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'''Tighfield''' was a village or town located somewhere in the [[Shire]], though its exact location is not known. It is important to history as the home of many of [[Samwise Gamgee|Samwise Gamgee]]'s ancestors. His great-great-grandfather [[Wiseman Gamwich]] came to [[Tighfield]] about two hundred years before the [[War of the Ring]], and Wiseman's son [[Hob Gammidge]] is recorded as a roper, one of a long line of Tighfield rope-makers. Hob's grandson was [[Gaffer Gamgee|Hamfast Gamgee]], Sam's father, who left Tighfield for [[Hobbiton]], to start a new life as a gardener. | '''Tighfield''' was a village or town located somewhere in the [[Shire]], though its exact location is not known. It is important to history as the home of many of [[Samwise Gamgee|Samwise Gamgee]]'s ancestors. His great-great-grandfather [[Wiseman Gamwich]] came to [[Tighfield]] about two hundred years before the [[War of the Ring]], and Wiseman's son [[Hob Gammidge]] is recorded as a roper, one of a long line of Tighfield rope-makers. | ||
Hob's son [[Hobson Gamgee|Hobson]], and in turn his son [[Andwise Roper|Andwise]], were said to have practised their skills in a rope-walk (that is, a rope-maker's yard) for many years. | |||
Hob's grandson was [[Gaffer Gamgee|Hamfast Gamgee]], Sam's father, who left Tighfield for [[Hobbiton]], to start a new life as a gardener. | |||
==Etymology== | |||
Tighfield's name is associated with the tradition of rope-making there and contains an old word for 'rope' (see English "tie", whose spelling was assimilated to verb "tie"). It was the site of a rope-maker's yard, also called "rope-walk" because the ropes were stretched out in long lines over trestles at intervals. | |||
[[Tolkien]] notes the modern place-names tigh, teigh, tye, tey which are unrelated and means ""an enclosed piece of land" and does not occur as the first element in a compound. | |||
Tolkien also noted that the term "rope-walk" in the text has confused several of his translators, to the point of imagining rope bridges.<ref>{{HM|N}}</ref> | |||
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Revision as of 14:45, 14 October 2010
Tighfield was a village or town located somewhere in the Shire, though its exact location is not known. It is important to history as the home of many of Samwise Gamgee's ancestors. His great-great-grandfather Wiseman Gamwich came to Tighfield about two hundred years before the War of the Ring, and Wiseman's son Hob Gammidge is recorded as a roper, one of a long line of Tighfield rope-makers.
Hob's son Hobson, and in turn his son Andwise, were said to have practised their skills in a rope-walk (that is, a rope-maker's yard) for many years.
Hob's grandson was Hamfast Gamgee, Sam's father, who left Tighfield for Hobbiton, to start a new life as a gardener.
Etymology
Tighfield's name is associated with the tradition of rope-making there and contains an old word for 'rope' (see English "tie", whose spelling was assimilated to verb "tie"). It was the site of a rope-maker's yard, also called "rope-walk" because the ropes were stretched out in long lines over trestles at intervals.
Tolkien notes the modern place-names tigh, teigh, tye, tey which are unrelated and means ""an enclosed piece of land" and does not occur as the first element in a compound.
Tolkien also noted that the term "rope-walk" in the text has confused several of his translators, to the point of imagining rope bridges.[1]
