Alan Sisto

The footnote here reminds us, by the way, that everybody's favorite umbrella-wielding old hobbit lady was Lobelia Bracegirdle before she married Otho Sackville Baggins.

So she's involved on both sides of the family.

Wow.

Yeah.

And, of course, their son, Lotho, might have been the worst of them all, as the footnote reminds us.

He was called the Chief back at the time of the War of the Ring and was heavily involved in the scouring of the Shire until he was eaten.

Matt...

Corrupting hobbits, easier than corrupting men, easier than corrupting, probably easier than corrupting dwarves.

But then again, dwarves are greedy.

Maybe they're easier to corrupt.

Yeah.

And now I'm picturing like, uh, like a vice squad in the, in the Shire, you know, the sheriffs, the sheriffs, vice, the sheriffs.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, man.

That's too much fun.

All right.

Well, that's certainly true.

I mean, there's, yeah.

Let's be honest, if the One Ring had fallen to Lotho, he would have absolutely put it on.

So we've got the tobacco, we've got the power at Gandalf's expense, and we've got corrupting hobbits.