In J. R. R. Tolkien'sJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He was an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon language (Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor ...J. R. R. Tolkien's fictionalFiction (from the Latin fingere, "to form, create") is the genre of imaginative narrative, including novels and short stories. More generally, fiction is written and oral imaginative literature, including comic books, fables, fairy tales, films, plays, poems and video games. Works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary, and may include real people, places, and events. Fiction is largely perceived as a form of art and/or entertainment, although not all fiction is necessarily artistic. Fiction may be created for the ...fictional universe of Middle-earthMiddle-earth refers to the fictional 'mortal' lands where some of the stories of author J. R. R. Tolkien take place, as opposed to Aman or 'undying' lands, where the angelic Valar live together with most of the High Elves. The term's origin lies in a translation of the Middle English middel-erde which developed from Old English middangeard. Tolkien said that his Middle-earth is our Earth, but in a fictional period in the past, estimating the end of the Third ...Middle-earth, the Brandybuck clan was a powerful HobbitIn J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Hobbits are a diminutive race that inhabit the lands of Arda. According to the author, Hobbits are a "variety"Tolkien, J. R. R. Guide to the Names of the Lord of the Rings, "The Firstborn" or separate "branch" of the race of Men (Homo sapiens), but they consider themselves a separate race. They live in the Shire and in Bree in northwestern Middle-earth. Hobbits first appear in the ...Hobbit family. They were mostly of StoorishIn their earliest recorded history the Stoors, like the other Hobbits, lived in the Vale of Anduin. They were a riverside people that dwelt in the Gladden Fields, and were fishermen. They were broader in build than the other Hobbits, and had large hands and feet. Among the Hobbits, the Stoors most resembled typical Men (for as Tolkien later says, Hobbits were properly an offshoot of Men rather than a separate race, though they themselves considered themselves separate). Stoors were the only Hobbits who grew facial hair, and only ...Stoorish blood, but with a FallohideIn J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, the Fallohides are one of the three races of Hobbits. The Fallohides were the least common of Hobbits, and in their earliest known history they lived in the forested region where later was the Eagles Eyrie near the High Pass to the north, in the Vale of Anduin. To their south lived the far more numerous Harfoots, and far south in the Gladden Fields lived the Stoors. The ...Fallohide strain.

The family began as the Oldbuck clan, who named themselves such apparently after a Bucca of the Marish, who became the first Thain"Thain" is a common variant spelling of "Thane" or "Thegn", an Anglo-Saxon term for a minor noble, probably best known for its use in Shakespeare's Macbeth. In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, the Thain was the traditional military leader of the Hobbits of the Shire. The Hobbits first chose a Thain to rule them ...Thain of the ShireThe Shire is a region of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, described in The Lord of the Rings and other works. The Shire refers to an area settled exclusively by Hobbits and largely removed from the goings-on in the rest of the realm. It is located in the northwest of the continent Middle-earth, ...Shire. Ten Oldbuck Thains followed, until Gordenhad Oldbuck, the eleventh Thain, crossed into BucklandNo quick definition available.Buckland over the river BrandywineIn the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, the Baranduin or Brandywine River is a river of Middle-earth. It is 550 miles long, and the fourth-longest river in Middle-earth behind the Anduin, the Celduin (or Running), and the Greyflood/Hoarwell (or Gwathló/Mitheithel). Flowing out of Nenuial (Lake Evendim) in northern Eriador, the river flows eastward for about 60 miles before turning generally southward; after about another 120 miles it flows ...Brandywine, passing the Thainship to the Took clanIn J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, the Took clan was one of the most famous Hobbit families. ("Took" pronounced like "Two-k", not like "book" or "took" as in the past tense of "taken") The first recorded Took (Tûk of unknown meaning in Hobbitish Westron) was an Isumbras Took, who became the 13th Thain of the Shire after Gordenhad Oldbuck crossed into Buckland, becoming Master ...Took clan.

Gordenhad renamed himself Brandybuck, and began delving the great smials of Brandy Hall. Around the hill was built the village of Bucklebury.

The Brandybucks formed a powerful dynasty which became mostly independent of the Shire, although Buckland remained nominally a part of it. They were seen as 'odd folk' by the other Hobbits of the Shire because they locked their doors at night (because of the exposure to the Old ForestIn J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional universe of Middle-earth, the Old Forest is a small forested area which lies east of the Shire in Buckland. The Old Forest is one of the few survivors of the primordial forests which covered most of Eriador before the Second Age, and it once was but the northern edge of one immense forest which reached all the way to Fangorn forest. It is bordered ...Old Forest).