Trotter, the Ranger Hobbit! - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Halfir · 05-03-2002, 05:48 AM

I am very much down on my knees thanking the One that we avoided having a hobbit Trotter, along with a Bingo -Bolger Baginns et.al. What is interesting, I think, is that when you read the earlier drafts and then see the names that Tolkien unltimately settled upon, the 'rightness'of that final choice shines through. Ultimately that 'philological nose' that had stood him in such good stead won through.

05-03-2002, 05:48 AM	#22
Halfir Animated Skeleton Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Thailand Posts: 41	I am very much down on my knees thanking the One that we avoided having a hobbit Trotter, along with a Bingo -Bolger Baginns et.al. What is interesting, I think, is that when you read the earlier drafts and then see the names that Tolkien unltimately settled upon, the 'rightness'of that final choice shines through. Ultimately that 'philological nose' that had stood him in such good stead won through. __________________ I have not fed my readers with straw, neither will I be confuted with stubble

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