Zaragamba
In many cases, the names of the Hobbits given in The Lord of the Rings have been anglicised from their original Westron forms. This is the...
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Will Cotton
The second son of Holman Cotton of Bywater, and thus the younger brother of Farmer Tolman and uncle to Rose, the bride of Sam Gamgee....
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Wilimar Bolger
The eldest of three children born to Wilibald Bolger and Prisca Baggins. Despite his mother being a Baggins, Wilimar descended from a...
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Wilcome ‘Will’ Cotton
The second son of Holman Cotton of Bywater, and thus the younger brother of Farmer Tolman and uncle to Rose, the bride of Sam Gamgee....
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Travellers
The name in the Shire for the four Hobbits who travelled with the Company of the Ring: Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin Took and...
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Took
An old family of the Shire, who farmed the lands around Tuckborough in the Westfarthing. The head of the Took family was the hereditary...
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Tobold Hornblower
A famous Hobbit of Longbottom in the South-farthing of the Shire. In his younger days, Tobold was something of a traveller, and made the...
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Thain of the Shire
The largely honorary title of the military leader of the Shire. The first Shire-thain was Bucca of the Marish, and the title was held by...
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Stoors
One of the three ancient hobbit-kinds, the broadest and heaviest in build. They were the last of three branches of the hobbits to cross the...
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Sméagol
A Hobbit of Stoor-kind who lived on the banks of the Anduin in the later Third Age. His friend Déagol came upon the One Ring, but Sméagol...
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Shire-hobbits
The Hobbits of the Shire; the descendants and followers of Marcho and Blanco, the two Bree-hobbits who founded the Shire. Among the...
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Seredic Brandybuck
A grandson of Gorbadoc Brandybuck, Seredic was thus a descendant of the Masters of Buckland, though his own father Saradas was...
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Saradas Brandybuck
One of the seven children of Master Gorbadoc Brandybuck of Brandy Hall. His eldest brother was Rorimac, who inherited the title of Master...
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Samwise Gamgee
A gardener by trade, Sam seemed to be a simple Hobbit of plain speech. However, his love for Elves, his gift for poetry, and his belief...
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