A house for things that have one use, but cannot be thrown away.
In Hobbit speech, a mathom is a curious thing, a gift, a relic, an heirloom, that sits on the mantelpiece and asks to be looked at. Bilbo's hole at Bag End was full of them. The Mathom-house at Michel Delving made a museum of them.
NeedfulThings.be is our Flemish Mathom-house. We don't compete with mass-market chains and we don't pretend to stock everything. We carry the things a thoughtful Tolkien reader, a roleplayer, a miniature painter, a jeweller's eye would actually want, and we take the trouble to explain why each piece is worth a place in your hole-in-the-hill.
"It was a tendency of hobbit-kind to give presents to other people on their own birthdays. Not very expensive ones, as a rule, and not so lavishly as on this occasion; but it was not a bad system." J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, Prologue
Visit us in Mechelen, or order online with Bancontact, Payconiq or card. Every parcel leaves the shop wrapped in kraft, sealed with a wax-stamp key, and arrives the way a mathom should arrive, like it has been waiting for you.