A member of the Bolger family of Budgeford, who married into the line of the Masters of Buckland when she wedded Marmadoc Brandybuck. Aldadrida and Marmadoc had four children: Gorbadoc (who later became Master of Buckland himself), two unnamed daughters, and a younger son named Orgulas.
The The Lord of the Rings tells us nothing of Adaldrida's own descent, but the family trees in volume XII of The History of Middle-earth show that she was the daughter of one Gundahar Bolger, who was also a distant ancestor of Fredegar, or 'Fatty', Bolger.
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The -drida ending of Adaldrida's name is obscure. The only real candidate for its source (assuming it had a meaning at all) would seem to be Old English þryð, meaning 'strength'. It is perhaps notable that the same element appears in the name of Adaldrida's grandmother, Alfrida of the Yale, which definitely does contain þryð. So, we might take it that Adaldrida was given a variation of his grandmother's name (though the change in transliteration from frid to drid is curious and unexplained). |
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