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Location
Widespread, and explicitly mentioned in connection with the Shire and the lands about, and also with Rohan
Species
Meles meles1
Settlements
Meaning
Uncertain3
Other names
Sometimes known by the old (originally Celtic) name of 'brock'
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BadgersBadgers are relatively large burrowing animals with generally grey coats, though their heads are distinctively striped in black and white. They delve networks of underground tunnels known as setts,4 and can become ferocious when threatened.5 No badger appears directly in any of the tales of Middle-earth, but they are referred to obliquely often enough to make it clear that they were well known from the Shire to Rohan. When Frodo and his companions stayed with Tom Bombadil, among the many tales Tom told them was a story of badgers and their peculiar ways; this seems to be a reference to certain events in the poem "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", in which Tom was briefly captured by badgers, but quickly persuaded them to let him go on his way. That poem uses the old word 'brock' for a badger, and the same word can be seen in the place-name Brockenbores, 'badger-burrows', a village in the Eastfarthing of the Shire. Notes
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