Hobbit-hole

Hobbits dig their houses into hillsides, banks and earth mounds rather than building up from the ground, and the result is a smial: at least one round window, a front door, and often a back one as well. Wealth shows in the digging. The grandest smials ramify into dozens of rooms with pantries able to supply a very large party, while poorer families make do with an old burrow or a rough tunnel and perhaps a single window. Brandy Hall, delved deep by the Brandybucks of Buckland, has three front doors, many side doors and something near a hundred windows. The Tooks keep the Great Smials, a many-tunnelled mansion with room for a hundred hobbits.