hearthfire
Fireplace's warm glow
Hearthfire is the fire burning in a hearth—the fireplace at the center of a home.
The word carries connotations of warmth, domesticity, and familial comfort: We gathered around the hearthfire on winter evenings.
It appears in fantasy literature and historical fiction to evoke premodern settings where the hearth was central to household life.
Goddess of hearth
- sacred flamePerpetual religious fire
- eternal flameContinuously burning memorial light
- templeSacred worship structure
- goddessFemale sacred being
ritual · offering · altar · guardian · protection · household gods · ancestral · shrine
One's personal residence
inglenook · poker · kindling · logs · embers · grate · fender · andirons
Vesta
Goddess of hearth
- sacred flamePerpetual religious fire
- eternal flameContinuously burning memorial light
- templeSacred worship structure
goddess · ritual · offering · altar · guardian · protection · household gods · ancestral · shrine · devotion
home
One's personal residence
mantle · inglenook · poker · kindling · logs · embers · grate · fender · andirons · homestead
campfire
Outdoor fire for gathering
- shelterProtected place or structure
- primitiveIn earliest form
- wildernessUncultivated, uninhabited natural region
tinder · friction · flint · steel · warmth · cooking · light · protection · cave · pioneer
Tolkien
inn · mead hall · storytelling · bard · legend · folklore · gathering · hospitality · wanderer · traveler
hearthfirecampfire
Outdoor fire for gathering
wildfire · bonfire · wilderness · the wild · exposure
hearthfirecold
Low temperature state
frost · chill · ice · bitter cold · frozen wasteland
hearthfireexile
Banishment from homeland
homelessness · banishment · wandering · displacement · rootlessness
hearth, fire, hearths, fires, fired, firing, fiery, fireside, fireplace