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Your doom lies in your name, not in yourself....

01-17-2003, 05:49 PM

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Quote:

Tolkein may have adapted Lobelia's name to "Lobelia" as a sort of a phonological joke.

Might there be any connection between Bilbo's favourite relative and one of the insults that he hurls to the spiders of Mirkwood: "Lazy Lob"?

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