LotR --- Appendix C -- Family Trees

[davem]

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.

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.