Rabbits

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Do you remember that bit of rabbit, Mr. Frodo?

Sam Gamgee in The Return of the King, "Mount Doom"

Rabbits were long-eared, furry animals, also called 'coneys'.

In T.A. 2747, the game of Golf was invented in the Battle of the Green Fields when Bandobras Took cut the head off the Goblin King Golfimbul and his head flew through the air and went down a rabbit hole.^[1] After rescuing Thorin and Company the Eagles brought them rabbits to eat.^[2] On 7 March T.A. 3019 in northern Ithilien, Samwise Gamgee asked Gollum to bring him some food. Gollum brought him two small rabbits which Sam proceeded to cook, to Gollum's intense displeasure.^[3]

Etymology

In a linguistic manuscript dating from the 1930s, appears the Quenya gloss lopo ("rabbit").^[4] In earlier Qenya, it was lapatte.^[5]

Portrayal in adaptations

Rabbits in adaptations

Rabbits in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
"Rhosgobel Rabbits" in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers:

While they camp in Ithilien, Gollum brings Frodo and Sam a pair of freshly caught rabbits. Sam is appalled at Gollum's suggestion that they eat the rabbits raw and replies "There's only one way to eat a brace of coneys..." Sam is then seen making rabbit stew in his cooking pot. Gollum wails at this, crying that by cooking them the fresh rabbit has been ruined.

2012-14: The Hobbit (film series):

Radagast drives a sled pulled by large rabbits, referred to as "Rhosgobel Rabbits".^[6]

References

↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "An Unexpected Party"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, "Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Qenya Noun Structure", in Parma Eldalamberon XXI (edited by Christopher Gilson, Patrick H. Wynne and Arden R. Smith), pp. 8, 31
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Qenyaqetsa: The Qenya Phonology and Lexicon", in Parma Eldalamberon XII (edited by Carl F. Hostetter, Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, and Patrick H. Wynne), p. 51
↑ "Radagast's Racing Rhosgobel Rabbits: A Recreational Musher Looks at the Realities of Bunny Sledding" 3 January 2013, TheOneRing.net, accessed 11 March 2013

[1] J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "An Unexpected Party"

[2] J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire"

[3] J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, "Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit"

[4] J.R.R. Tolkien, "Qenya Noun Structure", in Parma Eldalamberon XXI (edited by Christopher Gilson, Patrick H. Wynne and Arden R. Smith), pp. 8, 31

[5] J.R.R. Tolkien, "Qenyaqetsa: The Qenya Phonology and Lexicon", in Parma Eldalamberon XII (edited by Carl F. Hostetter, Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, and Patrick H. Wynne), p. 51

[6] "Radagast's Racing Rhosgobel Rabbits: A Recreational Musher Looks at the Realities of Bunny Sledding" 3 January 2013, TheOneRing.net, accessed 11 March 2013

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