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[Kath]

Ah but Folwren the dates TGWBS has come up with are in fact correct! I just checked the appendices (B and C) and all the dates are in there.

on account of the lack of birth control that they had, it's impossible for Sam to have planned his children around the politicial calender.

Untrue, it would actually make it easier. Just make sure there are no marital relations going on until you want a child to be created and tada! (Well hopefully if everything is working properly ). And once Sam and Rosie got a bit older and couldn't do this anymore that's why their children came in handy. Everyone knows smarmy politicians simpering over babies is a major crowd-puller, at least to those members of the crowd that are senile.

And to continue bashing Sam how come he got to go over the sea anyway? He had the Ring for an incredibly short time and yet still he is somehow granted this blessing, when Merry and Pippin just die! So they never held the Ring, Merry helped kill the Witchking!