Welcome in the Village of Book End
My name is Brodo Burrows and I happen to be a hobbit. I work as bartender in the Bottle's Bottom. It's a nice cozy bar in the land of fairy tales. The name of the bar is Bottle's Bottom but it got to my ear that some, of course only those of the vilest sort, call my place Hobo's Hole. I hate that nickname, not only is it disrespectful to me and the bar I make sure to keep clean and presentable but it's mean to my landlady Zelda Tolkien as well. But enough of that.
In contrast to anyone who badmouths the bar, Bottle's Bottom is ideal to come to relax after a stressful day at work. Comfortable chairs and great music are the main ingredients for a relaxing atmosphere. Of course, we offer a variety of tasty meals but our forte is the broad selection of alcoholic beverages and cocktails. Here we serve Pixiecolada sprinkled with fairy dust, Will'o'Wispey, Bloody Mary (we serve two versions, one is your average tomato juice with alcohol drink, the other is for sudden visitors from horror realm), wonderberry wine, butterbeer, sprite spirits. You name it.
As the fifth son of a lineless hobbit from the Hobbit and Lord of the rings fame (if you can call it that way) I had no possibility of making it big in my home world but then I met this charming lady and heard her offer. And here I am, the first hobbit to have set his furry foot in The Land of Ever After ever. Sorta funny how a fantasy backgrounder can get into a different world, huh?
Bottle's Bottom is located in the lovely village called The Village of Book End. It's on the Lenore lane, to be precise. Lenore lane is only one of the five streets that make the village. Then there is the large and fancy La Bayadẻre boulevard with the Glass Slipper, the Gingerbread boutique and the Red Shoe Studio and Dance Club, the Lang avenue where you can found the Beanstalk Bakery and the Found Folklore bookshop, next to it is the Beige brick road. The last and smallest of them is the Three Charms street. The big avenues branch into a number of smaller, lesser known streets. For example the Beige Brick road leads into the Lemuria lane or the Lang avenue ends in the Cobbler's street.
There is the Asbjoernsen and Moe pub. Small place where they serve very cheap beer. There are dozens of flies flying around, though. You better visit the Mad Hatter's Tea Shoppe and Haberdashery at the Pentamerone plaza. The plaza is the large and circular centre of the village. Under your feet you can see a gorgeous mosaic in the shape of a five-pointed star. It's made of colourful stones and glass. Like I said, the plaza is the centre of the village, all five main streets end here.
If you want to visit my landlady in the fancy school built in the palace over there on the hill, you have to take the Lenore lane.
At first I was afraid I would feel homesick but this place shares some similarities to my homestoryworld. There are humans, elves and dwarves, kings and mages and even dragons. Not that I missed those scaly rascals but I must admit some of them are remarkably well behaved and some breeds are kept as cattle for meat and egg production. There is even a place called Soria Moria. I wonder if this is the place where the dwarves live in.
Author's note: So a little bit of worldbuilding. As you can see Zelda opened a bar, to get some extra cash so she doesn't have to 'friendly visit' Smaug's gold stash again. XD I really enjoy referencing all the famous and less famous stories. EAH is wonderful franchise for a storygeek like myself. :3