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If ever a sentence has cried out for a fan fiction (or RPG), it is this one:
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...the fabulous Belladonna Took, one of the three remarkable daughters of the Old Took...
Wouldn't you just love to meet Bilbo's mother (at least in her younger days)? Of course, add to that the following one about the 'fairy wife' of a Took ancestor; I know of at least one well-written fan fiction on that notion (by mark12_30).
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On the one hand the saga of the Took daughters would
have made a great read, pity JRRT didn't get around
to it (perhaps with the lifespan of an elf he might have).
On the other hand, it's an example of his use of barely
glimpsed vistas to give depth to his tales (as he alludes
to in "Letters"). It's one of the parts of his writings that
makes them so much more real then, say, Isaac Asimov's
Foundation trilogy, which just doesn't have that "historic/mythic"
feel to it.
And what did the Took girls do that made them so remarkable?
Imagine the mother/father debates of Bilbo's parents when
he evinced his tookish adventurous side.