In the books it's very explicitly tobacco. However in the movies it was clearly meant to be psychoactive, if not actual cannabis.
Either way sign me up for that organic Hobbit grown middle earth smoke.
I empathize with the feeling of living a simpler, happier life, but living like a hobbit would suck for a lot of us.
Indoor plumbing, sewage, electricity and internet, are all way more important to the kind of people who are on this site than they might expect. In addition to that, if you've never lived in the countryside, rural living and basic peasant subsistence farming is fucking awful. You are constantly working maintenance and rebuilding damaged property. You're always dirty, smelly, and tired.
To my knowledge, hobbit holes have none of those amenities. You can make one of these in a city or suburb if you can get the permit, it'll just be a strange looking house. That's not how I interpreted the post.
why wouldn't you assume people want modern niceties? that seems like a pretty obvious thing to assume.
and again, there's no reason you can't have this stuff in a rural place, it's not like rural people in sweden have outhouses and drive to the nearest city to use the internet..
just install a septic tank, drill a well, slap up solar panels and a small wind turbine, and get a 4g router.
A city near where I lived had an underground house that looked like this. It was the "house of the future" because of reasons I don't remember. I passed by it a few years ago, and it looked empty, overgrown and run down.
A meter of soil is a pretty good insulator. There is plenty of more newer houses built like this by enthusiasts, that practically go without extra heating or ac, because the sun warms it up enough in winter and the soil keeps it cool enough in summer.
I have a distinct memory of driving past a house like that repeatedly as a kid, but that was decades ago now. Tried searching for it now and cannot find it. I suspect it suffered a similar fate. Can't find any photos or references to it online though, so maybe I imagined it...
i mean i'd still love a 5 floor apartment building built halfway into a hill, those at the bottom get to live like hobbits and those at the top get a shorter distance to the ground
Hobbits walking past the hobbit hole in the pic like motherfuckin gentrification buildings brah, this rent is already too high, I gotta use my gun more
Yo I wanna walk to my buddies house, smoke some pot, eat some good food and just live a jolly life.
Pretty sure that's exactly what them Hobbitses smoke. So you just saying you want shire life.
In the books it's very explicitly tobacco. However in the movies it was clearly meant to be psychoactive, if not actual cannabis. Either way sign me up for that organic Hobbit grown middle earth smoke.
Hell yeah I want that Shire life
Warm hard fact. Its heartwarming to know we all wish for the samecomfy place
Think you guys mean “warm hearth facts” and all the comforts of home
For your heart maybe, but the rest of you is gonna feel cold. That hobbit hole needs to be heated a lot.
I lived in a student complex once, similar to the top right examples, and I never once had to turn on the heating. Dirt cheap too.
I think the dirt is a very good insulator, so you wouldn't have to heat it that much.
I empathize with the feeling of living a simpler, happier life, but living like a hobbit would suck for a lot of us.
Indoor plumbing, sewage, electricity and internet, are all way more important to the kind of people who are on this site than they might expect. In addition to that, if you've never lived in the countryside, rural living and basic peasant subsistence farming is fucking awful. You are constantly working maintenance and rebuilding damaged property. You're always dirty, smelly, and tired.
but like rural people have plumbing, electricity, and internet? the internet one is absolutely trivial nowadays with 4g routers
To my knowledge, hobbit holes have none of those amenities. You can make one of these in a city or suburb if you can get the permit, it'll just be a strange looking house. That's not how I interpreted the post.
why wouldn't you assume people want modern niceties? that seems like a pretty obvious thing to assume.
and again, there's no reason you can't have this stuff in a rural place, it's not like rural people in sweden have outhouses and drive to the nearest city to use the internet..
just install a septic tank, drill a well, slap up solar panels and a small wind turbine, and get a 4g router.
I had a whole thing written out but I just don't feel like arguing about this
lol okay
I am pretty sure 4g isn't really viable for most rural areas.
here's the 4g coverage in sweden for the Telia network, how much more rural do you want to get? siberia?
Yeah our coverage maps look pretty good too. However, in practice the service can be very hit and miss... mostly miss.
I keep bumping my head on the roof tho
You have to take turns and bang your head on the ceiling chandelier in between.
Lankies not welcome!
Shire always looks so perfect. I swear it and Whiterun in Skyrim are my happy places.
You'd never make it to the cloud district though
Hey! No lollygagging!
Yes. Or Corvo Bianco (Toussaint) in Witcher 3.
Do hobbit holes get the gigabit hookup?
1000/500 is the default in Hobbiton, but up to 8Gbps is available across most of Tue country!
Surely you mean gigahobbit
What if gigabit hookup is the problem?
It's not, but we can pretend like it is!
A city near where I lived had an underground house that looked like this. It was the "house of the future" because of reasons I don't remember. I passed by it a few years ago, and it looked empty, overgrown and run down.
Apparently has plenty of light inside. I wonder if the cold would eventually seep in. Or what the plants and water are going to do to the structure.
A meter of soil is a pretty good insulator. There is plenty of more newer houses built like this by enthusiasts, that practically go without extra heating or ac, because the sun warms it up enough in winter and the soil keeps it cool enough in summer.
I have a distinct memory of driving past a house like that repeatedly as a kid, but that was decades ago now. Tried searching for it now and cannot find it. I suspect it suffered a similar fate. Can't find any photos or references to it online though, so maybe I imagined it...
For anyone interested, you can look up "earthship"
We've kinda figured out suburbia is really bad for multiple reasons though
Hobbiton is not suburbia, neither are actual villages with a village centre, a small shop and a bus stop.
Here’s to our solarpunk, hobbit future.
The Shire is great and all but I always want to live in a tree city since reading about Lothlorien.
Sadly the density is shit, so it's not really viable
Would still love it, also great meme
i mean i'd still love a 5 floor apartment building built halfway into a hill, those at the bottom get to live like hobbits and those at the top get a shorter distance to the ground
Sounds very nice.
Hobbits walking past the hobbit hole in the pic like motherfuckin gentrification buildings brah, this rent is already too high, I gotta use my gun more
Ain’t that the truth…
This is equivalent to the mansion of a billionaire with generational wealth
Good ol' Middle of Nowhere in New Zealand (that's actually where the Shire is located btw), yeah now I wanna spend my winter holiday there.
what’s stopping you?
Are you asking sarcastically? Or realistically? Cause realistically, wwwooowww what a list
yea sarcastically ^^ but with a hint of notsomuch