Okay, fess up...

[arwink]

I've noticed this trend both among gamers and occasionally in the stray storhour: Halflings and Gnomes with LotR surnames. Exactly how common is it?

So, fess up, have you ever played a baggins, Brandyback, Took, Bracegirdle, Bulgar or Proudfoot?

Me, I've done two. One Took and one Proudfoot, both halfling fighter rogues.

The most recent among my players has been a gnomish Brandybuck (which for some reason is the most popular).

 

[Darkness]

No - but two of my players created a few Skywalkers...

 

[bwgwl]

i played a halfling thief back in 1E days who was a Took. can't remember his first name.

what's a more appropriate name for a thief than Took?

 

[Darkness]

what's a more appropriate name for a thief than Took?

ROFL!

 

[Dragongirl]

Though I am a big Tolkein fan, no.

 

[Crothian]

I've never done, though I have used the elven language

 

[Jolly Giant]

A player in my group ALLWAYS plays barbarians characters named after various Tolkien Badguys. Allways. No exception.

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

You caught me! I once played a D&D Halfling name Bilbo Baggins, but hey i was a lot younger then.

 

[pogre]

My players use names that are obsene that rhyme with the Tolkein names. There is no respect for Halflings in my campaign.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Sure, I've done it. I don't see anything wrong with it. Tolkien spent decades creating his world, I might as well avail myself of some of it.