that Bolger v Lumpkin choice

coolismo · 01-17-2002, 04:01 PM

OK who's your favourite Fatty? Fatty Bolger or Fatty Lumpkin. Lately I have definately been a Bolger man but on cold afternoons I verr more towards a fondness for Lumpkin. Bolger definately the braver and more fleet of foot and temper but Lumpkin more of a yang type I suppose. Says a lot about the person as to whom of the Fattys they prefer...

bropous · 01-17-2002, 09:00 PM

I'm more of a Fredegar Bolger fan. Little guy had some guts and kept his wits when the Nazgul hit the house at Crickhollow!

***Sister Golden Hair*** · 01-17-2002, 09:13 PM

I've always been fond of the name Fatty Lumpkin. When my son was a baby going through that plump period, I used to call him that.

afro-elf · 01-17-2002, 09:20 PM

How old is the lad now?

***Sister Golden Hair*** · 01-17-2002, 09:27 PM

Almost twenty.

coolismo · 01-18-2002, 07:58 AM

i'm glad this a balanced thread. I wonder which of them would win in a fight. Would Bolger's natural smarts prevail or would Lumpkin go in for the early kill, overwhelming his opponent with spirited strength? My heart says Lumpkin but my head says Bolger.

Kirinki54 · 01-18-2002, 05:39 PM

Are we comparing a Hobbit and a Pony here? Rather odd...

Let me introduce my favorite fatty instead; Barliman Butterbur. I wonder if Tolkien modelled him on someone he did not like in the real world? He is IIRC the really only ridiculous guy in LotR.

luinilwen · 01-21-2002, 10:09 AM

hey hey hey fatty lumpkin is not a pony. bill is a pony. lumpkin is the pony. not a horse person but i have to go with little fatty lumpkin

he took care of the hobbitses ponys he did

Foul_Dwimmerlaik · 01-21-2002, 04:09 PM

Kirinki, Galdalf doesn't share your low opinion of Butterbur!

01-17-2002, 04:01 PM	#1
coolismo Enting Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: south england Posts: 93	that Bolger v Lumpkin choice OK who's your favourite Fatty? Fatty Bolger or Fatty Lumpkin. Lately I have definately been a Bolger man but on cold afternoons I verr more towards a fondness for Lumpkin. Bolger definately the braver and more fleet of foot and temper but Lumpkin more of a yang type I suppose. Says a lot about the person as to whom of the Fattys they prefer...

01-17-2002, 09:00 PM	#2
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	I'm more of a Fredegar Bolger fan. Little guy had some guts and kept his wits when the Nazgul hit the house at Crickhollow! __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

01-17-2002, 09:20 PM	#4
afro-elf Hoplite Nomad Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 3,931	How old is the lad now? __________________ About Eowyn, Does anyone know what her alias Dernhelm means? She was kown as dernhelm because of her exclaimation when she realized that the rider's headgear was heavy and obscured her sight. 'Dern Helm" Culled from Entmoot From Kirinski 57 and Wayfarer.

01-18-2002, 07:58 AM	#6
coolismo Enting Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: south england Posts: 93	ye yes i'm glad this a balanced thread. I wonder which of them would win in a fight. Would Bolger's natural smarts prevail or would Lumpkin go in for the early kill, overwhelming his opponent with spirited strength? My heart says Lumpkin but my head says Bolger.

01-18-2002, 05:39 PM	#7
Kirinki54 Elven Warrior Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: European Union Posts: 463	Are we comparing a Hobbit and a Pony here? Rather odd... Let me introduce my favorite fatty instead; Barliman Butterbur. I wonder if Tolkien modelled him on someone he did not like in the real world? He is IIRC the really only ridiculous guy in LotR. __________________ 'They need more gardens,' said Legolas. 'The houses are dead, and there is too little here that grows and is glad. If Aragorn comes into his own, the people of the Wood shall bring him birds that sing and trees that do not die.'

01-17-2002, 09:13 PM	#3
*Sister Golden Hair* Queen of Nargothrond Administrator Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Akron, Ohio - USA Posts: 7,121	I've always been fond of the name Fatty Lumpkin. When my son was a baby going through that plump period, I used to call him that.

01-17-2002, 09:27 PM	#5
*Sister Golden Hair* Queen of Nargothrond Administrator Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Akron, Ohio - USA Posts: 7,121	Almost twenty.

01-21-2002, 10:09 AM	#8
luinilwen Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sydney AUSTRALIA Posts: 368	hey hey hey fatty lumpkin is not a pony. bill is a pony. lumpkin is the pony. not a horse person but i have to go with little fatty lumpkin he took care of the hobbitses ponys he did

01-21-2002, 04:09 PM	#9
Foul_Dwimmerlaik Enting Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Chicago Posts: 76	Kirinki, Galdalf doesn't share your low opinion of Butterbur!

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