A little help here, please...

[dreamflower]

Coming up very soon, I will be posting my last Chapter of the Week summary for LotR over at rec.arts.books.tolkien and alt.fan.tolkien.

Uh, I may have bitten off more than I can chew. It's Appendix C, the hobbit family trees.

Yeah. Not *exactly* the kind of thing that you can just boil down to a few scintillating sentences. I want to do it justice, and knowing that there are different versions of the family trees in the People of Middle Earth volume of HoME, I put in a request with interlibrary loan. But I don't think it's going to come in in time. Does anyone know of some online sources of that information?

Also, I've bookmarked a few sites on genealogy, with explanations of "cousinship" on them, but I am really looking for any insights anyone can offer here.

So, anyone with brilliant (or not so brilliant) ideas on the subject, step right up...

Comments

[azur-infinie.livejournal.com]

I'll scan the chapter on family trees in HoME and email it to you, if that would help?

[dreamflower]

Yes, thank you!

[azur-infinie.livejournal.com]

I'm on it :)

[dreamflower]

My email addy: aelfwina at cableone dot net

[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

Or do you want the complete one? PoME that is?

[dreamflower]

Well, would that be possible?

[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

it's already off, I am about to turn off my pc for some days... so I was a bit pro-active.. *ahem*

[azur-infinie.livejournal.com]

Erm, so do you still need me to do a copy? :) Mine is also PoME but it's going to take a bit longer yet.

[dreamflower]

Not if they are exactly the same, I suppose that would be overkill, huh?

[azur-infinie.livejournal.com]

Lol, fair enough. My computer crashed when it tried to process the scans, so I'm glad someone else has done it too! :)

[slightlytookish]

I'm not sure how accurate this site is, but I've had it bookmarked for some time:

http://www.mycinnamontoast.com/frodo/

:)

[dreamflower]

Oooh! Thank you! That one looks intriguing!

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

I don`t think I can be of much help, but if you want the names in Norwegian I can always make you a list, lol. :D
/silly

(seriously, if you want that, i`ll make a list:))

I`m a bit mad at JRRT for not naming Merry`s son, but Marigold wrote him once asking about that and she said he had written back saying there was not room enough on the page. Bad writer, lol.

[dreamflower]

Well, really it wasn't *his* fault, it was the publisher for not *making* room, LOL! And Marigold told me he said Merry's son was named "Periadoc".

[gamgeefest.livejournal.com]

"Periadoc." I'll have to update my last fic then, it looks like.

What are those geneaology websites you mentioned?