‘What is this if not magic?’ The Italian man living as a hobbit
Sep 06, 2021
2 minutes
Nicolas Gentile, a 37-year-old Italian pastry chef, did not just want to pretend to be a hobbit – he wanted to live like one. First, he bought a piece of land in the countryside of Bucchianico, near the town of Chieti in Abruzzo, where he and his wife started building their personal Shire from JRR Tolkien’s fictional Middle-earth.
Then, on 27 August, alongside a group of friends, a central plot element of The Lord of the Rings saga, into the volcano crater of Mount Vesuvius.
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