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Old 11-03-2002, 09:37 PM   #1
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I'VE got a first cousin once removed named BILBO!!

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?
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Old 11-03-2002, 10:56 PM   #2
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That is cool...did he have furry feet? Should we start calling you Frodo now? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
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Old 11-03-2002, 11:15 PM   #3
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K of G - I think you're Sunday School group may have it backwards. The lands of Kentucky were settled by many people of English descent, (my own family is full of English stock by way of Kentucky) so if you go back in the family trees you'll find many English names. Bilbo would be an unusual name though; mostly folk were going for the Biblical names by the late 19th century, but it may have been an old family name.

As for "pipe-weed": by the 1500 tobacco from the Americas had been introduced to Europe, so the first European settlers in America may have already taken up the habit before they came to the New World. (I'm not sure if it was cultivated in England, which is too far to the North) but they were definitely smoking it.
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Old 11-04-2002, 01:27 AM   #4
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That is so cool!!! A cousin named Bilbo... wow!
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Old 11-04-2002, 09:05 PM   #5
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Yeah, I know it's probably not ORIGINALLY a name from Kentucky.

I might call myself Frodo, but I prefer the swarthy men of Gondor, or the Elves, really, than half-hobbits. Plus, at 6'4, I'm more of the size for a Man. But then again, I'm always teased for having size 15 feet...(No foolin'!)
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Old 11-04-2002, 09:48 PM   #6
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kentucky? whoah, that's cool.

... hopefully, no one is idiotic enough to call him...erm, a word that rhymes with bilbo that describes a unique piece of male anatomy.
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Old 11-04-2002, 09:55 PM   #7
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Actually tolkien named Bilbo after Bilboa in Spain.I read it in a book.
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Old 11-05-2002, 11:03 AM   #8
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Wait a minute...how is it possible to have a "first cousin once removed"? Isn't that an oxymoron? (I'm slow, I know. *shrug*)

BTW, at 6'4" with that big of feet, you're more like a hill-troll than an Elf. I don't mean that in mean way! Just teasing... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
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Old 11-05-2002, 11:31 AM   #9
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Diamond, a first cousin once removed is the first cousin for somebody one step away generationally.

For example, a parent or child's first cousin would be your first cousin once removed.

It also works the other way; your first cousin's child but not parent (this is your uncle or aunt!).

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Old 11-05-2002, 11:35 AM   #10
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Ooooookay, I was forgetting about the generation part. Thanks! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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Old 11-05-2002, 08:40 PM   #11
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On the origin of Bilbo: I found this at dictionary.com
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bil·bo2 n. Archaic pl. bil·boes A sword, especially one having a well-tempered blade.
I don't really know if that's relevant, but I just thought I'd throw it out there anyway.
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Old 11-05-2002, 09:36 PM   #12
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THAT'S SO COOL!!!!!

*Ahem* who's going to call whom Frodo? (J/K)
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Old 11-05-2002, 09:52 PM   #13
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Actually tolkien named Bilbo after Bilboa in Spain.I read it in a book.
Bilbao, you mean (we wouldn't want to confuse it with Balboa)... the city's Basque name is indeed Bilbo. I've lived there, in fact. Where did you read this?

It seems extraordinarily unlikely, even to a euskophile like me, that this is more than a simple coincidence. First of all, the hobbits are quite clearly English (although I have indeed noticed certain hobbitlike tendencies in Basque culture, such as the idiosyncratic (though not subterranean) houses), and I can think of no other Basque or Spanish influence anywhere in the books, although I would have been happy to have noticed it. Second of all, although I like the city very much, Tolkien would probably have hated it. It's a very industrial port town with a river that they're currently making a valiant attempt to clean. The streets are all paved (though some are very narrow and winding and more like stones than concrete) and you don't see trees until you get out into Getxo. And then, of course, there are the museum of modern art (the Guggenheim; if you've heard of Bilbao, it's probably why) and the resident terrorists, although both of these are post- Hobbit . It's a post-Sharkey Shire, if anything.

Birdland's explanation seems by far the most likely. But I'm very curious about what book is handing out this information. What connection do they see between the two?

(By the way, why is this in the "Movies" forum?)

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Old 11-06-2002, 04:16 AM   #14
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(Good question, Belin)
*pushes topic over to Novices and Newcomers*
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Old 11-06-2002, 09:29 PM   #15
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Sorry! But it didn't seem appropriate to pust in Novices and Newcomers either!!
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