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The relationship of
Druda Burrows to the rest of her family is unclear, but based on her dates she seems to have belonged to the generation before
Rufus Burrows. She cannot have been
Rufus' direct ancestor, but she may potentially have been his aunt.
One of the more important of the Hobbit families of the Shire, of whom several members were present at Bilbo's famous Birthday Party. Very little is known about the family in general, apart from the fact that the correct plural of the name is 'Burrowses'. There was however a family connection between the Burrowses and the Bagginses: Bilbo's distant cousin Peony Baggins was married to Milo Burrows, and together they had four children.
Decades before his Birthday Party, at the end of his adventures in The Hobbit, Bilbo returned home to find that he had been officially presumed dead, and that Bag End and its contents were being sold at auction. The company responsible was 'Messrs Grubb, Grubb and Burrowes', a variation in spelling seen nowhere else.2
Notes
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We have no specific dates for Druda Burrows, and the date of birth given here is based on the known dates of her husband, Rollo Boffin. Doubtless the family itself extended back before Druda's time, but she represents the first definite evidence of a Burrows that we have. |
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To be more precise, the spelling 'Burrowes' is seen nowhere else in any canonical source. In fact the initial drafts of The Lord of the Rings did use the spelling 'Burrowes' (specifically, the first version of the list of Hobbit families at Bilbo's Birthday Party included 'Burroweses', where the published book has 'Burrowses'). This seems to imply that Tolkien saw the two spellings as variants of the same family name.
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