Timeline for Did Bag End have a second door?
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| Apr 20, 2022 at 10:02 | comment | added | Eugene | @IanBush I think "Bag End" means where a road ends. In the Shire map, you can see the road to Overhill deviates from the road to Bag End at the foot of the Hill, and goes around it. | |
| Apr 20, 2022 at 8:06 | comment | added | Ian Bush | I always assumed that the road shown in that picture lead to Overhill - theonering.com/galleries/maps-calendars-genealogies/… | |
| Apr 20, 2022 at 2:32 | comment | added | Eugene | @ibid I mean, the map of the Hill in the Atlas, right next to this one, is clearly based on Tolkien's own painting "Hobbiton across the Water". Both show the party field. In Tolkien's, the field is bordered by the road, and A garden to the left (unless it's part of the party field). Fonstad put the kitchen garden left of the flower garden, so unless it extends around the flower garden outside the map of Bag End, it cannot border the party field. | |
| Apr 20, 2022 at 1:51 | history | edited | ibid | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 20, 2022 at 1:38 | comment | added | ibid | @HorusKol - Indeed you're right, and I guess that cannot be the reason why she thought there was a second door. I'll change my answer. | |
| Apr 20, 2022 at 1:33 | comment | added | HorusKol | "the field to the south of his front door - it was bordered by his kitchen garden on one side and the Hill road on the other" - sounds like it's the field that is bordered by the garden and road, rather than a door. | |
| Apr 19, 2022 at 17:32 | comment | added | ibid | @Eugene - I'd add that it the HoMe draft quote does specify this as being the "front door". Perhaps it should have been disregarded completely, but Fonstad liked to use HoMe details wherever she could fit them in | |
| Apr 19, 2022 at 7:29 | comment | added | Eugene | Thanks. It doesn't look like the kitchen garden is bordering the party field in the map though. | |
| Apr 19, 2022 at 6:15 | history | answered | ibid | CC BY-SA 4.0 |