Thread: Your doom lies in your name, not in yourself....
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Old 01-17-2003, 05:49 PM   #16
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Tolkein may have adapted Lobelia's name to "Lobelia" as a sort of a phonological joke.
Might there be any connection between Bilbo's favourite relative and one of the insults that he hurls to the spiders of Mirkwood: "Lazy Lob"?
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