Bilboesque

English Etymology From en Bilbo esque. Pronunciation en /ˌbɪlboʊˈɛsk/ Adjective en rare Reminiscent of Theodore G. Bilbo’s racist sentiment. en 1994 John Egerton Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South http://books.google.com/books?id=QQ45AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT880&dq=%22bilboesque%22 Knopf 9780307834577 Mississippi voters gave Bilboesque Senator James O. Eastland a resounding vote of confidence; 2008, Chris Myers Asch, The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer, University of North Carolina Press (2011), 9780807872024, page 329 (endnote): writing in 1968, Robert Sherrill commented upon this apparent contradiction between Eastland's public image as a Bilboesque demagogue and his private geniality: en 2011 Nelson Lichtenstein; Elizabeth Tandy Shermer Reuel Schiller Singing 'The Right-to-Work Blues': The Politics of Race in the Campaign for 'Voluntary Unionism' in Postwar California The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination http://books.google.com/books?id=BjpFw25kAXYC&pg=PA156&dq=%22bilboesque%22 156 University of Pennsylvania Press 2012 9780812244144 It touches every possible nerve of a progressive Californian, whether black or white, by linking the right-to-work movement to the worst excesses of southern extremism: absurd, Bilboesque miscegenation fears; Of, relating to, or reminiscent of the character Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. en 1981 Katharyn W. Crabbe J. R. R. Tolkien http://books.google.com/books?id=nHVbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22bilboesque%22&dq=%22bilboesque%22 60 Frederick Ungar Publishers 9780804421348 At the same time, Bilboesque proverbs like "Every worm has his weak spot" and "Never laugh at live dragons" use the familiar proverb form to make the unfamiliar inhabitants of the secondary world seem more matter-of-fact. en Toby Manhire The Hobbit hullabaloo http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/oct/29/the-hobbit-new-zealand-actors-union The Guardian 29 October 2010 So here goes: much as Alex Ferguson and Manchester United could not afford to let their Bilboesque, talismanic striker leave the football club, Key and New Zealand could not afford to let this production take flight. https://web.archive.org/web/20261012113647/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/oct/29/the-hobbit-new-zealand-actors-union 12 October 2026 en Geoff Boucher ‘The Hobbit’: Peter Jackson and the one true Bilbo Baggins http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/the-hobbit-peter-jackson-and-the-one-true-bilbo-baggins/ Los Angeles Times 23 August 2011 “He’s Bilbo-esque,” the filmmaker said. “You might not always want to say that about you, right? But seriously he has the essential features of this little English gent, this country gent who is slightly old-fashioned and has to go around in the world and try to cope with it. That’s not exactly who Martin [Freeman] is as a person, but as an actor he does that so well. https://web.archive.org/web/20161027104952/http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/the-hobbit-peter-jackson-and-the-one-true-bilbo-baggins/ 27 October 2016 en en eponyms terms derived from Tolkien's legendarium en J. R. R. Tolkien Racism