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| Bag End, hobbit home of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins on September 22, the day of the big birthday party in Hobbiton. The circle, a dominant shape in Shire architecture, is a symbol of the Monad. click - go to Ian Holm/Bag End Note the West and East points of the drawing room, seen from the point of view of a visitor standing at the front door entrance, looking across the room into the kitchen. Since every room of the hobbit hole is considered from it's own doorway, we observe this busy little room as an energy hive unto itself. The far point pulls the eye into the room beyond the fireplace. The furniture arrangement is managed to encourage a visitor to pass through the mid-section of this room, straight to the well stocked kitchen. Nonetheless, there is plenty of energy at work because this room takes in and expends fuel [energy as a pure, undedicated raw material] on both sides of the main traffic lane, along each wall. We observe most external fuel represented by two windows set in the West wall, balanced by the hearth opposite them, where fuel [wood, leaves, etc.] is collected and burned. The window to the West of the center of the room is "full of energy" - there is a healthy garden and a road just beyond it, not to mention a fabulous view past that, fully enlarged at the Baggins Party page. The Western point is also used as a door late on the evening of the big party, after Bilbo dramatically bids farewell to all his friends by disappearing right before their eyes. The Baggins gardner, Samwise Gamgee, eavesdrops while Gandalf the Grey and Frodo organize their plan for the disposition of the One Ring. Gandalf hears something outside and swiftly reaches through the open window, lifts Sam up, and pulls him into the room. The old saying, "a better door than a window," may hold some meaning for Sam. The Western "door" can serve a mystic purpose. It may 'open' the way, unite opposites, or address subtle energy at an other worldly level. It helps determine the core partnership in this story, the friendship shared by Frodo and Sam. We know, from a previous look through this cozy room, maps of the Lonely Mountain and sketches of Middle-earth [yet unexplored] are stockpiled in the SW area of this room, just south of the window, near the table where they are easy to find. We surmise these papers are probabaly for inclusion in Bilbo's ongoing book or to jog his memory and verify subtle, finer details that concern language variation. This area of Bag End rests neatly between the part of the room where we expect to find Bilbo's resources and reference material [exact SW corner], and his "door to the unknown," where the Western window is located. The mantle and fire on the East wall help move the story of the One Ring along. Bilbo's strength of character is suggested by the portraits of his upright parents, Bungo and Belladonna. We watch Bilbo struggle as he places the envelope with the Ring above the fire... does he actually put the envelope on the mantle for Frodo before he heads off to Rivendell? When the Ring is later recovered by Frodo, from a hiding place, Gandalf throws the envelope into the fire [symbol of the forge], withdraws the Ring, and asks Frodo what he can see. The spirit of the "West" is consistently by Tolkien, and reinforced with this simple ritual. The magic moment is summoned as Bilbo moves to the "West" part of the room and reads the words on the band. The Hobbit represents childlike innocence in this scene, directly in contact with adventure, danger, and all the fantastic experiences ahead of him - the silver waters, white swan ships, and later, a far country to be prompted into a waking mind. This East wall fireplace has the same "warm" impact in the design of Hogwarts School, in the Harry Potter series. Gryffindor common room deposits the fireplace [Christmas Tree and gifts for the holiday season] in the same place as Bag End. On Christmas morning, Harry opens a gift from an annonymous benefactor placed "under the tree" by the Eastern wall. The cloak of invisibility - very rare indeed - is able to grant many of the same benefits as the One Ring. There is a sympathetic chord between a hiding cape gift and the Ring of Power that leads the Fellowship of the Ring on the great journey that will end with the destruction of the Dark Lord. The Fellowhip is destined to meet in Rivendell and rest in golden Lothlorien. * Dowser note: apparations tend to materialize in the center of a room and along the Western wall [often wires enter from outside.] POWER ZONE |
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