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**The Saucepan Man** · 02-25-2003, 10:00 PM

Since there were already so many great names from or inspired by the books, I decided to go for something non-Tolkien, but still fantasy-related.

The Faraway Tree books by Enid Blyton had been my favourite books as a child pre-The Hobbit and, at the time I registered, I was reading them to my daughter, So, I chose the name of the character in them that appealed to me the most, the inimitable Saucepan Man.

It has since dawned on me that there is a vague LotR connection, with Sam and his pots and pans.

02-25-2003, 10:00 PM	#11
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,390	Since there were already so many great names from or inspired by the books, I decided to go for something non-Tolkien, but still fantasy-related. The Faraway Tree books by Enid Blyton had been my favourite books as a child pre-The Hobbit and, at the time I registered, I was reading them to my daughter, So, I chose the name of the character in them that appealed to me the most, the inimitable Saucepan Man. It has since dawned on me that there is a vague LotR connection, with Sam and his pots and pans. __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!