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01-21-2008, 03:22 PM
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Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles)
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Frodo Brandybuck?!
"Baggins is his name, but he's more than half a Brandybuck, they say," Old Noakes of Bywater comments in The Ivy Bush at the beginning of LotR. Later, Lobelia Sackville-Baggins says, "You don't belong here; you're no Baggins - you - you're a Brandybuck!"
Rereading that got me thinking - Frodo's mother was a Brandybuck, and after the death of his parents he grew up among the Brandybucks in Buckland. That must have formed him more than we usually realize. What influence do you think his Brandybuck upbringing had on him? Was it a part of what prepared him to be the Ringbearer? Was the "mixed marriage" of his parents necessary to give him a balanced character? How did he become such an isolated person despite growing up in the abundance of family surrounding him there?
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