How Old?

[Sweatpea Knotwise]

I happened to have my ROTK handy, and in Appendix B, it states that in the year 1469 Sam was 96. It then says that in 1482 (thirteen years later) these events occurred...

Death of Mistress Rose, wife of master Samwise, on Mid-year's Day. On September 22 Master Samwise rides out from Bag End. he comes to the Tower Hills, and is last seen by Elanor, to whom he gives the Red Book afterwards kept by the Fairbairns. Among them the tradition is handed down from Elanor that Samwise passed the Towers, and went to the Gray Havens, and passed over Sea, last of the Ring-bearers.

This would make Sam 109 at the time he left the Shire.

[ July 25, 2002: Message edited by: Sweatpea Knotwise ]