Jon S.
05-06-2008, 11:17 AM
I did a word search for sports in titles and, interestingly, found nothing in the Tokien section so I'm guessing this may actually be a first-time question: What sports were popular in ME?
The only reference I'm aware of is to golf which, interestingly, was invented by the Scottish in our world and the Hobbits in ME!
If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only a poetical exageration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-grand-uncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of The Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit hole, and in this way the battle was won, and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.
Can anyone ID other sports references in Tolkien's works?
The only reference I'm aware of is to golf which, interestingly, was invented by the Scottish in our world and the Hobbits in ME!
If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only a poetical exageration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-grand-uncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of The Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit hole, and in this way the battle was won, and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.
Can anyone ID other sports references in Tolkien's works?