The Families of the Shire
the kinship of the Ring-bearers: Baggins, Took, Brandybuck and Gamgee
The four great families about the tale of the Ring — the Bagginses, the Tooks, the Brandybucks and the Gamgees — bound by marriage to Bilbo and Frodo and by service to Samwise. ✕ joins a married couple; arrows show descent.
The Shire about the Ring
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A["Bungo Baggins ✕ Belladonna Took"] --> B["Bilbo Baggins"]
A --> C["Drogo Baggins ✕ Primula Brandybuck"]
C --> D["Frodo Baggins"]
The Brandybucks and Tooks
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BR["Brandy Hall — the Masters of Buckland"] --> ME["Merry Brandybuck"]
SM["The Great Smials — the Thains"] --> PI["Pippin Took"]
The Gamgees
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GF["Hamfast the Gaffer ✕ Bell Goodchild"] --> SA["Samwise ✕ Rose Cotton"]
SA --> ELN["Elanor and the children"]
Notes
- Bilbo was Frodo’s first cousin once removed (their fathers Bungo and Drogo were cousins): the Ring passed from Bilbo to his kin, not to a stranger.
- Frodo’s mother Primula was a Brandybuck, and Pippin was of the Took kindred — so Merry and Pippin were his cousins too, and the four hobbits who left the Shire were all of one family web; that kinship set the Ring, and the Quest, upon the road.
Related
Werke: die Quellen sind seitenübergreifend die Bücher von J.R.R. und Christopher Tolkien (Silmarillion, Hobbit, Herr der Ringe, Unfinished Tales, History of Middle-earth, Nature of Middle-earth u. a.) — eigene Zusammenfassung. Siehe die Concordance und den README der Quelle für die Einzelbelege.
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