Balbo Baggins : The earliest recorded member of the Baggins family;great-grandfather of Bilbo the Ring-finder.
Bandobras Took : The son of either Thain Isengrim II or Isumbras III (sources differ) of the Took line, Bandobras was famous for averting a goblin invasion of the Shire at the Battle of Greenfields and personally slaying the goblins' leader,Golfimbul.
Belba Baggins : One of Bilbo's two aunts (the other being Linda Baggins);she married Rudigar Bolger.
Bell Goodchild : The wife of Hamfast Gamgee and mother of Samwise of the Company of the Ring.
Belladonna Took : The mother of Bilbo Baggins,one of the twelve children of Thain Gerontius,better known as the Old Took.
Berylla Boffin : The wife of Balbo Baggins,the patriarch of the Baggins family of Hobbiton.
Bilbo Baggins (see Character Biographies).
Bilbo Gardner : A son of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton;named for Bilbo Baggins.
Bingo Baggins : An uncle of Bilbo Baggins,he married Chica Chubb and so founded the Chubb-Baggins family.
Blanco : With his brother Marcho,one of the two Bree-hobbits who founded the Shire in the mid-Third Age.
Bob : One of the servants of Barliman Butterbur at the inn of the Prancing Pony in Bree.He was apparently its stablehand;at least,every time he is mentioned in The Lord of the Rings,his duties seem to involve stabling of horses and ponies.
Bucca of the Marish : The end of the second millennium of the Third Age was a time of crisis for the Hobbits of the Shire.The northern lands of Middle-earth were aflame with war.The armies of Angmar,of Arthedain,of Cardolan,Rhudaur and latterly Gondor marched across the lands that had been the northern realm of Arnor.Most of the Shire-hobbits went into hiding,though some few marched to the service of Arthedain,within whose borders the Shire lay but they never returned.At last,peace returned:the kingdoms of the D�nedain fell one by one and then the victorious Witch-king of Angmar was himself defeated by a revenging army of Gondor.The Hobbits returned to their old lives but the loss of Arvedui,the last king of Arthedain,left them leaderless.After four years had passed since the end of the great wars,the Hobbits decided to take a leader for themselves.They chose one Bucca of the Marish,who was granted the title Thain of the Shire and led the Shire-hobbits to peace and prosperity.No more is known of Bucca's life but his legacy remained until the time of the War of the Ring and beyond.At that time,more than twelve hundred years after his Thainship,the Masters of Buckland still proudly claimed descent from Bucca the first Thain.
Bungo Baggins : Bilbo Baggins' father.He married into the Took clan when he wed Belladonna Took.
Camellia Sackville :An aunt of Bilbo Baggins,whose marriage to his uncle Longo Baggins formed the foundation of the Sackville-Baggins family.Through her son Otho,she became the mother-in-law of Lobelia Sackville-Baggins.
Chica Chubb : One of Bilbo Baggins' aunts,who married his uncle Bingo to found the Chubb-Baggins branch of the family.Bingo and Chica had one recorded son,Falco Chubb-Baggins.
Cotman : The son of Cottar, and an ancestor of the Cottons of Bywater.Cotman was apparently not a wealthy hobbit - his name means 'cottage dweller',meaning that he lived in a particularly small hobbit-hole.He married Rose the daughter of Holman the greenhanded and their son (also called Holman) was the first hobbit to use the family-name of Cotton.
Cottar : The oldest known member of the Cotton family,though in fact the name 'Cotton' would not appear until the time of his grandson Holman Cotton.Cottar was born in the year 1220 by the Shire-reckoning,that is some two centuries before the War of the Ring.He had two sons,Cotman and Carl.Cotman married Rose,the daughter of Holman the greenhanded and so began a long association between Cottar's descendants and Holman's.
Daisy Gamgee : Eldest daughter of Hamfast Gamgee and Bell Goodchild;a sister of Samwise Gamgee of the Company of the Ring.
Daisy Gardner : A daughter of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton;perhaps named for her aunt,Daisy Gamgee.
