in the movie. The panelling above got ripped out several times and I even made my own wood panels (see top photograph) but it was a nightmare trying to cut circles in it because the wood was too brittle. I met a really helpful guy at Miniatura show who sells tudor panelling in mahogany wood so I ended up buying and using that for the house – it looks good and was sturdy enough to cut circles out of to go round the door frames.
Starting the tiling in the hallway. It is great during this project I learnt carpentry, electric wiring, flooring, grouting and all sorts (but all in miniature so not much use in my own home!)
More flooring laid – the stone was the hardest because the pieces are not even sizes so trying to get them fitted into the space was not easy for my ‘girl’ brain
starting the panelling above – I fitted skirting board, then panelling above that then the handrail above the panels
close up of the panels and stained glass windows
start of the front wall using mini bricks, concrete filler stuff and paint
close up of living room window. This window and the windows in the hall are a direct copy (well as close as I could make) of the actual windows in the movie. The others are mostly improvised from my own imagination. This window opens and closes with the tiny hinges and is made out of perspex, thin wood which I varnished and black leading
making the fireplace for the bathroom – using rocks from my back garden, glue and cement
I added wall wooden beams – I cut them to size and wittled them down a bit at the sides to look more aged then varnished them.
inside coming together a bit more
the outside! Thankyou very much to my friend Andi who got me some foam to build the outside structure. You would not believe how difficult that stuff is to get hold of. I have a ‘making wargames scenery’ book by Games Workshop and in it it tells you to make structures out of this ‘high density foam’ and cover in polyfiller. Well I called every games workshop in the area and only one shop told me where to get it – B&Q. I called them and asked for ‘high density foam’ the line went quiet and they hand’t got a clue what I was talking about. if you google it, the closest match I could find was ‘blue or pink foam’ and NOWHERE sells large quantities of it. If anyone knows where to get it, please let me know for my next project! I found one company that supplied it for the insides of childrens soft play areas but it cost £200 for a small amount – er no. I resorted to wire, modroc and filler for the large areas
starting to lay grass and paving
front door before flowers etc. I used different shades of grass and graduated them to create the ‘scorched’ grass effect around the stepping stones
I fitted all the wiring for the lights at this stage – many thanks to the lovely people at Matlock Miniatures who advised me what sort to buy and how many transformers etc I needed!
I built the steps with stones from my garden
some mini bread I made out of Fimo – hard to tell how big they are from this pic but the round ones are about the size of my thumbnail (penny size)
a table of food that I made
I made some fimo pumpkins for halloween - complete with mini light. The idea for this came from a guy called Dean Miskelly hubby of Amy who uses the same twins club as I do (http://www.twinsclub.co.uk) I was calling them to try and sort a pc problem for them (which by the way I didn’t manage to do!) but I did get the great idea of pumpkin with light in it so not a complete waste of a phone call lol
the process of making trees and flowers - I took the wire on the left, bent it into the shape in the middle and added the foliage on the right! oh and made some tiny flowers out of tiny petals cut out with a heart shaped punch and glued to strands of wire
