Notable individuals of the Hobbits (21).
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Ring-bearer
Bilbo Baggins of Bag End was the respectable Hobbit whom Gandalf sent as burglar with Thorin Oakenshield's company to the Lonely Mountain, and who came home with a golden ring from beneath the Misty Mountains. His finding of the One Ring, his mercy to Gollum and his book set the whole War of the Ring in motion.
Ring-bearer
Frodo Baggins, Bilbo's heir, was the Ring-bearer who carried the One Ring from the Shire to the fire of Mount Doom. Wounded in body and spirit by the journey, he saved the Shire but could not enjoy it, and sailed into the West with the last of the Elves.
Gollum, once the Stoor-hobbit Sméagol of the Gladden Fields, murdered his friend Déagol for the One Ring and was hollowed out by it over five centuries in the dark. Guide and betrayer of Frodo, he took the Ring at the Cracks of Doom and fell with it into the fire, accomplishing the quest that the Ring-bearer could not.
Ring-bearer
Samwise Gamgee, Frodo's gardener, was the companion who carried the Ring-bearer to Mount Doom and briefly bore the Ring himself. He restored the Shire after the Scouring, was seven times Mayor, and at the last, as the final Ring-bearer, sailed into the West.
Master of Buckland
Meriadoc Brandybuck, heir of Buckland and organiser of the conspiracy that brought Frodo's friends on the quest, became esquire to King Théoden and helped Éowyn destroy the Witch-king on the Pelennor. He later led the hobbits at Bywater, ruled Buckland as Master, and wrote the Shire's first books of lore.
Thain of the Shire
Peregrin Took, youngest of the Fellowship, was the heir of the Thain whose curiosity drew Sauron's eye through the palantír and whose loyalty saved Faramir from the pyre. He fought at the Black Gate, roused the Tookland against the ruffians, and ruled the Shire as its thirty-second Thain.
Bandobras Took, the Bullroarer, was the giant among hobbits who could ride a horse and who broke an Orc invasion at the Battle of Greenfields in T.A. 2747, knocking the head from the goblin-king Golfimbul. He was the only hobbit warrior of legend before the War of the Ring.
Maid of Honour to Queen Arwen
Elanor the Fair, eldest child of Samwise and Rose, was born on the second anniversary of the Ring's destruction and named for the golden flower of Lórien. A maid of honour to Queen Arwen, she married Fastred of Greenholm, settled at the Undertowers, received the Red Book from her father and founded the Fairbairns who kept it.
Farmer of Bamfurlong
Farmer Maggot of Bamfurlong in the Marish, the mushroom-grower whose dogs terrified the young Frodo, turned a Black Rider off his land, sheltered the hobbits and drove them to the ferry. Tom Bombadil counted him a friend and a hobbit of deep roots.
Thain of the Shire
Gerontius Took, the Old Took, was Thain of the Shire for over forty years, father of twelve children, friend of Gandalf, and at a hundred and thirty the longest-lived hobbit on record until Bilbo. Nearly every hobbit in the story of the Ring descended from him.
Gardener of Bag End
Hamfast Gamgee, the Gaffer, was Bilbo's gardener at Bag End for forty years and the father of Samwise. An authority on potatoes and on other people's business, he was turned out of Bagshot Row under the ruffians and lived to see it rebuilt as New Row.
Mistress of Bag End (briefly)
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, born a Bracegirdle of Hardbottle, spent eighty years coveting Bag End and feuding with Bilbo, only to be imprisoned by her own son's ruffians when she attacked them with her umbrella. Released a heroine, she gave Bag End back to Frodo and her fortune to the homeless.
Chief Shirriff (self-styled)
Lotho Sackville-Baggins, the son of Lobelia, bought up half the Southfarthing with Saruman's money, imported Men to enforce his rule and made himself Chief of the Shire, only to become a prisoner in his own hole and to be murdered there by Wormtongue.
Founders of the Shire
Marcho and Blanco, two Fallohide brothers of Bree, obtained leave from King Argeleb II in T.A. 1601 to settle the land beyond the Brandywine and led the great crossing of the Bridge of Stonebows that founded the Shire. Shire Reckoning counts its years from their crossing.
Mistress of Bag End
Rose Cotton of Bywater, the farmer's daughter whom Samwise Gamgee thought of on the road to Mordor, became his wife, the mistress of Bag End and the mother of thirteen children. Her death after sixty-two years of marriage set Sam on his last journey to the Havens.
Thain of the Shire
Bucca of the Marish was the first Thain of the Shire, chosen in T.A. 1979 to hold the authority of the vanished king after the fall of Arthedain. His descendants the Oldbucks held the Thainship for twelve generations before becoming the Brandybucks of Buckland.
Déagol was the Stoor-hobbit of the Gladden Fields who pulled the One Ring out of the bed of the Anduin, where it had lain since the death of Isildur, and was strangled for it within the hour by his friend Sméagol.
Drogo Baggins and Primula Brandybuck were the parents of Frodo, a respectable Baggins and a daughter of the Master of Buckland who drowned together in a boating accident on the Brandywine when their son was twelve. Their deaths made Frodo a ward of Brandy Hall and, in time, Bilbo's heir.
Fredegar Bolger, called Fatty, was the conspirator who stayed behind at Crickhollow as Frodo's decoy, raised Buckland against the Black Riders, and later led a band of rebels in the hills of Scary until the ruffians shut him in the Lockholes.
Thain of the Shire
Paladin Took, a farmer of Whitwell who unexpectedly became the thirty-first Thain, was the father of Peregrin and the only leader in the Shire to defy Lotho's ruffians, holding the Tookland against them until his son came home.
Ted Sandyman, the miller's son of Hobbiton, was the sceptic who jeered at Sam's tales of walking trees in the Green Dragon and later the collaborator who worked the ruffians' new mill that fouled the Water. He is the Shire's example of the hobbit who welcomed the Troubles.