D�agol : A Hobbit-like creature of the same kind as Sm�agol (Gollum),who found the One Ring on the bed of the River Anduin while fishing.He was murdered by his friend Sm�agol,who stole the Ring.
Diamond of Long Cleeve : The wife of Thain Peregrin Took I and mother of Faramir Took I.
Dora Baggins : Frodo Baggins' aunt,the sister of Frodo's father Drogo.
Drogo Baggins : Frodo Baggins' father;he drowned in a boating accident with his wife Primula while Frodo was still young.
Dudo Baggins : Frodo Baggins' uncle,the younger brother of Frodo's father Drogo.
Eglantine Banks : The wife of Thain Peregrin Took I and mother of Faramir Took I.
Elanor Gardner : Called Elanor the Fair,the eldest child of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton;she married Fastred of Greenholm and they removed to the Westmarch of the Shire.Her son Elfstan was the founder of the Fairbairn family.
Esmeralda Took : A descendant of Gerontius the Old Took and younger sister to Thain Paladin II.She married Saradoc Brandybuck and was thus both Pippin Took's aunt and Merry Brandybuck's mother.
Everard Took : The youngest son of Adelard Took and great-great-grandson of Gerontius,the Old Took;hence a distant cousin of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins,Peregrin Took and Meriadoc Brandybuck.
Faramir Took I : The son of Thain Peregrin Took I of the Company of the Ring and Diamond of Long Cleeve; he succeeded his father to become Thain Faramir I.Named for Faramir,Prince of Ithilien.
Farmer Maggot : A hobbit who farmed lands in the Marish,in the Eastfarthing of the Shire.He was familiar with Tom Bombadil.
Fastolph Bolger : Fastolph was one the earliest of numerous Bolgers to marry into the Baggins family.He married Pansy Baggins,the sister of Bilbo's grandfather Mungo and so became his great-uncle.
Fastred of Greenholm : The husband of Elanor,the daughter of Samwise Gamgee.He was made Warden of Westmarch and removed to that region.
Ferumbras Took II : The elder of the two sons of Thain Isumbras III.His younger brother was the famous Bandobras Took,the victor of the Battle of Greenfields but as the elder brother it was Ferumbras who inherited his father's Thainship.He served as the Shire's twenty-fourth Thain for forty-two years and was succeeded in turn by his son Fortinbras.
Ferumbras Took III : The son of Thain Fortinbras II and Lalia Clayhanger,who inherited the Thainship from his father.It was during his time as Shire-thain that Bilbo Baggins' famous Birthday Party was held and though he is not mentioned in detailed accounts of the Party,we do know that he was present.He died in the year III 3015,just three years before Frodo set out from the Shire.He left no heir and the succession passed to his distant cousin Paladin.
Folco Boffin : A friend of Frodo Baggins in the Shire,who assisted with his removal to Buckland.
Fortinbras Took I : The twenty-fifth Thain of the Shire,who inherited the title from his father Ferumbras II and passed it on in turn to his only son Gerontius,who was to become famous as the Old Took.He was just two years old when his uncle Bandobras beat off a raiding band of Orcs in the Battle of Greenfields.He took on the Thainship more than fifty years later,by which time the Shire had settled into a more peaceful way of life- at least, it was unaffected by outside events during his forty-seven years as Thain.
Fortinbras Took II : The grandson of Gerontius, the Old Took,who inherited the title of Thain from his father, Isumbras IV.He became Thain just two years before Bilbo Baggins left Hobbiton for his adventures in the Wild. He married Lalia Clayhanger,who was to become a famous matriarch of the Took clan and came to be called Lalia the Great.
Fosco Baggins : The paternal grandfather of Frodo Baggins.He married Ruby Bolger and had three children:Dora, Drogo (Frodo's father) and Dudo.
Fredegar "Fatty" Bolger : A friend of Frodo Baggins in the Shire,who assisted with his removal to Buckland and impersonated him while he travelled eastward to evade suspicion.
Frodo Baggins (see Character Biographies).
Frodo Gardner : Second child and eldest son of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton;named for Frodo Baggins of the Company of the Ring.
Gerontius Took : Thain of the Shire,famed for his great age,for which reason he was popularly known as the Old Took.
Goldilocks Gardner : A daughter of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton,so named because her fair hair was rare among the Shire-hobbits.She married Thain Faramir I,son of Peregrin Took.
Gollum (see Character Biographies).
Gorbadoc Brandybuck : The son of Marmadoc Brandybuck,who inherited the title Master of Buckland from his father.He was renowned for his love of good food (hence,no doubt,his nickname 'Broadbelt') and his generous hospitality.It was during one of his famous feasts that Frodo's parents Drogo and Primula were lost in a boating accident.
Gorhendad Oldbuck : The founder of Buckland and of the Brandybuck family (when he crossed the River Brandywine from the Shire,he changed his name from Oldbuck).
Halfast "Hal" Gamgee : A cousin of Samwise Gamgee,the son of Sam's uncle Halfred of Overhill.While hunting in the Northfarthing one day,Halfast reportedly encountered a huge and peculiar being that he called a 'Tree-man'.
Halfred Gamgee : An elder brother of Samwise Gamgee,who removed to the Northfarthing of the Shire.
Halfred Greenhand : The son of Holman the greenhanded of Hobbiton,Halfred was the first Hobbit to use the name Greenhand as his family name.He belonged to the earlier generations of Sam Gamgee's family and though he wasn't himself one of Sam's direct ancestors,he did leave an important inheritance by carrying on the gardening tradition of his family.This tradition was passed on through his son Holman to Holman's cousin Hamfast Gamgee, and so to Sam himself.
Hamfast Gardner : A son of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton;named for his grandfather,Hamfast Gamgee.
Hamson Gamgee : Eldest brother of Samwise Gamgee,who removed to Tighfield to work with his uncle Andwise as a roper.
Hildifons Took : One of the many children of Gerontius,the Old Took;said to have gone off on a journey and never returned.
Hildigrim Took : The fourth child of Gerontius,the Old Took,who married Rosa Baggins and was thus very distantly related to both Bilbo and Frodo.Among his great-grandchildren were both Peregrin Took (the son of Hildigrim's grandson Paladin) and Meriadoc Brandybuck (the son of his granddaughter Esmeralda).Hildigrim never became Thain himself but the Thainship did eventually pass to his descendants,so that Paladin II and his line held that distinction.
Hob Gammidge : The son of Wiseman Gamwich,who must have travelled with his father when the family relocated from their original home,the village of Gamwich itself,to take up a life in Tighfield.Hob made his living in Tighfield as a roper and so was the founder of long family tradition.He had a son,Hobson,through whom he became the grandfather of Hamfast Gamgee and the great-grandfather of Sam Gamgee of the Fellowship of the Ring.In his older years,Hob acquired the nickname 'Old Gammidgy',a play on his own name 'Gammidge' which was itself a corruption of the village name Gamwich.This playful name itself became transformed into the better known 'Gamgee' and was the origin of Hamfast's and Samwise's family name.
Hobson : The son of Hob Gammidge,who was in turn the father of Hamfast 'Gaffer' Gamgee and the grandfather of Samwise Gamgee,who found fame on the Quest of Mount Doom.Hobson,who was the first member of the family to adopt the name 'Gamgee',was the unnamed 'grand-dad' of Sam's who held a rope-walk in Tighfield in the Shire.
