![]() ![]() He’ll be the Thain one day and you’ll be the Master of Buckland, after old Rory and your father, of course.” “Your first cousin on your mother’s side. “All of Buckland lost its collective mind when you were born.” Frodo put his arm around Merry and made him sit on his lap. “Does everyone get all silly over babies?” Merry wondered. But Mummy and Daddy promised he could visit when he was old enough, so he looked forward to that, asking them at regular intervals was he old enough to go up to stay for a few days at Bag End? The answer was usually no. When Frodo moved to Hobbiton the prior year, Merry was devastated and wanted to go with him. ![]() Frodo had been his first playmate and had taught him his letters. “Pippin” he became from that day forth.įrodo resumed his chair. “His cheeks are just like little apples!” Pearl exclaimed. ![]() Frodo wondered why it was people reserved such idiotic sounds and syllables for babies and puppies. Frodo had slipped in to pay his respects and was being rewarded with tea and sandwiches for his diaper changing skills by the oldest Took girl, 15 year old Pearl. The other gentlemen, including Bilbo, Thain-in-Residence Ferumbras III, Paladin, and Paladin’s brother in law, Saradoc Brandybuck, were in the drawing rooms, smoking their pipes and drinking brandy. Any one of them were more than capable of changing a diaper, but Frodo had found that lasses were very impressed if a lad knew his way around a baby and it was often worth a kiss on the cheek or a glass of wine or a tea cake if he demonstrated this talent. He saw now why Bilbo was a bachelor.Įglantine’s chambers were crammed with women, including her three daughters. “More times than I like to think.” Frodo liked children just fine – a long as they could be handed back to their parents. With a sigh, Frodo had relieved Estella of the very ripe little Peregrine and was making him presentable. But changing diapers had been and still was, very off putting. When Meriadoc was born, Frodo found himself a not unwilling child minder, for it made him feel like part of a family. ![]() They had been exceptionally kind to him when his parents died, and he had lived with them in their rooms at Brandy Hall. Frodo felt a close bond with Estella and her husband, Saradoc. They were in the relations category and welcome to go where they would, even into the mother’s rooms, where each had been warmly welcomed, and Frodo elected to stay and visit a while longer with Estella. The Great Smials were flooded with guests – relations, near relations, friends, nodding acquaintances and total strangers – all there to congratulate Paladin on the birth of Peregrin, and to partake of the munificence of his table in celebration thereof.įrodo and his guardian, Bilbo Baggins, had come down from Bag End. You’re good at this.”įrodo Baggins had made the fatal mistake of entering the chamber where the baby’s mother, Eglantine Took, very elegant in a lace bed jacket, was receiving lady callers and close friends. “His nappy needs changing, that’s why,” Estella said. The wee mite was nestled in a blanket and Merry thought he looked all squished and wrinkly. After three girls, Paladin Took, next in line to be Thain of the Tooks of the Great Smials, had his own son and heir. Estella Brandybuck was rocking the latest addition to her brother’s family. “Why does he smell bad?” Merry, all of 8, leaned on the arm of the chair in which his mother sat. ![]()
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