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In the spring of SY 1402 [Lalia's] clumsy attendant let the heavy chair run over the threshold and tipped Lalia down the flight of steps into the garden. So ended a reign and life that might well have rivalled that of the Great Took.
It was widely rumoured that the attendant was Pearl (Pippin's sister) though the Tooks tried to keep the matter within the family. At the celebration of Ferumbras' accession the displeasure and regret of the family was formally expressed by the exclusion of Pearl from the ceremony and feast.
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Now you should know better than to listen to rumours,
TGWBS!
After all, wasn't it a short time later in that same letter that we are told Pearl appears later, wearing her name-jewels, restored to whatever honor she lost during this "time of rumour-mongering?" Even her family believed her and exonerated her, and no one ever proved anything!
Cheers!
Lyta (not quite the Took family historian)