by Stanley Anderson » October 5th, 2007, 2:42 pm
Not the slightest time delay in choosing -- it has long been Rivendell. Tom Bombadil's house is up there too. But I suppose the "realistic" choice would have to be what we named the family room addition that we built onto our house a few years ago -- Crickhollow, the house that Frodo was suppose to move into when he left the Shire and only spent less than a day at with Sam, Merry, Pippin, and Fatty Bolger. In the book it is very cozy and seems nicely situated between the comfort of the Shire and the adventure and unknown of the Old Forest along with the security and friendship of Farmer Maggot and the Bucklanders -- a sort of "on the edge of Fairie" feel, I think.
(I'll also mention, as I have often before, that we named our garden "Bywater Garden at Three Farthing Stone" which is "layed out", in a manner, after the four farthings of the Shire, with several "landmarks" representing various things and places in the Shire.)
--Stanley
…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.