LotR --- Appendix C -- Family Trees - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Estelyn Telcontar · 12-16-2005, 03:18 PM

This appendix consists entirely of four Hobbit family trees, one for each of the members of the Fellowship. Additionally, they include a number of characters mentioned at Bilbo's Birthday Party. In some cases, information as to marriage partners of various hobbits has been recorded here.

These family trees are, as are several of the other appendices, an invaluable source of background information for those who wish to write Hobbit fan fiction and/or RPGs. Have you pored over them to find out more about your favourite Shire characters? Or have you always skipped this appendix?

I have a marker in here, since I use these for my Folco fan fiction. Though he is a canonical character, he is not included anywhere, so I had to find a place for him and figure out how he's related to others. Interestingly, it worked so well that I imagine myself finding the spot that Tolkien would have had for him, had he not been forgotten...

I also know of a planned RPG in which hobbit characters are to be canonical; since it takes place much earlier than the War of the Ring, they are to be chosen from one of the family trees!

How have you made use of this appendix? Did you find any obscure information that interested you?

12-16-2005, 03:18 PM	#1
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	LotR --- Appendix C -- Family Trees This appendix consists entirely of four Hobbit family trees, one for each of the members of the Fellowship. Additionally, they include a number of characters mentioned at Bilbo's Birthday Party. In some cases, information as to marriage partners of various hobbits has been recorded here. These family trees are, as are several of the other appendices, an invaluable source of background information for those who wish to write Hobbit fan fiction and/or RPGs. Have you pored over them to find out more about your favourite Shire characters? Or have you always skipped this appendix? I have a marker in here, since I use these for my Folco fan fiction. Though he is a canonical character, he is not included anywhere, so I had to find a place for him and figure out how he's related to others. Interestingly, it worked so well that I imagine myself finding the spot that Tolkien would have had for him, had he not been forgotten... I also know of a planned RPG in which hobbit characters are to be canonical; since it takes place much earlier than the War of the Ring, they are to be chosen from one of the family trees! How have you made use of this appendix? Did you find any obscure information that interested you? __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

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