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RoP New Harfoot Character Names

Sadoc Burrows

·         Sadoc

The name Sadoc comes from the Brandybuck family line. Sadoc Brandybuck was a Master of Buckland

·         Burrows

The Burrows Family was an important Hobbit family of the Shire. Bilbo's distant cousin Peony Baggins was married to Milo Burrows. The company Messrs Grubb, Grubb and Burrowes were responsible in auctioneering Bilbo's belongings.

Sadoc Burrows is portrayed by British actor Sir Lenny Henry.

Poppy Proudfellow

·         Poppy

Hobbits often named girl after flowers. Poppy Chubb-Baggins was the daughter of Falco Chubb-Baggins, the son of Bilbo Baggins's uncle Bingo Baggins. She married Filibert Bolger.

·         Proudfellow

The Proudfoot Family was a family of Hobbits of the Shire. There isn’t a Hobbit family link to the moniker ‘fellow’ but there are obvious connotations to fellowship.  

Poppy Proudfellow is portrayed by English actress Megan Richards.

LotR RoP Showrunners about Hobbits in the Second Age, Vanity Fair Feb 2022:

"One of the very specific things the texts say is that hobbits never did anything historic or noteworthy before the Third Age," McKay shared. "But really, does it feel like Middle-earth if you don't have hobbits or something like hobbits in it?"

Comments made recently by Lenny Henry (Sadoc Burrows) in Empire Magazine June 2022 about Harfoots in RoP:

“We’re a nomadic tribe, moving with the weather and the fertility of the crops. We have big caravans on wooden wheels and we’re very good at hiding things, because humans are much bigger than us and bring trouble,” Henry tells Empire.

“We’re the traditional Tolkien little guy,” explains Henry. “Traditionally, the little people in this world provide comedy but also get to be incredibly brave. You’re going to see us run the full gamut of emotions and actions in this adventure.”

From Tolkien Lore

“The beginning of Hobbits lies far back in the Elder Days that are now lost and forgotten. Only the Elves still preserve any records of that vanished time, and their traditions are concerned almost entirely with their own history, in which Men appear seldom and Hobbits are not mentioned at all.”

“Before the crossing of the mountains the Hobbits had already become divided into three somewhat different breeds: Harfoots, Stoors, and Fallohides. The Harfoots were browner of skin, smaller, and shorter, and they were beardless and bootless; their hands and feet were neat and nimble; and they preferred highlands and hillsides.”

LotR, FotR, Concerning Hobbits

In the middle of this Age the Hobbits appear. Their origin is unknown (even to themselves) † for they escaped the notice of the great, or the civilised peoples with records, and kept none themselves, save vague oral traditions, until they had migrated from the borders of Mirkwood, fleeing from the Shadow, and wandered westward, coming into contact with the last remnants of the Kingdom of Arnor.

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #131



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