Little to say on this on this Appendix. The new 50th Anniversary edition of LotR now includes six family trees, rather than four (the two others, Bolger of Budgeford & Boffin of the Yale, were ommitted from the First Edition for reasons of space). Apart from noting that Fredegar's great, great, great grandmother has my favourite Hobbit name by far: Dina Diggle, I can't think of much to say.
This does allow me an excuse to bring up a favourite tidbit of Hobbit history, though, as in the LotR Readers' Companion section for Appendix C, Hammond & Scull mention the story in Tolkien's letter to AC Nunn, regarding Lalia the Great ('or less courteously the Fat'), wife of Isumbras IV.
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Lalia is said to have died when her attendant (rumoured to be Pippin's sister Pearl) let her wheeled chair slip down a flight of steps.
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