Holman Greenhand : The Greenhands were descended from Holman the greenhanded and Holman's namesake and grandson,Holman Greenhand,was at least the third of the line to tend the gardens of Hobbiton.Holman was the gardener at Bag End for Bilbo Baggins and perhaps also for his father Bungo.In about the year III 2941,he took on his young relation Hamfast Gamgee as an apprentice.Hamfast eventually became the gardener at Bag End himself, and was followed by his son Samwise.In a curious and unlikely way,Holman was instrumental in the winning of the War of the Ring.One morning in the spring of III 2941,Bag End was visited by the Wizard Gandalf.Bilbo was away from home for the Elves' New Year,so Gandalf struck up a conversation with Holman.It was Holman's description of his employer that encouraged Gandalf to include Bilbo in the journey to the Lonely Mountain,which in turn led to the finding of the One Ring,the means through which Sauron was ultimately defeated.If not for the part of Holman Greenhand,then,the western lands might well have fallen under the yoke of the Dark Lord.
Holman "Long Horn" Cotton : An early member of the Cotton family and in fact the first to use 'Cotton' as a surname.He came from Bywater near Hobbiton and presumably farmed the same land,down South Lane,as his son Tolman years later.Holman's cousin was his namesake,Holman Greenhand the gardener,whose gardening tradition would eventually passed on to Hamfast Gamgee and his son,Sam.
Isengar Took : One of the many children of Gerontius,the Old Took;famous for having gone to sea in his youth (a remarkable feat for a Hobbit).
Isengrim Took II : The twenty-second Shire-thain the ninth descendant of Isumbras Took I to hold that title.He lived at the time when pipe-weed was introduced to the Shire;it was first grown just a few years before Isengrim became Thain.He is perhaps best known as the founder of Great Smials,which was to become the ancestral home of the Took family in the Tookland of the Shire.
Isengrim Took III : The eldest of the twelve children of Gerontius,the Old Took.Because of his father's famous longevity,Isengrim was already an old hobbit himself when he inherited the title of Thain,being no less than eighty-eight years old.He did not survive long in his new office and died just ten years after his father.He was succeeded by his younger brother,who became Thain Isumbras Took IV.
Isumbras Took I : The thirteenth Thain of the Shire, and the first of the Took line.Isumbras I was a distant ancestor of Peregrin Took of the Company of the Ring.
Isumbras Took III : The eleventh Thain of the Took line and twenty-third overall,Isumbras succeeded his father Isengrim II.He had two sons,of whom the younger,Bandobras,became famous as the 'Bullroarer'.Isumbras' years as Thain were a time of hardship and privation - his son Bandobras beat back a raiding Orc-band at the Battle of Greenfields,while the end of his Thainship saw the Long Winter fall on the Shire.He was succeeded by his elder son,who became Thain Ferumbras II.
Isumbras Took IV : The Old Took was Thain of the Shire for seventy-two years,so that his eldest son Isengrim was eighty-eight when he inherited the title.Due to his great age,Isengrim was Thain for just ten years and was succeeded by his younger brother,who became Thain Isumbras IV.Isumbras was ninety-two years old when he inherited the title and his Thainship was even shorter than his brother's - after nine years,he died and was succeeded by his son Fortibras.
Lalia Clayhanger : The wife of Thain Fortinbras II,who long outlived her husband and ruled the Tooks of Great Smials for twenty-two years.She was famous for her tremendous girth (she was known in less polite circles as Lalia the Fat),which was rumoured to have prevented her attendance of Bilbo's famous Birthday Party.She died the following year in an unfortunate incident involving a tipping wheelchair and a flight of garden steps.
Largo Baggins : Great-grandfather of Frodo Baggins and great-uncle of Bilbo,Largo married Tanta Hornblower.
Laura Grubb : Bilbo Baggins' paternal grandmother,she married Mungo Baggins and had five children;the eldest was Bilbo's father Bungo.
Lily Baggins : A great-aunt of Bilbo Baggins,Lily married Togo Goodbody and had many descendants.
Lobelia Bracegirdle : A renowned character of the Shire,she married Bilbo's cousin Otho Sackville-Baggins.Her envy of Bag End was well-known but she stood up bravely to the Men of Saruman when they invaded the Shire in the last stages of the War of the Ring.
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins : See Above.
Longo Baggins : An uncle of Bilbo Baggins,Longo founded the Sackville-Baggins family when he married Camellia Sackville.Otho Sackville-Baggins was their son.
