Hobbit-hole

Hobbit-holes, otherwise called Smials, were the preferred dwellings of Hobbits in the Shire. 
== History ==
They were holes dug into hillsides, banks, earth mounds or downs, and usually had a minimum of one round window, a front door, and sometimes a back door. It was primarily the wealthy Hobbit families that built spacious and luxurious versions of a Hobbit-hole. Brandy Hall was an example of a deeply delved Smial, having three front doors, many side-doors, and around one-hundred windows. Bag End, the home of Bilbo Baggins and later the Sackville-Bagginses, and then Sam Gamgee, can be considered a large and ramifying Smial. It was an expansive Hobbit-hole with many windows; a large circular green front and back door, and an ample number of rooms; as well as the famously renowned pantries which supplied food for many a party or celebration.
On the other hand, the poor lived in old burrows or primitive diggings, with perhaps only a single window. An example of this was Bagshot Row. The famous Took family lived in the Great Smials, their ancestral home, a many-tunneled mansion suitable for a hundred Hobbits.
During the Scouring of the Shire, many Hobbit-holes were destroyed and replaced with wooden shacks., , Book Six, Ch. VII: "The Scouring of the Shire"
== Translations ==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Hobbitgat
Albanian 	Vrima Hobitit
Amharic 	ሆቢት ጉድጓድ
Arabic 	حفرة هوبيت
Armenian 	Հոբիթներ անցք
Azerbaijani 	Hobbit deşik
Basque 	Hobbit zuloa
Belarusian Cyrillic	Нара хобіта
Bengali 	হবিট গর্ত
Bosnian 	Hobitska rupa
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Дупка на Хобити
Catalan 	Forat Hòbbit
Chinese 	哈比人洞穴
Croatian 	Hobit rupa
Czech 	Hobití nora
Danish 	Hobbithul
Dutch 	Hobbithol
Esperanto 	Hobito-truo
Finnish 	Hobitti reikä
French 	Trou de Hobbit
Frisian 	Hobbitgat (Western)
Galician 	Agujero Hobbit
Georgian 	ჰობიტის ხვრელი
German 	Hobbitlöch
Greek 	Χόμπιτ τρύπα
Gujarati 	હોબિટ ગુફા
Hebrew 	הוביט מחפורת
Hindi 	हॉबिट छेद
Hungarian 	Hobbit-lyuk
Icelandic 	Hobbitahola
Indonesian 	Lubang Hobbit
Irish Gaelic 	Hobbit-poll
Italian 	Caverna Hobbit
Japanese 	ホビットの穴
Kannada 	ಹೊಬ್ಬಿಟ್ ಹೋಲ್
Kazakh 	Хоббит тесік (Cyrillic) Xobbït tesik (Latin)
Konkani 	हॉबिट बुराक
Korean 	호빗 구멍
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Хоббит тешиги
Latin 	Hobbit foraminis
Latvian 	Hobita bedre
Lithuanian 	Hobito skylė
Luxembourgish 	Hobbit Lach
Macedonian Cyrillic	Хобитска дупка
Malayalam 	ഹോബിറ്റ് ദ്വാരം
Malaysian 	Lubang hobbit
Maltese 	Toqba hobbit
Marathi 	हॉबिट गुहा
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Хоббит нүх
Nepalese 	होबिट प्वाल
Norwegian 	Hobbithull
Persian 	سوراخ هابیت
Polish 	Dziura hobbita
Portuguese 	Buraco Hobbit
Punjabi 	ਹੌਬਿਟ ਮੋਰੀ
Romanian 	Gaura Hobbit
Russian 	Нора хоббита
Sanskrit 	हॉबिट छिद्रम्
Scottish Gaelic 	Hobbit-toll
Serbian 	Хобитска рупа (Cyrillic) Hobitska rupa (Latin)
Sicilian 	Funnu Hobbit
Sinhalese 	හොබිට් කුහරය
Slovak 	Hobitia diera
Slovenian 	Hobitova luknja
Spanish 	Agujero Hobbit
Swahili 	Hobbit-shimo
Swedish 	Hoberhål
Tajik Cyrillic 	Сӯрохи Хоббит
Tamil 	ஹொபிட் துளை
Tatar 	Хоббит тишеге
Telugu 	హాబిట్ రంధ్రం
Thai 	ถ้ําฮ็อบบิต
Turkish 	Hobbit delik
Turkmen 	Hobbit deşigi
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Гобітова нора
Urdu 	ہابٹ چھید
Uzbek 	Ҳоббит-тешик (Cyrillic) Hobbit-teshik (Latin)
Vietnamese 	lỗ Hobbit
Welsh 	Hobbit Twll
Yiddish 	האָבביט לאָך
== References ==
Category:Buildings and structures
Category:The Shire
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