RE: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will happen

["Everett, Vernon" <Vernon.Everett (at) woodside.com.au>]

I thought he grew up in Bloemfontein?
 

-----Original Message-----
From: DA Forsyth [mailto:iwrtech (at) iwr.ru.ac.za] 
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 9:06 PM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will
happen

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




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