'Hobbit houses' that might just save a Moldovan village

They call Rogojeni the "hobbit village", and its little half-buried houses, built to resist Moldova's cold winters and hot ...
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Hobbit Village may be Moscow’s next tourist attraction

MOSCOW, Russia – Though much of “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy tells of adventures away from the pastoral and idyllic Shire, a district in the Moscow region hopes travelers will pay to stay in a hobb ...
Houston Chronicle

Tolkien fans camp out in Norwegian hobbit village

OSLO, Norway - About 800 fans of the fantasy trilogy Lord of The Rings camped overnight on Sunday in a Norwegian "hobbit" village in freezing weather -- an unorthodox queue for tickets for the second ...
Yahoo

Take a look inside this 'Hobbit'-inspired tiny home village that's already made $120k on Airbnb

Joe McCarthy (left) and his nephew Justin Kersey at the entrance of their "Hobbit"- styled village.Justin Kersey Joe McCarthy and Justin Kersey created a "Hobbit"-inspired tiny home village for Airbnb ...
The Hill

‘The Lord of the Rings’ star Elijah Wood praises man who has chosen to live as a hobbit

Nicolas Gentile, a 37-year-old Italian pastry chef with a degree in geology, lives like a fictional hobbit with his wife and two children. Gentile hopes to further develop his land into a hobbit ...
Taipei Times

‘Hobbit houses’ might just save a village in Moldova

The traditional dugout houses have put the shrinking settlement on the tourist map and locals hope they might also help to save it. “We do fear that the village could disappear, considering that there ...