Literary Residences - Round 3

 

Literary Residences

We've all read about the most magical, wonderful places to reside. But if you could choose.... which one would you pick? And now, thanks to Bracket of Champions, you can do just that. VOTE!

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Round 2

There were a hundred and forty-two staircases at Hogwarts: wide, sweeping ones; narrow, rickety ones; some that led somewhere different on a Friday; some with a vanishing step halfway up that you had to remember to jump. Then there were doors that wouldn’t open unless you asked politely, or tickled them in exactly the right place, and doors that weren’t really doors at all, but solid walls just pretending…

- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling, 1997

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was home to countless young British witches and wizards for nine months of the year, the most notable of which were Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, Hermione Granger, and the true hero: Neville Longbottom.

“It was a large, handsome, stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills—and in front, a stream of some natural importance was swelled into greater, but without any artificial importance. Its banks were neither formal, nor falsely adorned. Elizabeth was delighted. She had never seen a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by awkward taste… to be mistress of Pemberley might be something!”

- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, 1813

Pemberley is the home of Fitzwilliam Darcy, the male central character of Pride and Prejudice and the foil/love interest of Elizabeth Bennet. At Pemberley, Lizzie grows in the realization that she may have been wrong about Mr. Darcy after all.

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The Castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea, and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach… in the Great Hall of Cair Paravel—that wonderful hall with the ivory roof and the west hall hung with peacock’s feathers and the eastern door which looks towards the sea, in the presence of all their friends and to the sound of trumpets, Aslan solemnly crowned them…

- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis, 1950

Cair Paravel was the home of the human kings and queens of Narnia. Although it fell into ruin after the reigns of the Pevensies, it was eventually rebuilt by Caspian, whose descendants lived in it until the last battle of the Free Narnians.

"And so at last they came to the Last Homely House, and found its doors flung open wide… In those days of our tale there were still some people who had both elves and heroes of the North for ancestors, and Elrond the master of the house was their chief… His house was perfect whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singling, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Evil things did not come into that valley."

- The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937

Rivendell was the home of Elrond in the Misty Mountains and was the resting place of Bilbo Baggins and his dwarf companions on their way to the Misty Mountains. Some 80 years later, a secret council would meet there to determine the fate of the One Ring.

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