LotR --- Appendix C -- Family Trees

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Thanks to davem and modern technology, I've been able to compare the Boffin family tree which has now been published with the one I thought up for Folco. Actually, I didn't do too badly - Donnamira Boffin, née Took, is his great-grandmother, just as I had thought! So he does belong right in the opening into which I placed him. A few details vary with Tolkien's own - I had guessed at a birth date and have him four years younger than Tolkien did, which is pretty close. And his father is named there, so that I do not have to use another name for him.

I won't be able to change the age in my fan fiction, since I had made him the same age as Merry there. Still, there's nothing essential in my version that wouldn't be able to fit into what Tolkien revealed in his own Hobbit family tree. I find it interesting that he made one for a character that he dropped in the book - only three mentions, and then Folco disappears completely. But I guess that's typical...