30-year-old Ashley Yates is not a hobbit. The Bedford, England, is a design and construction expert that's much too big to be a hobbit, although rumor has it his feet might be just as hairy--but despite these shortcomings, he decided to build a "hobbit hole" in his garden, a project that took almost a year to complete. After a tree died in the yard, he decided a hole was just the thing to take its place!