Albert Dreary

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Albert Dreary was a Man of Bree in the Third Age, in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. He serves as one of the three cameos that Peter Jackson makes; one in each film.

He is non-canonical, and is not in the books.

In adaptations[]

In TA 2940, when Thorin Oakenshield came to Bree to stay at the Inn of the Prancing Pony after failing to find his father Thráin in Dunland, Albert went out of a pub looking drunk, and ate the tip of a carrot before he departed.

Many years later in TA 3018, when Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin Took, and Meriadoc Brandybuck went to visit the inn to meet with Gandalf, Albert appeared once again eating a carrot and belched as they went past him.

When Peter Jackson was playing Albert in The Fellowship of the Ring he originally was smoking a pipe. However after a few takes he felt sick of the smoke, and so instead used a carrot. He did the same in his next appearance.
Albert Dreary was portrayed by Jackson in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. His name was identified at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) and in the Middle-earth Collectible Card Game.