Fattest of the Dwarves - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Mithalwen · 12-22-2014, 02:54 PM

Welcome to the Downs Bombur and please note that this thread is in the mirth section and is not to be taken seriously. Squatter is a witty fellow and his essay is tongue in cheek. And if anything mocks the one note characterisation.

Inziladun · 12-22-2014, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Welcome to the Downs Bombur and please note that this thread is in the mirth section and is not to be taken seriously. Squatter is a witty fellow and his essay is tongue in cheek. And if anything mocks the one note characterisation.

Right. And if Forlong the Fat and 'Flourdumpling' Whitfoot took it in stride, Bombur can as well.

Nerwen · 12-23-2014, 03:40 AM

If "stride" is the right word...

Inziladun · 12-23-2014, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Nerwen

If "stride" is the right word...

Ok, take it with fries.

Nerwen · 12-24-2014, 12:47 AM

Now that's more like it.

Tuor in Gondolin · 12-31-2014, 09:27 AM

So who was relatively fatter, Bombur or Lalia Took?

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Lalia (Clayhanger) Took: (c. TA 2883 - TA 3002) was the wife of Thain Fortinbras Took II. She married in 2914, and her son Ferumbras was born two years later. Ferumbras never married, reportedly because nobody wanted Lalia as a mother-in-law. Lalia was so fat she couldn't walk and was confined to a wheelchair: she was widely known as Lalia the Great (or sometimes the Fat). In TA 3002 her attendant, Pearl Took, accidentally tipped Lalia out of her wheelchair into her garden, and she died. (Lalia isn't on the Took family tree published in The Lord of the Rings, but she is mentioned in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien.)

Mithalwen · 01-01-2015, 08:25 AM

Faramir Jones is an expert on Lalia. But Dwarves are generally larger so probably once they had reached the point of being so fat they could not move, Bombur probably was larger. But Lalia seems to have been less active and mobile through more of her life whereaa Bombur was more or less able to keep up. When he wasn't enchanted.

12-22-2014, 02:54 PM	#1
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	Welcome to the Downs Bombur and please note that this thread is in the mirth section and is not to be taken seriously. Squatter is a witty fellow and his essay is tongue in cheek. And if anything mocks the one note characterisation. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

12-23-2014, 03:40 AM	#3
Nerwen Wisest of the Noldor Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: ˙˙˙ssɐןƃ ƃuıʞooן ǝɥʇ ɥƃnoɹɥʇ Posts: 6,694	If "stride" is the right word... __________________ "Even Nerwen wasn't evil in the beginning." –Elmo.

12-24-2014, 12:47 AM	#5
Nerwen Wisest of the Noldor Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: ˙˙˙ssɐןƃ ƃuıʞooן ǝɥʇ ɥƃnoɹɥʇ Posts: 6,694	Now that's more like it. __________________ "Even Nerwen wasn't evil in the beginning." –Elmo.

01-01-2015, 08:25 AM	#7
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	Faramir Jones is an expert on Lalia. But Dwarves are generally larger so probably once they had reached the point of being so fat they could not move, Bombur probably was larger. But Lalia seems to have been less active and mobile through more of her life whereaa Bombur was more or less able to keep up. When he wasn't enchanted. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace