However, in Tolkien's writing, there was a fifth member of their friend group whom Jackson's films all but ignored: Fredegar "Fatty" Bolger. Fredegar came from the Bridgefields, a region in the ...

One of her suggestions is "Fredegar," which is a direct callback to a forgotten Hobbit from the "Lord of the Rings" story — ...

Already in the seventh-century Chronicle of Fredegar, this tripartite model was invoked by a Merovingian queen to prophesy the fate of her descendants. This expert commentary sets out to understand ...