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Today the Shire is a peaceful little country, generally free from the strife and turmoil of the outside world, but it was not always so. There was a time when goblins from Mount Gram, led by the great goblin-king Golfimbul, marched west across Eriador until they reached the Shire. The hobbits met Golfimbul's army upon the Greenfields, where Bandobras Took, called the Bullroarer, slew the goblin-king by beheading him with a mighty club-stroke. In so doing, he invented a new game, called "golf."
Now, rumors abound that Golfimbul's ghost has returned and is summoning goblins to the Shire once more. In the Bindbole Wood, between the Greenfields and Overhill is a place called Golfimbul's Hole. There Golfimbul's army first encamped, and some believe it is where the goblins are gathering once again.
Golfimbul's Hole is one of many locations created by Turbine for The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™, drawing from the lore of the novels by J.R.R. Tolkien. What the truth of the rumors are behind the return of Golfimbul and his goblins will be up to the players of LOTRO to uncover.
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Golfimbul
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| Dates: | Slain III 2747 | ||||||||||||||
| Race: | Orcs | ||||||||||||||
| Culture: | Orcs of the Mountains | ||||||||||||||
| Settlements: | Mount Gram | ||||||||||||||
| Pronunciation: | (following Elvish pronunciation) go'lfimbool | ||||||||||||||
| Meaning: | Uncertain1 | ||||||||||||||
The Orc-chieftain who invaded the Shire
An Orc-chieftain of Mount Gram, who led a band of his orcs in an invasion of the Shire. He was met, and defeated, at the Battle of Greenfields by Bandobras 'Bullroarer' Took. According to (no doubt apocryphal) legend, the events of that battle, coupled with Golfimbul's name, gave rise to the game of golf.
Footnotes
| 1 | Golfimbul's name was devised as a humorous origin of the word 'golf', and beyond this it may not carry any particular meaning at all, though several sources point out that it contains Old Norse elements interpretable 'great noise'. It's unclear why an Orc of Mount Gram would be named in Old Norse, or why 'great noise' should be particularly relevant to Golfimbul, so this may be simple coincidence. An alternative explanation might derive from Elvish. There is in fact a recorded Elvish word golf, meaning 'branch' (explicitly associated with weaponry), which might refer to the wooden club used by Bandobras to score his legendary hole-in-one. If the name is Elvish, however, its closing elements remain obscure. |
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Battle of Greenfields
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Bandobras Took’s defeat of invading Orcs
A battle fought in the Shire's Northfarthing in the year III 2747, the only battle to be fought within the borders of the Shire before the War of the Ring. An invading band of Orcs from Mount Gram were led into the Shire by their chief Golfimbul; they were defeated, and Golfimbul was slain, by Bandobras Took, otherwise known as 'the Bullroarer'.
