[Emma]

Merry and Pippin were chosen as hobbit names for hobbit-sized hamsters - they get referred to as the hobbits or the hobbit-hams.



My most recent Syrians - Bella because she was very pretty, and Mitzi was after a book I had when I was little about a little bear called Mitzi. I can't really remember other reasons for Ham names - one was called after Jayne Torville the ice dancer. One was Posy as it rhymed with the previous ham's name, Rosie!