Only concerning Hobbits trivia

[Child of the 7th Age]

Evisse,

Are you referring to the statement in "An Unexpected Party" that "It was often said (in other families) that long ago one of the Took ancestors must have taken a fairy wife"?

I have an earlier edition that even puts this in more drastic terms:

It had always been said that long ago one or other of the Tooks had married into a fairy family (the less friendly said a goblin family)....

The reference to goblins was apparently dropped about 1966.

Cami/Child