Encyclopedia > Barliman Butterbur

  Article Content

Barliman Butterbur

Barliman Butterbur is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

Barliman was the owner of the Prancing Pony in Bree. He was a human, but as Bree was inhabited by both humans and hobbits, he had two hobbit employees: Bob, who worked in the stables, and Nob, a servant.

Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers

He had a notoriously bad memory; for example, he forgot to tell Frodo that Gandalf had left a letter for him, leaving Frodo uncertain as to Gandalf's fate. In the Return of the King, Barliman was amazed to learn that Strider, a former patron of the Prancing Pony, had become king of Gondor.

In the Fellowship of the Ring movie, he was played by David Weatherly.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Dynabee

... to the torque trying to make the gyro fall over.) The axis of the gyroscope in the Dynabee is fixed to the spinning mass and it rests in a little groov ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 39.3 ms