Isumbras Took II
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| Isumbras Took II | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Isumbras Took II[note 1] was a Hobbit of the Shire.
History
Isumbras presumably lived in the first millennium of the Shire Reckoning during which he became Thain, sometime after Isembras I.[1]
Etymology
"Isumbras" is of French and Anglo-Saxon origin and means "iron-arm". It comes from the French bras meaning "arm", and the Anglo-Saxon and Middle High German word isen which means "iron".[2]
Tolkien likely[source?] got the name from Sir Isumbras, an English medieval romance about a man who suffers a lifetime of hardship but who finds happiness in his latter years.
Notes
- ↑ The existence of this character can only be deduced based on the ordinals in Appendix C, "Took of Great Smials". There is an Isumbras III, and it is known to us that there was an Isumbras I who was the first thain from the Took Family, but no II is recorded in the incomplete family tree.
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix C, "Took of Great Smials"
- ↑ Jim Allan, An Introduction to Elvish, "Giving of Names"
