![]() ![]() It was sort of my design, but then he refined the structure of it to make what I build. I came up with what I wanted, like a proposal, and then I had a structural engineer check the structure and I had this specific guy come up with the final sort of design of it. The loading requirements for the house are tremendous because of the dirt load and then they have to impose a snow load on it. “Any substantial amount of dirt on top of a structure is a huge load. Between his years of experience on the job site and his education in civil engineering, he had a good idea of what it would take to make this project a success. Costigan is in the construction business himself - specifically, in building reinforced concrete superstructures for residential high rises. That's what ultimately pushed him to begin to think about how he would build a real, inhabitable hobbit house. Basically, it was a lot of stupid ideas.” A House Fit for a Hobbit ![]() #THE HOBBIT FRODO HOW TO#People who are not involved in real construction don't really know anything about how to build anything. Then I found people who had some crazy idea of how to build one. “When I went online I couldn't find anyone who built one. “After I saw the movie, I said somebody had to have built one of these already,” he said. ![]() That started a whole chain of events to what I created here.” “I started to think about how to build a real one for people to live in. “I got a whole bunch of comments about why aren't I living in it, am I renting it out, when am I going to build more of them, and all this other stuff,” said Costigan. That was the original house I built,” he said.Ĭostigan shared the building process online at, which elicited a positive response. “The way the property is in the back kind of lends itself to an earth shelter thing, so I built the concrete hobbit shed. Of Bag End, the unique home that was brought to life in the movie, Costigan said, “I thought it was the coolest house I had ever seen.” About 12 years ago, Costigan approached his wife about building a shed in his yard of the same design. And that's no surprise, as Jim Costigan, mastermind behind the Hobbit House was inspired by the 2001 movie, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, to build this whimsical structure in his home shire of Pawling, N.Y. “Demand for this memorabilia is extraordinarily high and the scale and quality of this remarkable collection is truly a once in a lifetime opportunity for fans and collectors,” he added.It's a house fit for a hobbit-a dwelling of which Bilbo Baggins would certainly approve. “It has been more than a decade since the first of the trilogy films was released and in that time only a handful of items from these films have ever been publicly offered for sale,” Martin Nolan, executive director of Julien’s Auctions, said in a statement. The hairy feet are estimated to fetch between $15,000 and $30,000. Props from Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy will be up for sale at Julien’s Auctions on December 5, including a pair of prosthetic hairy Hobbit feet worn by one of the film’s main characters, Samwise Gamgee. #THE HOBBIT FRODO MOVIE#REUTERS/Julien's Auctions/Handout via Reutersįans of Peter Jackson’s epic fantasy film series “The Lord of the Rings” will have the opportunity to bid on rare movie memorabilia, a Beverly Hills auction house said on Monday. A pair of prosthetic hairy Hobbit feet are shown in this handout photo provided by Julien's Auction in Beverly Hills, California October 7, 2013. ![]()
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