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- Yes, Sam Gamgee is in a sense a relation of Dr. Gamgee, in that his name would not have taken that form, if I had not heard of 'Gamgee tissue'; there was I believe a Dr. Gamgee in Birmingham when I was a child. The name was any way always familiar to me. Gaffer Gamgee arose first: he was a legendary character to my children . But, as you will find explained, in this tale the name is a 'translation' of the real Hobbit name, derived from a village anglicized as Gamwich , near Tighfield . Since Sam was close friends of the family of Cotton , I was led astray into the Hobbit-like joke of spelling Gamwichy [as] Gamgee, though I do not think that in actual Hobbit-dialect the joke really arose. (en)
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