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do-you-know-this-adhd-character · 7 months ago

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Do you know this (noncanon) ADHD character?

SPECIFICALLY FROM THE BOOKS, HE'S BARELY IN THE MOVIES

Evidence below the cut!

In "Fellowship", Barliman is the owner of the Prancing Pony, and he is shown to be easily distractible - "There now, it's gone again but it will come back when I have time to think" and he talks about how "one thing after another drove it out of his mind".

Gandalf has this to say about Barliman in his letter to Frodo: "PPPS. I hope Butterbur sends this promptly. A worthy man, but his memory is like a lumber-room: thing wanted always buried. If he forgets, I shall roast him." (Spoiler: he forgor)

Despite this, Gandalf considers Butterbur trustworthy and corrects Frodo when Frodo calls Barliman stupid after Frodo has met him and received the delayed letter, Gandalf saying "you don't know much about [Big People] if you think Barliman is stupid… He can see through a brick wall in time, as they say in Bree".

#poll #noncanon adhd character #lord of the rings #lotr #lotr books #barliman butterbur #i have a story to tell about the hobbit. related enough i think #when i was like 9 we went on a plane. and we had 3 seats in the middle and a window seat #my younger sibling insisted on having both parents with them so i got the window seat #the plan was for me to ask the two other people in the row if they could move so i could have the aisle #i happened to be reading the hobbit at the time and was holding it in my hand when i asked this old couple #'i'm sorry... could you move so i can sit next to my family?' in the tiniest most scared voice #and the old lady said 'look she's reading the hobbit! well if you're reading the hobbit you can sit anywhere you like'#and i know now she would have moved anyways #but at the time i was so fucking grateful i hadn't put it in my backpack before boarding like my parents said i should #(i was holding my place with my finger)#the hobbit (book) save me. save me the hobbit (book) (from sitting with strangers between me and my parents)

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