Bored of the Rings

Caius Marcius <coriolan@worldnet.att.net> coriolan at worldnet.att.net
Mon Dec 23 17:32:22 UTC 2002


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Amy Z <lupinesque at y...>" 
<lupinesque at y...> wrote:

> 
> Did you know that in early drafts of LoTR, Frodo's name was Bingo?  
I 
> am not making this up.  I wonder if it would have become a classic 
of 
> English literature if JRRT had stuck with that idea?
> 

It would have made LOTR filk-writing easier

B-I-N-G-O
B-I-N-G-O
The R-I-N-G-O he threw into the flame


   - CMC





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