@crazy-write said: I went to the Tolkien exhibition in Oxford and it had an early manuscript where Thorin was named Gandalf and Gandalf was named … Blorfindel
I saw that too & it was like a glimpse of a bizarre alternate timeline
master blorfindel said not to leave you and i dont mean to, bingo bolger-baggins, i dont mean to
*Aragorn voice* for Bingo
Sorry I think you meant to say:
*Peregrin Boffin voice* for Bingo
wait so, I’ve read that Frodo was originally the name given to one of the other hobbits. if Aragorn was at one point going to be Peregrin… does that mean Pippin was going to be Frodo??
It was kind of complicated how the original hobbits all developed. Original Frodo kind of disappeared, this dude Odo stuck around for aaages and a lot of his lines ended up going to Pippin but it wasn’t a case of Tolkien just changing Odo’s name.
Aragorn was originally called Trotter instead of Strider. Tolkien wrote a bunch of dialog with him and I think was still playing with his background and real name when they got to Rivendell. By that point iirc Pippin was present but was called Fastred. Tolkien eventually decided Trotter was a human instead of a hobbit and so abandoned hobbit-y names like Peregrin, which he then gave to Pippin (and briefly considered calling him Perry).
Uh,,, hope that makes sense. Anyway the History of Middle Earth is fucking wild.
I’m so glad we don’t live in the timeline where Pippin’s name is Perry or Fastred bcos those both sound like asshole names.
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