In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole,
filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy
hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Hobbit-hole, and
that means comfort." The Hobbit, Chapter 1, "An Unexpected Party",
J. R. R. Tolkien.