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“A decent respectable hobbit was Mr. Drogo Baggins; there was never much to tell of him, till he was…
tolkienmatters: “A decent respectable hobbit was Mr. Drogo Baggins; there was never much to tell of him, till he was drowned.’
‘Drowned?’ said several voices. They had heard this and other darker rumours before, of course; but hobbits have a passion for family history, and they were ready to hear it again.
‘Well, so they say,’ said the Gaffer. ‘You see: Mr. Drogo, he married poor Miss Primula Brandybuck. She was our Mr. Bilbo’s first cousin on the mother’s side (her mother being the youngest of the Old Took’s daughters); and Mr. Drogo was his second cousin. So Mr. Frodo is his first and second cousin, once removed either way, as the saying is, if you follow me. And Mr. Drogo was staying at Brandy Hall with his father-in-law, old Master Gorbadoc, as he often did after his marriage (him being partial to his vittles, and old Gorbadoc keeping a mighty generous table); and he went out boating on the Brandywine River; and he and his wife were drowned, and poor Mr. Frodo only a child and all.’
‘I’ve heard they went on the water after dinner in the moonlight,’ said Old Noakes; ‘and it was Drogo’s weight as sunk the boat.’
‘And I heard she pushed him in, and he pulled her in after him,’ said Sandyman, the Hobbiton miller.
‘You shouldn’t listen to all you hear, Sandyman,’ said the Gaffer, who did not much like the miller. ‘There isn’t no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without looking further for the cause of trouble.”
- The deaths (or murder) of Frodo’s parents, Drogo & Piluma Baggins. Fellowship of the Ring, A Long-Expected Party.
Illustrations by Richard ‘Horus’ Engels (1914–1991) for a 1957 German edition of THE HOBBIT.
Illustrations by Richard ‘Horus’ Engels (1914–1991) for a 1957 German edition of THE HOBBIT.
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