The Old Took
Gerontius Took; the long-lived chief of the Tooks
Name and Repute
The Old Took (Gerontius) was the chief of the Tooks and Thain of the Shire, the long-lived founder of the family’s renown: he was said to have gone off with a fairy lady in his youth (as the tale has it), would frisk with the Elves, and lived a hundred and thirty years - a wonder to all the Shire.
In the Tale
Bilbo Baggins was a kinsman of the Old Took through his mother Belladonna; the memory of the Old Took’s riotous age, and the tales of his acquaintance with the elves, were part of the unexpectedness of the Baggins blood.
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.
Nach oben ↑