Diamond of Long Cleeve

North-tooks?
Diamond of Long Cleeve		Peregrin Took
	Faramir Took

A Hobbit of Long Cleeve¹ in the Northfarthing of the Shire, Diamond entered history in the Shire-year 1427 (the sixth year of the Fourth Age) when she married Peregrin Took, who had been a member of the Fellowship of the Ring and was at that time heir to the Thainship of the Shire. Three years later their son Faramir was born, the only child recorded for Diamond and Peregrin.

Three years later still, in 1434 (or IV 13), Peregrin's father, Thain Paladin II, died. Peregrin thus inherited his father's title to became Thain Peregrin I. Many generations of the Tooks inhabited Great Smials, and so Diamond would probably have been living there from the time of her marriage, but after Peregrin's accession she would certainly have dwelt in that seat of the Thains in the Tookland.

Of Diamond's later life we have no record, but she seems to have died at some point before the Shire-year 1484 (IV 63). At least, we're told that in that year her husband Peregrin left the Shire and removed to Gondor with his friend Meriadoc Brandybuck, passing his title to his son Faramir. The account of these events makes no mention of Diamond, which seems to imply that Peregrin had become a widower by this point.