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Christopher Tolkien: Characters
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Tolkien decided to blend the character of Odo with that of Frodo Took, the abstracted, dreamy hobbit. Frodo Took slowly began to morph through many name changes into Peregrin Took. He became outgoing and developed a swagger and definite “Odo-esque tendencies.” He ... began speaking dialog that later became Pippin’s. Meanwhile, Odo’s less desirable qualities (gluttony and cowardice) were passed on to stay-at-home hobbit Fredegar “Fatty” Bolger. Thus, Odo provided the nucleus for two characters, Pippin and Fatty Bolger.
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Characters from Tolkien, by David Day, may once have been titled A Tolkien Bestiary, 11 illustrators and a designer Debra Zuckerman - suggested by Varda-(Valar). Looking up Faramir, the entries were under "Gondor Men" and "Rangers of Ithilien", so be sure to use the index.
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While many of his companions died, Tolkien remained unharmed, until he fell ill with severe trench fever at the end of October 1916. Trench fever was a much feared infectious disease characterized by the sudden onset of fever with headaches, sore muscles, bones, and joints, and outbreaks of skin lesions on the chest and back. It was transmitted from soldier to soldier by the body louse - and those parasites were here abundantly, hidden in the clothes of the men who lived in the trenches under bad hygienic circumstances. Thousands of men had already reported sick with it.
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