by Glen Swartwout Everything grows at The Shire… well almost everything. And some things grow faster than we might want, like grass and vines around orchard and garden plantings. Cultivation is a process requiring our regular attention to help our favorite tasty food plants grow and prosper… Orchards: The orchards are planted as food […]
by Glen Swartwout Metal is useful for many tools. When kept well oiled in our ‘marine’ environment, these tools are one of the most precious and lasting sources of utility and value we have. They are precious. We paint bright colors on their handles so we do not lose them or forget to bring […]
by Glen Swartwout The Shire is located adjacent to the Burning Land of Mount Doom, otherwise known as Kilauea, the most active volcano on Earth… The tropical sun, also shines its celestial fire down upon this land, providing a year round growing season, balancing out the sometimes intense rainfall that keeps it a lush, […]
by Glen Swartwout Dwarves and earth hobbits have an affinity for digging holes in the ground. This is very useful for harvesting rock and soil, planting trees, building gardens, roads and paths, as well as providing material for rock and mortar construction of foundations and pillars, or dry laid rock construction such as traditional Hawaiian stone […]
by Glen Swartwout Humans and water hobbits have an affinity for water. While The Shire rainforest environment famously supplies over 11 feet of rain water each year, keeping the aina lush and green, and blooming round the seasons, there is no naturally occurring surface water feature in the lands of Puna, except during floods, of […]
by Glen Swartwout Wood elves enjoy the remote reaches of deep rainforest, while wood hobbits rarely stray very far from comfort of the The Shire, but prefer to inhabit the cool forest edges. These Middle Earth dwellers are caretakers of forest glen and glade… they take care in how they interact with the trees […]
by Glen Swartwout Crevices in the earth form near the Rift Zone of the most active volcano on Earth, as the land to our South (the unstable side of this fault line) sinks under the massive weight of the newest land on Earth, being deposited daily whenever the lava is flowing into the ocean… […]
by Glen Swartwout “I’m off to the Lava Tree…” said one hobbit to his fellow. “Mind you don’t fall in!” came a retort of caution…. — You see, lava tree moulds are holes in the earth that can easily be ten feet deep and up to two or three feet wide, a mould formed […]
by Glen Swartwout Lava tubes are fun! Not to mention intriguing entrances to the underworld of the Mu… Sculpting underground rooms is perhaps considered less fun by many, but there are those of us who enjoy this sort of challenge! Just look at the underground chapel at the Damanhur community in Italy! We are […]
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