Littlemanpoet! I'm shocked! I thought you knew your Tolkien better than that! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
Of course, it is an obscure part of the book. The Neekerbreekers were the "evil relatives of the cricket" whose cry of neek-breek neek-breek drove everyone to distraction when the camped in the Midgewater Marshes. It was Sam, of course, who called them Neekerbreekers.
I thought it was a good metaphor for my usual contribution to the Downs. "There goes Birdie, Neek-Breekin' again."
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