Question: What J.R.R. Tolkein story set in the Kingdom of Gondor features the minor character Forlong the Fat?

Context articles: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
The Return of the King
The Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie
I Vinti
Forlong the Fat
Ghân-buri-Ghân
The Doors Open
Peregrin Took
Parallel novel
Supporting character

The Compilation of Final Fantasy VII is a metaseries produced by Square Enix.
 A subseries stemming from the main "Final Fantasy" series, it is a collection of video games, animated features and short stories based in the world and continuity of "Final Fantasy VII".
 Officially announced in 2003 with the reveal of "", the series' core products are three video games and one movie release.
 Alongside these are tie-in products and spin-offs including books, mobile games and an original video animation.
 "Advent Children" and the mobile title "" are sequel and prequel to "VII", respectively focusing on Cloud Strife, the original game's main protagonist, and covert operatives known as the Turks. ""
 follows the story of Zack Fair, an important minor character in "VII", while "", which acts as a sequel to "Advent Children" follows Vincent Valentine, one of the original's optional characters.
The Return of the King is the third and final volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings", following "The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Two Towers".
 The story begins in the kingdom of Gondor, which is soon to be attacked by the Dark Lord Sauron.
The Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie, (also The Murder of Bindy MacKenzie in the US and Becoming Bindy MacKenzie in the UK) is a 2006 novel for young adults by Jaclyn Moriarty.
 It is the third of a series set in the north-western suburbs of Sydney, where the author grew up.
 The story focuses on a minor character from Moriarty's second young adult novel, "Finding Cassie Crazy".
 The story is told through letters, memos and transcripts, similar to the structure of other novels by the author.
I vinti (English: "The Vanquished" ) is a 1953 drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Franco Interlenghi, Anna Maria Ferrero and Eduardo Ciannelli.
 The film is composed of three stories about youths who commit murders.
 In the French story set in Paris, a group of high school students kill one of their colleagues for his money.
 In the Italian story set in Rome, a university student is involved in smuggling cigarettes.
 In the English story set in London, a lazy poet finds the body of a woman and tries to sell his story to the press.
 The film was a project of Film Constellation to Suso Cecchi d'Amico, who proposed Antonioni as director.
 This film was screened out of competition at 1953 Venice Film Festival.
Forlong the Fat is a fictional character in the Middle-earth universe created by J. R. R. Tolkien.
 He is a supporting character in "The Lord of the Rings", appearing in the third volume, "The Return of the King".
 However, he was cut from the .
Ghân-buri-Ghân, or simply Ghân, is a character in the epic fantasy "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien.
 Ghân is the chief of the Drúedain, also known as the Woses, the wild men who inhabit Drúadan Forest.
 In the third volume of "The Lord of the Rings", "The Return of the King", he leads Théoden, King of Rohan, through the forest so he can reach Minas Tirith with reinforcements.
 In return, Théoden promises that his people will have peace with the Drúedain, and that his people will wage war and drive away the "gorgûn" (Orcs), that Ghân hates so much and that have been troubling the Drúedain.
 In the end of "The Return of the King" Aragorn, the newly crowned King of Gondor, gives the Forest of Drúadan to Ghân and his people, decreeing that none shall enter again without his leave.
The Doors Open, published by Hodder and Stoughton in England in 1949 and by Walker and Company in the United States in 1962, is the third novel by the British mystery and thriller writer Michael Gilbert.
 Gilbert, who was appointed CBE in 1980, was a founder-member of the British Crime Writers' Association.
 The Mystery Writers of America named him a Grand Master in 1988 and in 1990 he was presented Bouchercon's Lifetime Achievement Award.
 Like his first two books, it features Inspector Hazlerigg, although not in a major role.
 It is, in fact, a very diffuse book in terms of its characters.
 Angus McMann, who was the chief protagonist of Gilbert's previous book, They Never Looked Inside, is briefly mentioned on the first page and makes a later appearance as a minor character.
 Hazlerigg does not appear until page 24 and thereafter only at intervals throughout the book.
 There are, in actuality, three other protagonists who, along with Hazlerigg, share the role of driving the narrative.
 One is Noel Anthony Pontarlier Rumbold ("Nap"), a junior solicitor in his father's London firm.
 Nap had spent four months on dangerous missions with the French maquis in occupied France during the war and is, apparently, still a Lieutenant-Colonel, D.S.O.
 A few years later he will be a main character in Gilbert's well-received novel "Death Has Deep Roots".
 Patrick (Paddy) Yeatman-Carter, an acquaintance of Nap's, is another lead character, as is his uncle, Alfred Lord Cedarbrook, a man with an astonishing background, much sought after by both the Foreign Office and the War Office during WWII and now, apparently, still affiliated with the Secret Service.
 As well as being a linguist, explorer, soldier, and diplomat, he also has a law degree.
 All three of them, to one degree or another, carry out private investigations, sometimes with the backing of Hazlerigg, sometimes not.
Peregrin Took, more commonly known as Pippin, is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel "The Lord of the Rings".
 He is closely tied with his friend and cousin, Meriadoc Brandybuck (Merry), the two are usually together during most of the story.
 Pippin and Merry are introduced as a pair of young hobbits who become ensnared in fellow hobbit Frodo Baggins's quest to destroy the One Ring.
 In this regard, Pippin is a member of the Fellowship of the Ring.
 He and Merry become separated from the rest of the group at the breaking of the Fellowship and spend much of "The Two Towers" with their own story line.
 Impetuous and curious, he enlists (in "The Return of the King") as a soldier in the army of Gondor and fought in several battles during the War of the Ring.
 In the epilogues to the main story, Pippin returns to the Shire and becomes "Thain" or hereditary leader of the land before dying and being buried as a hero in Gondor.
The parallel novel is a piece of literature written within, derived from, or taking place during, the framework of another work of fiction by the same or another author.
 Parallel novels or "reimagined classics" are works of fiction that "borrow a character and fill in his story, mirror an 'old' plot, or blend the characters of one book with those of another".
 These stories further the works of already well known novels by focusing on a minor character and making them the major character.
 The revised stories may have the same setting and time frame and even the same characters.
A supporting character is a character in a narrative that is not focused on by the primary storyline, but appears or is mentioned in the story enough to be more than just a minor character or a cameo appearance.
 Sometimes, supporting characters may develop a complex back-story of their own, but this is usually in relation to the main character, rather than entirely independently.
 In television, supporting characters may appear in more than half of the episodes per season.