Will Whitfoot is the long-serving Mayor of Hobbiton:īig Folk could hardly beg for lodgings in hobbit-holes. Reports that the Puddifoot matriarch ran a tea shop remain unconfirmed. There was a wide wooden gate opening out of the wall into the lane.įellowship of the Ring Book I Chapter 4: "A Short Cut to Mushrooms" The Maggots, and the Puddifoots of Stock, and most of the inhabitants of the Marish, were house-dwellers and this farm was stoutly built of brick and had a high wall all round it. They went along the lane, until they saw the thatched roofs of a large house and farm-buildings peeping out among the trees ahead. The Puddifoots are a farming family, neighbours of Farmer Maggot: Christopher Tolkien re-printed it in The Peoples of Middle-earth, and it's transcribed by the good people at The Thain's Book (hand-drawn circles added by me):Īs you can see 2, this means Nina is Frodo's second cousin, twice removed (by marriage) Nina Lightfoot married into the Bolger family her name appears in the Bolger family tree, which was dropped from the Appendices before publication 1. That's a dark bad place, if half the tales be true.' 'And no wonder they're queer,' put in Daddy Twofoot (the Gaffer's next-door neighbour), 'If they live on the wrong side of the Brandywine River, and right agin the Old Forest. There were many Bagginses and Boffins, and also many Tooks and Brandybucks there were various Grubbs (relations of Bilbo Baggins' grandmother), and various Chubbs (connexions of his Took grandfather) and a selection of Burrowses, Bolgers, Bracegirdles, Brockhouses, Goodbodies, Hornblowers and Proudfoots.įellowship of the Ring Book I Chapter 1: "A Long-expected Party"ĭaddy Twofoot is one of the Gaffer's barmates: The Proudfoot family is invited to the special pavilion at Bilbo's Party: There are a few, but far from the majority:
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