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#121544 01/29/04 12:40 AM
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Reading about "gamboge" I got to thinking about "gamgee" as in the name of the hobbit Sam Gamgee. In a note in the very last page of the Appendices to LOTR, Tolkien says of the name Gamgee that no reference to the name "Cotton" was intended. So I looked it up, and it turns out "Gamgee-tissue" is an absorbent cotton-wool for dressing wounds, and takes its name from one "S. Gamgee" (1828-86)!


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Thanks for the link, jheem. It's just a pity that the link to a "millionaire" quiz about LotR wasn't for real.



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