Owen Anderson Posted February 11 Posted February 11 In one of the recently opened, fully decorated hobbit holes on Bagshot Row that you can walk through. 1
Jake Middleton-Metcalfe Posted February 11 Posted February 11 That is a curious combination of history and fantasy, which might initially seem out of place but... In the lord of the rings book there is a rather long chapter at the end whereby Saruman invades the Shire, ushers in an industrial age and begins to build back to back terrace houses in the style of perhaps Victorian industrial parts of the UK, the hobbits are very unhappy about this, feeling that their rural Idyl has been smashed... however the heros Sam, Frodo and Co return home to re-establish order, throw out Saruman and if memory serves.... knocked down a large more efficient mill to re build the older small less efficient mill.. Perhaps the concertina here is meant to reference the brief industrial period in the story of the Shire... or perhaps the set builders just put in anything that looked vaguely old. Or perhaps I am over-thinking it. 4
Tiposx Posted February 11 Posted February 11 Nice setting. Non-players seem to like placing them upside down though! 1 1
wunks Posted February 11 Posted February 11 Saruman left a listening device ( AKA Alexa ) when he was drummed out of town.
Luke Hillman Posted February 11 Posted February 11 4 hours ago, Jake Middleton-Metcalfe said: That is a curious combination of history and fantasy, which might initially seem out of place but... I love this analysis. When I visited the set in 2019, the only concertina I saw was in the Green Dragon, and it was a postwar 20-button German one. At least this one seems more geographically appropriate, if anachronistic.
Anglo-Irishman Posted February 11 Posted February 11 Hobbits and concertinas - very interesting! One thing I've ascertained about Tolkien's books is that he intersperses the action with songs of Hobbit or Elven origin, but he never mentions the instruments used to accompany them. There's one Hobbit song that runs, "Gil-galad was an Elven king. Of him the harpers sadly sing. ..." So there must have been harps somewhere in Middle Earth. But we can't assume that a Hobbit would necessarily sing these lines to a harp accompaniment. I've set a couple of songs from LOTR to music, and accompany them on Autoharp or guitar. Of these, the Autoharp (to my ear) sounds rather more Elvish. I haven't tried the concertina for these songs yet. Cheers, John
LesJessop Posted February 11 Posted February 11 What is the item on the table, half out of shot at the bottom of the picture? It looks to me like a Sardinian launeddas, but I'm sure that Tolkien didn't mention them !
Owen Anderson Posted February 12 Author Posted February 12 3 hours ago, LesJessop said: What is the item on the table, half out of shot at the bottom of the picture? It looks to me like a Sardinian launeddas, but I'm sure that Tolkien didn't mention them ! Unfortunately I don’t have a wider shot of that table. I was too excited by seeing the concertina!
David Barnert Posted February 12 Posted February 12 3 hours ago, LesJessop said: What is the item on the table, half out of shot at the bottom of the picture? It looks to me like a Sardinian launeddas, but I'm sure that Tolkien didn't mention them ! Looks like it might be some mind of Native American flute.
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