Save Gender Masculine Usage Literature, Germanic Mythology Pronounced Pron. BOM-bur(Literature) [key] Meaning & History A Dwarf in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit." A relative of Bifur and Bofur, and the fattest of the Dwarves in Thorin's company.Tolkien took the name from the Dvergatal "Catalogue of Dwarves" in the Völuspá, a part of the Poetic Edda.
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