The project “La Contea Gentile”, an enchanted place suspended between dream and reality inspired by the saga “The Lord of the Rings” by JRR Tolkien
Sometimes even the most unthinkable dreams come true, if you really believe them. Especially if there is a real Hobbit like Nicolas Gentile – a thirty-seven year-old from Bucchianico, a small town in the province of Chieti, passionate about fantasy sagas from an early age – gentle, tenacious and determined just like the “half men” of the imaginary people protagonist of the novel “The Lord of the Rings” by JRR Tolkien. Why Nicolas, when he takes off his clothes as a pastry chef and geologist, really lives like a hobbit: he dresses like a hobbit, thinks like a hobbit, eats like a hobbit.
So why not also build a “smial”, a typical house of Tolkenian half-men, in which to live? And why not also a real enchanted shire, made of many hobbit houses, where to live and share a peaceful and convivial life together? This is how Nicolas began to give shape to his apparently impossible dream
of bringing to life a world that does not exist, creating the project “The Gentile Shire”. Today that dream could become real thanks to the crowdfunding campaign launched by the brave and tenacious Abruzzo hobbit on Indiegogo entitled “Let’s build the Gentile shire by Nicolas Gentile”.
An ambitious but concrete project, of which a prototype of a hobbit house already exists, it was built on a land of over 2 hectares surrounded by the beautiful and serene hills in the Chieti countryside, a land that in the future will have to host the entire Gentile Shire. >. In short, it is a true reproduction of Middle-earth, which, however, will not be a simple reenactment of that of the novel, nor a tourist village. The Gentile Shire should rather be >, as Nicolas likes to repeat.
Because >. And this is precisely the charm and strength of La Contea Gentile project: believing that an enchanted world, different from today’s one, can really exist, a world where you can live in a simpler and more human way, recovering a
lifestyle that is truly on a human scale. Or better, a half-man.
More info: indiegogo.com
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