Belladonna Took - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lord of Angmar · 12-12-2003, 07:16 PM

I did not know where to post this insight other than as a new thread. It is a brief and trivial point, but one that had bothered me.

Belladonna Took is Bilbo Baggins's mother. It always bothered me that this was her name, since Belladonna is so obviously a word of Italian origin, and thus is at odds with the name scheme of the hobbits, and with the language patterns of Middle Earth itself. Belladonna literally means beautiful woman in Italian.

12-12-2003, 07:16 PM	#1
Lord of Angmar Tyrannus Incorporalis Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: the North Posts: 833	Belladonna Took I did not know where to post this insight other than as a new thread. It is a brief and trivial point, but one that had bothered me. Belladonna Took is Bilbo Baggins's mother. It always bothered me that this was her name, since Belladonna is so obviously a word of Italian origin, and thus is at odds with the name scheme of the hobbits, and with the language patterns of Middle Earth itself. Belladonna literally means beautiful woman in Italian. __________________ ...where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defence.