Enthusiast created a stunning bookshelf door for his wife styled like a hobbit home from The Lord of the Rings

Love for fictional worlds sometimes goes beyond posters on the wall or figurines on a shelf – it starts literally reshaping the house. A round door, green grass on the roof, a smoking pipe by the entrance – all of this can materialize in the hallway of an ordinary home, as long as the owner has some skill and enough free time.

That's exactly what happened with one enthusiast who built his wife a bookshelf shaped like a round hobbit door and shared the result with the Tolkien fan community on Reddit.

The shelf started out bare, but once his wife took on the decorating, it turned into a proper little corner of the Shire. The round door, wood carving, and live plants around it create the feeling that an entrance to an underground hobbit home is really hidden somewhere in the apartment.

She wasn't sure whether to keep the decor strictly Tolkien-themed or mix in other books and knickknacks, so the final look ended up being a bit of both.

Among the decorations are some nice editions of Tolkien works, though not a first edition. On the advice of one commenter, the couple also repainted the wall around the shelf, and the result turned out noticeably more striking than the original.

The doormat deserves special mention, with its line "where the hell have you been, loca?" – the iconic phrase from Twilight spoken by Emmett Cullen. The mashup of the vampire saga and Middle-earth got a good laugh out of part of the audience. Someone even imagined dwarves or elves saying that line to Gandalf after a long separation.

Commenters suggested taking things further by painting the Ring inscription around the edge of the shelf using glow-in-the-dark paint, and the builder said he liked the idea.

Given that the build took quite a while but, according to the maker, wasn't technically difficult, there's a real chance we'll see a glowing Elvish inscription on the furniture in a future update.

The hobbit door has long been one of the most recognizable images from Middle-earth, and now it's also become an excuse for a bit of home renovation.