My eighth graders had just finished studying The Hobbit. We’d followed Bilbo’s epic journey, we’d watched Peter Jackson’s awesome production vlogs, the girls had declared Kili the Dwarf “hot.”
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Twenty minutes remained in this particular class.
“Let’s find our Hobbit names,” I said.
I opened my laptop to a hobbit name generator site, got out some coloured paper, and showed them mine.
I turned the activity over to the students. The bulletin board started filling up.
Then a student pointed to one of the names and announced, “That one sounds like a Hobbit hooker.”
I doubled over laughing.
You gotta love teens.
What’s your hobbit name?
Or, if you prefer, what’s your wizard/dwarf/elf name?
Will you go see the movie, which opens today?
I was kind of hoping for a sexy Hobbit hooker name. I got Naeniver Maggot of Fair Downs. Bleh.
Maybe we can call you Nonny for short…
As an ex-middle school teacher, that totally sounds about right. The things I heard on a daily basis were total blog fonder!! Great post and loved it!!
Yes. My young teens love trying out their adult senses of humour. Love it.
Oh man..I wish I had you for my 8th great English teacher. I think then I would of passed the first time…LOL I laugh when I got my Hobbit name: Prisca Toadfoot.
Thanks. Great hobbit name!
SKA-WEEEET! I’ve been pondering options for a pen name. When I use my maiden name, I’m Belladonna Doffin of Needlehole. With my married name I’m Belladonna Brambleburr of Bindale Wood.
Belladonna is a bit presumptive. So, I’ll stick with my original notion of Cadence for my first name. Perhaps Cadence Brambleburr for blog comments, and Cadence Needlehole for my WIPs. Although, that is a bit off-putting for the Romance genre. I may save that one for the MG series.
This was too fun. I’ll bet your students love you,
LeanneDimples.You can lose the Belladonna name, but I think you should stick with Doffin of Needlehole. It’s hilarious!
Dimples. Sigh. I sound like I run the local strip joint.
Needlehole kills me.
Yes, teens are almost as interesting as kids. You’ll never run out of material, Leanne!
Dancing Ligot of Mudwater Poole.
Too funny Leanne!
Hey! You won my contest! Woohoo! …dances around room….
Squee! I’ve had a good winning week, but this is my first receive-in-mail gift!
Woohoo! It is on its way!
Okay, I have discovered my Elvish and Hobbit names. It didn’t make me understand the entire LOTR/Hobbit *thing* any better. I’m happy for you all, I just.don’t.get.it.
I didn’t get it for the longest time either. My ex-fiance was a Tolkien nut. It’s like Dungeons and Dragons in book form. And they do translate well to the big screen.
It’s exactly like D&D in book form! Apparently, back when D&D was a dice-with-lookup game played around a table, the Tolkien estate sued TSR for copyright over aspects of D&D which had been pretty obviously derived. I couldn’t see why, it looked totally different to me. I mean, Tolkien’s elves were immortal with pointy ears whereas the D&D elves had pointy ears and lived for 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. Totally different!
Mine is Daisy Brockhouse of Loamsdown. Looks like we are related!
My kids are going to love this…
Excellent. We can hire a hobbitsitter and tear up the Shire! Or at least Loamsdown.
Grigory Hamwich of Buckleberry Fern.
I’d be a shoe-in for a temp position at Hickory Farms.
We come from the same Shire Chase! For I am Podo Hamwich of Buckleberry Fern. We are Hobbit bros.
Uh oh. The Shire just got way noisier.
Speaking as Todo Danderfluff, I have to say that this is the coolest name generator I’ve seen in a while. My Elvish name is a jawbreaker: Maeglin Tulcakelumae. (the “ae” is supposed to be an umlaut “E” but the editor here won’t allow ALT-137 as a character).
Those darn umlauts. Sorry about that, Todo!
Samwise Knotwise of Michel Delving
I want a refund.
Your dwarf name is Rurin son of Vorin. Better?
Fun stuff!
My hobbit name is Meriadoc Tighfield of Tookbank. (sounds like a hobbit banker)
Myelvish name is Elros Lúinwë. I think I’ll stick with that one.
I’m too busy to catch the movie today, or tomorrow for that matter, but I will be watching at some point in the near future. Fun post Dimples!
Elros! You’re our rockstar musician. And those elves know how to party into the night.
😀 I have to tell you, I’m much more fond of Elros than Meriadoc. Besides, who wouldn’t want to be an all-night elvish rockstar?
Primula Toadfoot of Frogmorton… Not so sure about this one… Ha! Great post… your students are lucky kids for sure!
Primula. Could it be your more serious side?
Hysterical. Never underestimate the ability of teens and pre-teens to say the most unexpected things and laugh-out-loud moments.
Yes. I do adore them.
Pimpernel Bulge of Great Smials. Not sure how I feel about that. I will see this movie.
Mr. Bulge. These jokes write themselves.
Myrtle Gamwich of the Bree Gamwiches
Myrtle. Myrtle! Myrtle? Guess I’m a senior citizen hobbit. Must go eat some chocolate now.
Mine is “Ruby Goldworthy of Michel Delving”.
Mumble.
By the way, my latest D&D character (YES) is an halfling (same as a hobbit, more or less), and she’s so annoying that the other members of the company call her aftin. Like the aft, you know.
Do I have to point out that i’ll go to see the movie as soon as i can? 🙂
With my Peter Pan’ish ideas of never growing up I decided to look for my Elfen name…..Meroryan the Fair. I’m so Fair. Do you think Fair means the same in Elfen as ‘average’ does in human?
I don’t know if there are any female wizards, but I would like to be Proserpine the Purple. Just for the alliteration.
I am going elven here with Idril Melwasúl… Again, love the blog and hope my kids have a cool teacher that allows them to explore reading, not to mention characters so personally!
Angrod Lissësúl here (a tad better than Gorbulas Toadfoot). Actually, no it isn’t. They filmed this movie where I live, but nary a sign of it did we see, unlike The Lord Of The Rings which was right “out there” in public…
What a hoot! How did I miss this? I guess I’m Jewish in The Hobbit, too. As I was Goldie Brandybuck of Buckland. I think I’m a matchmaker there, too. Hooking up Hobbits, right and left.
I live that you did this with your students! What a great idea!
I consider Lord of the Rings to be among the finest cinematic achievements in motion picture history. As for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the closest approximation is The Phantom Menace. I liked The Phantom Menace back in May 1999 and I still do (in defense of… ). But I now know exactly how those who disliked or hated Episode One felt on that fateful evening 12.5 years ago. I feel your pain, for now it is my pain as well.”
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