[Knight of Gondor]

I kid you not, good people of the Barrow-Downs. Our Lord of the Rings Sunday School study group was discussing how Tolkien may have taken/used names of the peoples of Western Kentucky land in his books. (Names like Barefoot, and Baggins) And that he was also fascinated by the fact that Western Kentuckians grew "pipe-weed". (It's true)

Well, when I mentioned it to my Mom, she said that I had (or, DID have before he died) a "first cousin once-removed" named...BILBO! I about fell over, but I was sitting in our car at the time, so such a feat would have proved difficult. Cool, huh?