Esmeralda Took

The mother of Merry Brandybuck

Years of the TreesFirst AgeISecond AgeIIThird AgeIIIFourth AgeIV

Adalgrim
Took

Three unnamed
sisters

Paladin
Took II

Esmeralda
Took

Saradoc
Brandybuck

Meriadoc
Brandybuck

The youngest child of Adalgrim Took, and therefore a great-granddaughter of Gerontius, the Old Took. Born in III 2936 (1336 by the Shire-reckoning), she would have been just five years old when Bilbo Baggins set out on his great adventure into the East. She married Saradoc Brandybuck of the line of the Masters of Buckland, and would presumably have removed to Brandy Hall at that time. With Saradoc and his father Rorimac (the Master at that time) she attended Bilbo's famous Birthday Party in III 3001. Seven years later, her husband became Master in his own right.

Notes

It is perhaps strange that the ending of the name Esmeralda is spelt '-alda', but pronounced '-elda'. This is the conventional pronunciation in British English, and hence would have been the pronunciation familiar to Tolkien. Elsewhere in the world, the name is often pronounced in a way that follows the spelling more naturally, as 'esmera'lda' with an a sound rather than 'esmer'elda' with an e.

Esmeralda Took

The mother of Merry Brandybuck

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