Is Sam a furrier? (Or something like that)

me9996 · 06-18-2006, 05:46 PM

In the hobbit there is mention of something called a furrier (Or something like that) who calls rabbits "Conies" and turns there skins into squirels (Or something like that) anyway, in LOTR Sam refers to rabbets at least once as "Conies". So that brings up the question: Is Sam a furrier? (Or something like that)

Jon S. · 06-18-2006, 10:12 PM

Sam's no furrier by trade. He's certainly not mein furrier and he ain't never caught a rabbit but he's still a friend of mine.

P.S. Coney is just another word for rabbit, there's no special furrier connotation to it, e.g., I grew up, in Brooklyn, not far from Coney Island.

GreyMouser · 06-19-2006, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by me9996

In the hobbit there is mention of something called a furrier (Or something like that) who calls rabbits "Conies" and turns there skins into squirels (Or something like that) anyway, in LOTR Sam refers to rabbets at least once as "Conies". So that brings up the question: Is Sam a furrier? (Or something like that)

That's a humorous reference to Gandalf calling Beorn a "skin-changer"; Bilbo thinks Gandalf is talking about fraudulent trappers who misrepresent rabbit fur as squirrel. (From a former farmhand on a mink ranch; lots of sleaze in the fur business)

durinsbane2244 · 06-20-2006, 10:28 PM

sam's the gardener. doi.

06-20-2006, 10:28 PM	#4
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06-18-2006, 10:12 PM	#2
Jon S. Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 455	Sam's no furrier by trade. He's certainly not mein furrier and he ain't never caught a rabbit but he's still a friend of mine. P.S. Coney is just another word for rabbit, there's no special furrier connotation to it, e.g., I grew up, in Brooklyn, not far from Coney Island.