Video: Home for the Hobbit: Steve and Christina Michaels' burrow house
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
“There was a hobbit in a hole underground. Not in a filthy, dirty and damp burrow, where there is nothing to sit on and nothing to eat, but also not in empty sandstone, where it is full of worms. No, it was a hobbit hole, which means it was comfortable and comfortable. It's not just JRR Tolkien's story that begins with these words. This is a kind of epigraph from the website of Steve and Christina Michaels - the spouses who opened the hotel for Tolkienists. First of all, future guests are asked if their legs are hairy, and only then they are invited to visit Bilbo Baggins and the company.
Steve and Christine Michaels live in Montana, in the northwestern United States. Both are about 60 years old and trade in securities. Why should such honorable spouses, excuse me, have a house-hole? Well, it means that they are not so honorable, but rather big hunters for inventions, who did not have enough childhood for this. Steve Michaels, for example, is known in narrow circles as the local Santa Claus and the author of How to Die with a Smile on Your Face.
True, at first there was no question of any hobbits. The Michaels just furnished a dugout to rent out rooms to guests. Until one day the son of one of the tenants exclaimed: "Wow, just like a hobbit's house!" Everyone laughed, and the owners took note of this and soon asked what kind of hobbits they were. And after reading the Professor's books and watching the film adaptations, they decided to live in the world of fantasy themselves and invite others.
Everyone can feel like a character of JRR Tolkien. There is something to see in the vicinity: troll dwelling, a huge mushroom, a well, Gandalf on a cart. It costs $ 245 to spend the night in a burrow house. True, real hobbits, obviously, never dreamed of TVs, telephones and Wi-Fi. But then the dwelling has a door with the image of Gandalf and that very ring. In the spring, deer come to graze on the roof of this unusual house.
Steve and Christina Michaels spent as much as $ 410,000 on houses and other furnishings. But money is not happiness. It was really interesting for the spouses to equip the fairy-tale world. And after a recent article in The New York Times and TV material, there will be no end to those wishing to stay in the burrowing house.
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