[Child of the 7th Age]

Trotter sounded like an interesting character, and I definitely would have liked to read some stories about him. However, the whole thrust of the LOTR is the passing of the Age of the Elves and the new dominance of the Age of Man. Given this cosmological shift, Tolkien was right to focus on a figure like Aragorn. You can't have the beginning of a new Age of Man without some extraodinary representative from the human race, and Aragorn seems to fit that role well. The whole Strider/Aragorn thing is a great way to tie into this. Aragorn's Elvish blood and his marriage to Arwen also help to underline this whole shift taking place in the center of Tolkien's universe.

I do wish Tolkien had written more about Trotter in another place and context. I am definitely biased in favor of hobbits and would absolutely have loved to read more about another hobbit, especially one that was so obviously a character and standing out from the general trend of the community. (Boots, really? I can't believe that.)

Has anyone tried writing any fan fic centering on Trotter? What a lot of fun you could have, since the field on who he is and what he did is wide open. sharon, the 7th age hobbit