Lord of the Rings’ Fifth Hobbit Explained (& Why He Isn’t In Jackson’s Trilogy)
Who is The Lord of the Rings' «Fifth Hobbit,» and why doesn't he appear in Peter Jackson's movie trilogy? The names of the nine Lord of the Rings Fellowship members are etched into cultural consciousness like the four Beetles or the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody, and each of J.R.R. Tolkien's main crew found their way into Peter Jackson's record-breaking 2000s movie trilogy.
Sadly, a crop of important supporting characters didn't make the cut. Lord of the Rings literary figures ditched for live-action include Tom Bombadil, Glorfindel (in the current timeline) and a certain rotund Hobbit by the name of Fredegar «Fatty» Bolger… And whereas Glorfindel found his scenes handed over to Arwen, Fatty Bolger's role in Lord of the Rings is excised from Jackson's movies entirely.
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The Bolger family gets name-checked during Bilbo Baggins' party speech, and effects artist Norman Cates plays an officially unnamed background Hobbit later identified as «Fredegar Bolger,» but his small part bears no resemblance to the book version whatsoever. The extended edition of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring reveals another «Fatty Bolger,» once again little more than a namesake.
The bond between Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took is unshakably strong. They depart The Shire as a brave quartet heading into the unknown, and return forever changed with no one else in The Shire able to comprehend their experiences during The War of the Ring. Strange, then, to consider the possibility of a fifth Hobbit infiltrating that elite group. Fatty Bolger features predominantly in Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring as a member of the
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