Everything was so lush and it did indeed look as though the hobbits still lived there and were just away at the moment; perhaps at the party field celebrating Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday.
It really was such a surreal experience to visit a locale which we had imagined since we were children and had finally glimpsed in the LoTR and Hobbit movies. Even our younger children, who were too young to watch the full movies were excited to peer into the windows and to imagine the hobbits living there. |