Lotho Sackville-Baggins : The son of Otho and Lobelia Sackville-Baggins,who briefly became the leader or Chief,of the Shire while it was under the control of Saruman during the War of the Ring.His fate remains unknown but it seems likely he was murdered by Gr�ma Wormtongue.
Malva Headstrong : A famous and important Hobbit.She wedded Gormadoc Brandybuck about two hundred and fifty years before the War of the Ring and was the ancestor of all the Brandybucks,including Merry,who appear in The Lord of the Rings.
Marcho : The Fallohide Hobbit who,with his brother Blanco,set out from Bree to settle the lands that were to become known as the Shire.
Marigold Gamgee : Youngest child of Hamfast Gamgee and Bell Goodchild;a sister of Samwise Gamgee of the Company of the Ring.
Marmadas Brandybuck : A descendant of Marmadoc Brandybuck,the father of Merimas,Mentha and Melilot.
May Gamgee : A daughter of Hamfast Gamgee and Bell Goodchild and sister to Samwise Gamgee of the Company of the Ring.
Melilot Brandybuck : A daughter of Marmadas Brandybuck and a distant cousin of both Meriadoc Brandybuck and Frodo Baggins.She was present at Bilbo's Birthday Party in 3001 (Third Age),when she was just sixteen years old.The only part she played in the great events of that time was to dance the springle-ring at the party with Everard Took.
Mentha Brandybuck : A daughter of Marmadas Brandybuck,she was present at Bilbo's Birthday Party.
Merry Brandybuck (see Character Biographies).
Merimas Brandybuck : Eldest child and only son,of Marmadas Brandybuck,he was present at Bilbo's Birthday Party.
Merry Gardner : Son of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton; named for Meriadoc 'Merry' Brandybuck of the Company of the Ring.
Mrs Lilly Cotton : The wife of Tolman Cotton of Bywater and mother to Rose Cotton,who would marry Samwise Gamgee after the War of the Ring.She makes a very brief appearance in the text of The Lord of the Rings,where she is referred to simply as 'Mrs. Cotton'.
Mrs Proudfoot : The wife of Odo Everard Proudfoot,a hobbit of the Shire.
Mungo Baggins : Bilbo Baggins' paternal grandfather,Mungo married Laura Grubb and had five children;the eldest was Bilbo's father Bungo.
Nob : With Bob,one of the two Hobbit servants of Barliman Butterbur at the inn of the Prancing Pony in Bree.
Odo Everard Proudfoot : A hobbit of the Shire.
Otho Sackville-Baggins : The son of Longo Baggins and Camellia Sackville.Otho's father Longo was Bilbo Baggins' uncle,making Otho himself Bilbo's cousin and heir.He and his wife Lobelia eagerly anticipated their inheritance:Bilbo's home at Bag End.Otho would never inherit that smial,though,because Bilbo changed his will to make Frodo Baggins his heir.Eventually,Frodo sold Bag End to Lobelia but Otho had died six years earlier and never owned the home he had coveted throughout his life.
Paladin Took II : Thirty-second Thain of the Shire.Paladin was married to Eglantine Banks and together they had four children.The eldest three were daughters,Pearl,Pimpernel and Pervinca but the youngest was a son.This was the famous Peregrin Took,who travelled with the Fellowship of the Ring and would inherit Paladin's title to become Thain Peregrin I.
Pansy Baggins : A great-aunt of Bilbo Baggins,the sister of Bilbo's grandfather Mungo;she married Fastolph Bolger.
Pearl Took : The eldest child of Thain Paladin Took II and Eglantine Banks;sister to Peregrin Took I of the Company of the Ring.
Peregrin Took (see Character Biographies).
Pervinca Took : Third child and youngest daughter of Thain Paladin Took II and Eglantine Banks;sister to Peregrin Took I of the Company of the Ring.
Pimpernel Took : The second child of Thain Paladin Took II and Eglantine Banks;sister to Peregrin Took of the Company of the Ring.
