A Vancouver Island man has taken his love of J.R.R. Tolkien to an entirely new level by building his own Hobbit house.
Joe Thompson and a small army of friends built the house with 120 tones of stone, mostly river rock.
“When the Lord of the Rings came out, that is it. I said that is the perfect theme,” says Thompson.
The house is surrounded by carved faces, concrete statues and natural oddities, including unusually shaped trees.
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It has round windows and a heavy wooden door.
The house is held together by 280 bags of cement and about nine thousand dollars worth of structural steel.
It took Thompson six years to build.
“The whole process of building it was like going somewhere else, going into my own soul and spirit,” he says. “And I felt through the whole thing like I was being guided by nature, like I was being chosen to do this.”
WATCH: The making of the Vancouver Island Hobbit house
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