J. R. R. Tolkien imagined Bilbo Baggins’ door as a circular construction, green and impressive in size (for a hobbit). Peter Jackson ran with the description and the gently rustic feel of the Shire and created an organic-and-tudor style mix that Gus has wonderfully captured here in the blocky medium of LEGO. There are so many details to love in this scene; the fence is made from a pair of whips, while the circular window to the right of the door is a bicycle tire! The organic side of the hobbit style is on full display as Gus has achieved both a cobbled circle for the windmill tower, and a smooth roof-line mimicking the slope of the of the hill – not to mention the striking red of the wood slats in the door. With all of this excellent building on display only one question remains; are these two folks Bagginses or Tooks?
I like the jumper plates in the red door, gives it a timber look. I’ll have to remember that technique
So if my Tolkien lore is not too faded, I guess those 2 are Sandyman the Miller and son?
It would be nice to see what such a person could create if given parts for a few square metres to tell a larger story.
P.S. Your text, rewritten:
“Gus has achieved both a cobbled circle for the windmill tower and a smooth roof-line mimicking the slope of the hill – not to mention the striking red of the wood slats in the door. With all of this excellent building on display, only one question remains: are these two folks Bagginses or Tooks?” (i.e., eliminated a comma, eliminated also two words which appeared twice in a row, added a comma, and replaced a semicolon with a colon).
There must be a lot of pressure on a TBB writer: both merciless deadlines and even more merciless readers. We feel for you.