A Hobbit Tumblr Post

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[unikittie]

Gorbulus will never be one upped in names

[JeromeSkavenSlayer]

Bungo Baggins, father to Drogo Baggins, father to Frodo Baggins.

Let me repeat this for emphasis, Bungo Baggins.

[GhostBear]

A Hobbit naming their child after something that got them drunk is incredibly on brand.

[ursadabear]

The first known use of ‘mimosas’ to describe the drink was in 1925. Tolkien began writing LOTR in 1937. There’s a nonzero chance he knew mimosa was also a drink.

[snakeson]

My favorite factoid about hobbits is about when Bandobras “Bullroarer” Took, a distant ancestor of Merry and Pippin, charged against a horde of goblins and knocked off the head of their king Golfimbul and it flew into a rabbit hole, thereby inventing the game of golf.

[ryles]

it is, in fact, entirely possible for tolkien to have named "mimosa bunce" after the cocktail, and indeed, her surname could even be a pun on "brunch"

[brow]

Considering that Tolkien straight up took ALL of the dwarf names in the hobbit from Poetic Edda, I 100% am willing to believe that he deliberately named that hobit after the drink

[nickschaefer]

The line in the movie where Gandalf gets mad at Frodo and calls him a "Meddlesome Took", he was calling him by his Mothers maiden name before Bilbo adopted him.

[heroposral]

I mean, mimosas only really got popular in the early 60s, so he probably didn't know what they were, but it would be really funny if he did and named a character after them

[ncleasure]

Tolkien was a veteran of the french front of ww1. He drank like a fish and smoked like a chimney. The mimosa was in bartenders guides since the mid 20's. He probably had both in mind and got a kick out of making some nerds argue about it.

[zeusalternative]

To be fair, you'll be surprised how many real names are just like that in their origins, is just that the change over time and the language barrier makes it difficult to notice.

[jjgamer]

Head cannon! The cocktail was named after mimosa the hobbit cause they were just like that

[AnneWilcox-xwet]

To the person who can't sleep for wondering...JRR Tolkien lived for 81, served in World War 1, taught at Oxford, and was the middle-class son of a bank manager.
Yes, there is an extremely good chance that, he knew what a mimosa was.

[embr]

Mimosa Bunce: Named after the plant, named the drink

[mathewspieker]

I've been a bartender for almost 10 years and I had no idea there was a mimosa plant

[christianhohenstein]

I have ancestors from Helgoland and the church books from there reaching back to the 17th centuries are online. The drama you can imagine from that data. On of my ancestors lost his first wife, remarried her little sister and have a new daughter with her about 17 month later just to be lost at sea just a year after that.
Or one of my great great grand uncles died when he was 9 months old and the next son got the same name.
One of my ?great grand cousins? was called Schaschlik-Emil, probably because he was an innkeeper.
Not only fictional family trees are wild

[Thecoolestgalonthebeach]

Me, getting my copy of return of the king out of my book chest immediately

[samuellawrencesbookclub]

Mimosas were popularised by Frank Meier in a 1934 book of cocktail recipes, and at that time cocktails were generally considered to be quite sophisticated. Tolkien was born in 1892 and died in 1973 and was a staunchly upper-middle-class academic. There is every chance, therefore, that he was both aware of, and perhaps acquainted with, the cocktail mimosa.

[Feytouched.Locket]

Mimosa the cocktail was invented 1925, return of the king came out 1955, there’s a good chance Tolkien knew of the cocktail, lol

[joewalsh]

Of course Tolkien knew what a mimosa was.