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Therefore I've always thought that quote about their 'sons' must have been a slip perhaps intended to refer to whomever Merry passed the Headship of the Brandybuck family to?
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Good thought; maybe Tolkien was using the term "son" temporarily to refer to whoever Merry chose as an heir, and he overlooked it during the editing process. Or something like that. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]
Another thing this topic has got me wondering about... maybe, if he didn't have any children of his own, Merry and his wife adopted a son, and that's who the passage was referring to? Does anyone know if hobbits would have adopted? Bit of a flimsy and probably silly idea, I know, but it was just something I was thinking about. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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