Crickhollow

[Karri]

Crickhollow was a small house, originally built as the hideaway of Brandy Hall. The house was hidden by a thick hedge, inside which was a belt of low trees. Passing through the narrow gate in the hedge, the travelers crossed “a wide circle of lawn” along a green path. There were apparently gardens both in front and back, for when the Black Riders entered the gate, Fatty saw them “creep from the garden”; and escaping out the back he also ran “through the garden.”

The house was “long and low, with no upper story; and it had a low, rounded roof of turf, round shuttered windows, and a large round door.” A wide hall passed through the middle of the house form the front-door where the friends entered to the back-door through which Fatty Bolger ran from the Nazgul. Doors opened along both sides of the hall. Open door at the back opened into a firelit bath large enough to hold three steaming tubs, so while the hikers [Frodo, Sam, Pippin] bathed, Merry and Fatty prepared a second supper in the kitchen “on the other side of the passage.” The number and character of the other rooms in the house was not given, but given the shape and relatively small size of the house there could not have been many, There may not have even been a dining room, for supper was eaten at the kitchen table. It was, after all, a cozy cottage and did not need an elaborate layout.

- Courtesy of The Atlas of Middle-earth, by Karen Wynn Fonstad

Note from me: In the British Isles, the term garden can be used interchangeably with lawn. So, the gardens, if they come up, can be either garden or lawn.

[Karri]

And a map of the general Buckland area (courtesy of the Encyclopedia of Arda (http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/):

[Karri]

Also, Bag End is far enough away and Sam busy enough that it is probably only practical to bring Merry, Pippin, and possible Fatty into the story.

[Shadowfax]

Thank you karri! that makes more sense, I was looking at some stuff about it, but couldn't find much.
-Amanda

[Gwenneth]

WOW thanks Karri. I love the little pic of the house, it brings some story to mind...a lot of story actually. MORE bunny plot. I like this new destination!

And I don't mind it just being Merry and Pippin in the story. (I don't know who Fatty is though....)

I await your post!

[Joee]

Does Tolkien mention that Merry and/or Pippin lived in crickhollow after Frodo left or did we just kind of decide that this is where our group would be going? I have no problem writing this as their destination, I was just curious.

[Karri]

Yes, it is stated at the end of ROTK that Merry and Pippin lived at Crickhollow together after the war.

"Merry and Pippin lived together for some time at Crickhollow, and there was much coming and going between Buckland and Bag End. The two young Travellers cut a great dash in the Shire with their songs and their tales and their finery, and their wonderful parties."
- The Return of the King, Book VI, Chapter 9 - The Grey Havens, pg. 333

They both eventually marry, but I expect they lived in Crickhollow until then.

[Joee]

Okay, thanks Karri.

[LKK]

Gwenneth said:

(I don't know who Fatty is though....)

Fatty Bolger is one of LotR's forgotten hobbit characters. (I haven't reread about him lately, so this is all from memory.) Fatty is part of the original hobbit conspiracy to help Frodo escape from the Shire, working with Sam and Frodo.

Fatty provides food and shelter for Frodo and the others. When they leave the Shire heading for Bree, Fatty stays behind (since he isn't physically able to walk long distances with them) and keeps up the pretense that Frodo is still living in the Shire. Fatty keeps Frodo's house looking lived in. Does the hobbit equivalent of turning the lights on and off, taking in the mail, etc.

As Karri mentioned, Fatty has a run in with a Ringwraith while the Nazgul is searching the area for Frodo.

When Saruman takes over the Shire, Fatty Bolger is imprisoned. When Fatty is released after the Scouring of the Shire, the nickname Fatty is no longer appropriate, if I recall. But I think everyone still calls him Fatty regardless.

[Gwenneth]

Ah thanks much! That is much appreciated. I vaguely recall that now.

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