Shawn Tribe has some suggestions here.
Is the use of flowers to adorn the altar common or permissible to the Eastern rites? I personally don't like flowers on the altar.
Something to think about: what would a hobbit church look like? And if such an edifice (including the altar) were integrated into Nature, would that be objectionable from a traditional Christian point of view?
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Are you going crazy? Hobbit churches? Well, Hobbit churches would be underground, which is okay when you think about the catecombs or even the chapels below mediaeval churches, e.g. in Cologne. St. Albert the Great has a very nice one, and it is cool in the summertime.
What the Hobbit church architect would need is a nice long hill to tunnel out, and put windows all along it. The result, from the outside, would be a hill with stained glass windows, which would look very cool.
Hrm, who has a more nature-integrated style of architecture in the popular imagination, elves? Druids? A stone altar that is adorned by vines and such?
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