Tolkien’s Koala: From Bingo to Frodo
Tom Bombadil: Dead Hobbits & Barrow-wights | TB Playing Cards | Tom Bombadil (TB) - Evolution | TB - Excellent spirit | TB - Guests, Hosts ... | Tolkien's Holy Spirit | Religious Bibliography | Tolkien's Koala | TB - Powers (Video) | TB - The Mystery Solved (Video) | TB - Who is? Part 1 (Video) | TB - Who is? Part 2 (Video) | TB - Who is he really? (Video) Abstract : The lead hobbit character in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy of 1954-5 was originally named Bingo Baggins after Bingo Bear, a toy Australian koala owned by the author’s daughter Priscilla and often referred to at the time as a koala bear. Tolkien, during the course of writing The Lord of the Rings , went on to change the lead from Bingo Baggins, son of Bilbo Baggins, to Frodo Baggins, his nephew. Bears were to feature throughout Tolkien’s juvenile and adult fiction, though the marsupial koala w