[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
RE: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will happen
- To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
- Subject: RE: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will happen
- From: "DA Forsyth" <iwrtech (at) iwr.ru.ac.za>
- Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:06:21 +0200
- Organization: IWR
- Priority: normal
- References: <961092e10807310940w427b9000k70e76bd0e0b902f8 (at) mail.gmail.com>, <A118035B8FE00C4081E2EA8016E8608E015D6BC1 (at) Verona.namerica.idexxi.com>
On 31 Jul 2008 , Manocchia, Robert entreated about
"RE: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight na":
> How about find a name so obscure in the Silmarillion that even the
> lawyers couldn't find it.
>
> Seriously though, how about hobbiton.
that is a placename. 'Hobbiton on Hogsback', about 100km from where
I am (you can see the Hogsback mountains on a clear day), I've been
there, and that is where Tolkien grew up, ergo 'Hobbit's in the book
--
DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor
Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research
http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/