Character Bios
The last ten updated biographies
- Will Whitfoot
- Will Whitfoot is the Mayor of the Shire during its Occupation:Pippin roused a good deal of laughter with an account of the collapse of the roof of the Town Hole in Michel Delving: Will Whitfoot, the Mayor, and the fattest hobbit1 in the Westfarthing, had been buried in chalk, and came out like a flo...
- Last Update: 03/09/10
Complete - Belladonna Took
- Belladonna Baggins was born as Belladonna 1 Took, the oldest of the three daughters of Gerontius Took and Adamanta Chubb; she is the mother of Bilbo Baggins, the grandaunt of Frodo Baggins, and the great-grandaunt of Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took:[The] mother of... Bilbo Baggins... was the f...
- Last Update: 03/09/10
Complete - Tobold Hornblower
- A Hobbit of Longbottom in the Southfarthing, who pioneered the cultivation of pipe-weed:c. 2670 Tobold plants 'pipe-weed' in the Southfarthing. The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, The Tale of Years: The Third AgeWhen Hobbits first began to smoke is not known.... But all accounts agree that Tobold...
- Last Update: 03/02/10
Complete - Hob Hayward
- Hob Hayward was a Shirriff in the Shire at the end of the War of the Ring:It was after nightfall when..., the travellers came at last to the Brandywine, and they found the way barred. At either end of the Bridge there was a great spiked gate; and on the further side of the river they could see that ...
- Last Update: 03/01/10
Complete - Meneldil
- Meneldil, son of Anárion, 2nd King (with Isildur) of Gondor, is the 3rd King of Gondor:Meneldil was the nephew of Isildur, son of Isildur's younger brother Anárion, slain in the siege of Barad-dûr. Isildur had established Meneldil as King of Gondor. He was a man of courtesy, but farseeing, and he di...
- Last Update: 02/12/10
Complete - Balrogs
- Balrogs are corrupted Maia who clothe themselves in Middle-earth as demons of shadow and flame:The Balrog is a survivor from the Silmarillion and the legends of the First Age.... The Balrogs, of whom the whips were the chief weapons, were primeval spirits of destroying fire, chief servants of the pr...
- Last Update: 02/07/10
Complete - Malach Aradan
- Malach Aradan, son of Marach, Chieftain of the Third House of the Edain, is the father of Adanel and Magor, grandfather of Hathol, and great-grandfather of Hador Lórindol, Lord of Dor-lómin.[Many] young and eager men of the Edain went away and took service with the kings and lords of the Eldar. Amon...
- Last Update: 02/06/10
Complete - Tooks of Great Smials
- One of the two most prominent families of the Shire, who dwell in the Great Smials and the surrounding Tookland:The full list of [the hobbits'] wealthier families is: Baggins, Boffin, Bolger, Bracegirdle, Brandybuck, Burrowes, Chubb, Grubb, Hornblower, Proudfoot, Sackville, and Took. The Letters...
- Last Update: 01/30/10
Complete - Brandybucks of Buckland
- One of the two most prominent families of the Shire; descendants of Gorhendad Oldbuck, who dwell in Buckland:The full list of [the hobbits'] wealthier families is: Baggins, Boffin, Bolger, Bracegirdle, Brandybuck, Burrowes, Chubb, Grubb, Hornblower, Proudfoot, Sackville, and Took. The Letters of...
- Last Update: 01/30/10
Complete - Gorbadoc Brandybuck
- Gorbadoc Brandybuck is the son of Marmadoc Brandybuck and Adaldrida Bolger, the uncle by marriage of Bilbo Baggins, the grandfather of Frodo Baggins, the great-grandfather of Meriadoc Brandybuck, and the great-granduncle by marriage of Peregrin Took:'You see: Mr. Drogo [Baggins], he married poor Mis...
- Last Update: 01/29/10
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