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Denethor II

Denethor II, son of Ecthelion II, is the 26th Steward of Gondor:Table of Contents:General Description Physical Appearance Behaviour and appearance in his final madness Relationships with othersFinduilas Boromir Faramir Ecthelion Thorongil (Aragorn) Gandalf Skills History Etymology Notes...

Last Update: 05/06/08
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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: 05/05/08
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Nahar

The great horse of the Vala, Oromë the Hunter:Oromë is a mighty lord.... He is a hunter..., and he delights in horses and in hounds.... Nahar is the name of his horse, white in the sun, and shining silver at night. The Silmarillion, Valaquenta: Of the ValarAnd Oromë tamer of beasts would ride too...

Last Update: 05/04/08
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Robin Smallburrow

Robin Smallburrow is a Shirriff of the First Eastfarthing Troop in the Shire during its Occupation:Sam had been looking the Shirriffs up and down and had spotted one that he knew. 'Hey, come here Robin Smallburrow!' he called. 'I want a word with you.' With a sheepish glance at his leader, who lo...

Last Update: 05/04/08
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Bob

The hostler at The Prancing Pony in Bree.'Hi! Nob!' [Mr. Butterbur] shouted.... A cheery-looking hobbit bobbed out of a door.... 'Where's Bob?' asked the landlord. 'You don't know? Well find him...! Tell Bob there's five ponies that have to be stabled. He must find room somehow.' The Fellow...

Last Update: 04/22/08
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Bill Ferny

A man of Bree, who was corrupted by the Nazgûl during the War of the Ring.'I thought, well, that [Big People] were just big, and rather stupid: kind and stupid like Butterbur; or stupid and wicked like Bill Ferny. But then we don't know much about Men in the Shire....' The Fellowship of the Ring,...

Last Update: 04/21/08
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Barliman Butterbur

The proprietor of The Prancing Pony in Bree.[It] was from Bree that the art of smoking the genuine weed spread.... The home and centre of the art is thus to be found in the old inn of Bree, The Prancing Pony, that has been kept by the family of Butterbur from time beyond record. The Fellowship of...

Last Update: 04/21/08
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Nob

A hobbit servant at The Prancing Pony in Bree.'Hi! Nob!' [Mr. Butterbur] shouted. 'Where are you, you woolly-footed slow-coach? Nob!' 'Coming, sir! Coming!' A cheery-looking hobbit bobbed out of a door, and seeing the travellers, stopped short and stared at them with great interest. 'Where's B...

Last Update: 04/21/08
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Ioreth

A Gondorian woman who works in the Houses of Healing during the Siege of Minas Tirith.Then an old wife, Ioreth, the eldest of the women who served in that house, looking on the fair face of Faramir, wept.... And she said: 'Alas! if he should die. Would that there were kings in Gondor, as there were ...

Last Update: 04/19/08
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Brandybucks, The

A prominent family of the Shire, descendants of Gorhendad Oldbuck, who dwell in Buckland:The Fallohides, the least numerous [breed of Hobbit], were a northerly branch. They were more friendly with Elves than the other Hobbits were, and had more skill in language and song than in handicrafts; and of ...

Last Update: 04/19/08
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