Did Bill Ferny die?

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Eomer of the Rohirrim

You are on the ball as ever Estelyn!

Well, Mithalwen, if you are right about this so called 'twin brother' then I guess we should track back to all the mentions of Ferny in the book and look for bits which just don't feel right....

Once when drunk, Aragorn proclaimed that Bill actually had a twin sister as well. He claimed that she had 'come on to him' big-time in Bree. Merry and Sam in attendance were not sure what to make of this claim.

Ah here you touch on the deeper, darker secrets of the Ferny clan. As I can avow, from my unavoidable work-related contact with accountants of our own culture - many of them affect extremes of behaviour in order to counter-balance the extreme dullness of their professional lives..... If by chance this twin "sister" was named Roberta - or something rather more exotic than is common among breelanders - Felicia, Lola or similar ... well we may have our answer.