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An old family of the Shire, who farmed the lands around Tuckborough in the Westfarthing. The head of the Took family was the hereditary Thain of the Shire from the time of Isumbras I.
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According to notes reproduced in volume XII of The History of Middle-earth, Tûk was thought by the Tooks themselves to come from an old word tūca, meaning 'daring', though Tolkien calls this 'a wholly unfounded guess' on their part. The name 'Took', of course, also exists as real modern surname, also of uncertain meaning (though some sources suggest a circuitous derivation from Thor kil, 'Thor's kettle'). |
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Thain Gerontius (otherwise known as the Old Took) had a total of twelve children. For clarity, this selective family tree only includes those who played a part in the descent of the Thainship, or whose descendants were important in the history of the Third Age. The omitted children were (in order of age) Hildigard, Isembold, Hildifons, Isembard, Donnamira and Isengar.
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See also...
Adamanta Chubb, Adelard Took, Baggins Family, Bandobras ‘Bullroarer’ Took, Basso Boffin, Belladonna Took, Bilbo Baggins, Bolger Family, Brandybuck Family, Bungo Baggins, Fallohides, Folklands, Fortinbras Took II, Gandalf, Great Place of the Tooks, [See the full list...]Great Smials, Green Hill Country, Hildibrand Took, Hildigard Took, Isembard Took, Isengar Took, Isengrim Took II, Isumbras Took I, Isumbras Took III, Lalia Clayhanger, Linda Baggins, Long Cleeve, Lotho Sackville-Baggins, Mimosa Bunce, North-took Family, Pearl Took, Pimpernel Took, Ponto Baggins, Rosa Baggins, Shire-hobbits, Shire-reckoning, Shire-thain, Sigismond Took, Silmarillion, Smials, Thain of the Shire, Thain’s Book, The Fat, The Golden Perch, The Great, The Shire, The Smials, Tookbank, Tookland, Tuckborough, Tûk Family, Undertowers, Whitwell, Yearbook of Tuckborough, Yellowskin
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