Pippin Gardner : A son of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton;named for Peregrin 'Pippin' Took of the Company of the Ring.
Ponto Baggins : A great-uncle of Bilbo Baggins,the younger brother of Bilbo's grandfather Mungo;he married Mimosa Bunce.
Primrose Gardner : A daughter of Sam Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
Robin Gardner : A son of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton;perhaps named for his father's old friend,Robin Smallburrow.
Robin "Cock-robin" Smallburrow : A hobbit from Hobbiton in the heart of the Shire,who put himself forward as a Shirriff six years before the War of the Ring began.He became caught up in the events of that War and was pressed into service by the villainous Chief at Bag End.
Rorimac "Goldfather" Brandybuck : The son of Gorbadoc Brandybuck,who inherited the title of Master of Buckland from his father.He was present at Bilbo's famous Birthday Party and indeed was noted as being the first to suspect that Bilbo's disappearance at that party meant that 'Mad Baggins' had gone off on another adventure.He was nearly a hundred years old at that time (being commonly known as 'Old Rory') and he lived for another seven years.The title 'Master of Buckland' passed on to his elder son Saradoc and in time to his grandson Meriadoc of the Company of the Ring.
Rose : The youngest daughter of Holman the greenhanded,who married Cotman and founded the Cotton family.
Rose Cotton : Daughter of Tolman Cotton and Lily Brown,she married Samwise Gamgee after his return from the Quest of Mount Doom.Together they had thirteen children.
Rose Gardner : Daughter of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton;presumably named after her mother.
Ruby Bolger : Frodo Baggins' paternal grandmother,the mother of his father Drogo.
Ruby Gardner : The eleventh child and youngest daughter,of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
Samwise Gamgee (see Character Biographies).
Saradoc Brandybuck : The Master of Buckland at the time of the War of the Ring.He was the father of Merry Brandybuck,who travelled into the south with the Company of the Ring.
Sigismond Took : A grandson of Gerontius,the Old Took and himself the grandfather of Fredegar 'Fatty' Bolger.
Sm�agol (see Character Biographies).
Tanta Hornblower : The wife of Largo Baggins and great-grandmother of Frodo Baggins.
Ted Sandyman : The son of Sandyman the Hobbiton miller,who fell under the influence of Lotho Sackville-Baggins during the War of the Ring and became a collaborator with 'Sharkey's' regime.
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 eastward journey to Bree on several occasions.It was there,it is generally supposed,that he came across the cultivation and smoking of pipe-weed.Tobold must have collected some of these plants and brought them back to his own garden in Longbottom.(At least,this is the most likely version of events - Tobold himself remained silent on the matter).The Southfarthing seems to have been ideal for the growing of pipe-weed and it became one the Shire's most important industries.Among the different varieties that were developed,one was named 'Old Toby' in honour of Tobold its first grower.
Tolman 'Tom' Cotton jr : The son and namesake of the Tolman Cotton who helped rally the Shire-hobbits after the return of the Travellers.He married Sam Gamgee's youngest sister,Marigold.
Tolman 'Tom' Cotton sr : A respected Hobbit of the Shire, who played an important part in rallying the Shire-hobbits during the last days of the War of the Ring.He became Sam Gamgee's father-in-law through his daughter.
Tolman Gardner : Thirteenth and youngest child of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton;named for his grand father,Tolman Cotton.
Will Whitfoot : The Mayor of Michel Delving (and therefore of the Shire) at the time of the War of the Ring.He was renowned as being the fattest hobbit in the Westfarthing and was affectionately referred to as Old Will or Old Flourdumpling.He was one of the first to be placed in the Lockholes during Sharkey's reign in the Shire but survived the experience.
Wiseman Gamwich : The son of Hamfast,who took his name from his traditional family home in the village of Gamwich.Wiseman removed from Gamwich,though,to Tighfield.He was the great-great-grandfather of Sam Gamgee of the Fellowship of the Ring.
