22 Mum asked a priest to come round and say some prayers, because she said she had a bad feeling about the place, as if something nasty had happened there in the past. Then we decided to give the house a name. At first, Mum wanted to call it Bag End, after The Hobbit, because she said she’d always fancied living in a Hobbit hole; but there was no way this house was anything like a Hobbit hole. In the end, we called it Rivendell, after the place in Lord of the Rings where the Elves live and make everyone welcome. It turned out to be a fitting name, as there would soon be plenty of skaters sheltering in Rivendell.
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