Ferumbras Took I
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Ferumbras Took I | |
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Hobbit | |
Biographical Information | |
Titles | Thain of the Shire |
Location | The Shire |
Birth | between S.R. 1 and S.R. 1101 |
Death | between S.R. 1 and S.R. 1101 |
Family | |
Family | Took |
Physical Description | |
Gender | Male |
Ferumbras Took I was a Hobbit of the Shire.
History
Ferumbras presumably lived in the first millennium of the Shire-Reckoning during which he became Thain, sometime after Isumbras I.
No record of his name exists, but Ferumbras II, the twelfth Thain, was named after him.[1]
Etymology
Ferumbras is a name from the legends of Roland, a corruption of Frankish fier à bras, "brave arm".
References
- ↑ The existence of this character is deduced from the ordinals in J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix C, "Took of Great Smials"