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selflearningbotany · 2 years

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Flower Information Based on The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

1. Peregrine Thistle

Peregrin "Pippin" Took is one of the main four hobbits in The Fellowship alongside Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, and Meriadoc Brandybuck in The Lord of the Rings. Peregrin is a more "masculine" version of Peregrine. Peregrin Took is the son of Eglantine Took and Thane Paladin Took II of The Shire. He has three older sisters named Pearl, Pimpernel, and Pervinca. He is first cousins with Meriadoc Brandybuck, second cousins with Frodo Baggins, and first cousins twice removed/second cousins once removed with Bilbo Baggins depending on the side of the family. Peregrin joins the journey at just 28 years old, the equivalent of 15 in hobbit years, and is the youngest of The Fellowship. He is best friends with Meriadoc Brandybuck and later befriends the ent Treebeard and the men Boromir and Faramir. In the books, he marries Diamond of Long Cleeve and has a son named Faramir Took.

Peregrine Thistle, aka Cirsium Cymosum, is a type of thistle commonly found in western North America. They have spikey spines and a cobweb-like texture. They are a relative of daisies and prefer direct and full sun for at least 6-8 hours a day. They can grow up to 3 feet (91.44 cm) tall and come in white, purple, and pink. They represent aggressiveness, pain, protection, and pride.

2. Eglantine

Eglantine Took, born Eglantine Banks, is the wife of Paladin Took II and the mother of Pearl, Pimpernel, Pervinca, and Peregrin Took. She does not make a movie appearance.

Eglantines are wild roses. They are large, light pink, and grow on thorny canes. Their petals are shaped like hearts. They tend to grow in Europe and Eastern Asia. They smell very strongly of apples and are often used for tea. They grow up to 15 inches (38.1 cm) tall. They represent pleasure and pain.

3. Scarlet Pimpernel

Pimpernel Took is the older sister of Pervinca and Peregrin Took and the younger sister to Pearl Took. She attends Bilbo's birthday party.

Scarlet Pimpernel, also known as red chickweed, shepherd's clock, and poor man's barometer; is a small red or orange flower with purple centers. Rarely, they also come in blue and pink. They have five petals and are considered weeds. Pimpernels that grow in the summer spread by creeping across the ground, and ones that grow in the winter have upright stems. They are very poisonous to humans, dogs, and horses. They represent humbleness, modesty, mystery, and evasiveness.

4. Pervinca or Myrtle

Pervinca Took is the older sister of Peregrin Took and the younger sister of Pearl and Pimpernel Took. She makes an appearance at Bilbo's birthday party and is in The Lord of the Rings Online video game.

Myrtle Burrows is a distant relative to Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. She attended Bilbo's birthday party at age 8 and is the great-great-great granddaughter of Balbo Baggins. She does not make a movie appearance.

Myrtle is the name of Bilbo's pony in The Hobbit.

Pervinca flowers, aka myrtle, vinca, and periwinkle, are soft five-petaled flowers that grow as bushes. They come in light pink, dark pink, blue, white, and wine purple. They prefer partial shade. They are a garden favorite. They are invasive flowers that spread with exploding seed pods. They are used to create vincristine which is used in chemotherapy. However, raw flowers are poisonous. They represent nostalgia, sadness, and purity. (I have some dark pink ones! They easily fit on a windowsill though they are a bit tall. The flowers sprout and fully bloom in one to two days and fall off and regrow just as quickly. They only need watering once every one to two weeks and have a very faint scent).

5. Belladonna

Belladonna Baggins, born Belladonna Took, was the wife of Bungo Baggins and the mother of Bilbo Baggins. She was the ninth of twelve children to Thane Gerontius "The Old" Took of The Shire. She was an adventurous soul who was friends with Gandalf before she and Bungo died during Fell Winter. She makes an appearance in The Hobbit Extended Version.

Belladonna, aka Deadly Nightshade, is a very incredibly poisonous flowering herb. It has bell-shaped purple flowers and black berries. It can grow to be 4-5 feet tall (1.5 meters). Its dried leaves and roots are used to create sedatives with occasional side effects. Eating only 2 of the berries can kill a child and 10-20 berries can kill an adult. They can cause heart attacks, skin irritation, blurry vision, fever, inability to urinate or sweat, hallucinations, spasms, and coma. Belladonna flowers represent silence, falsehood, and death.

6. Lobelia

Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, born Lobelia Bracegirdle, is the resented family member of Frodo and Bilbo Baggins. She is the wife of Otho Sackville-Baggins and the mother of Lotho Sackville-Baggins. Lobelia is known for wanting to steal Bag End and has successfully stolen Bilbo's silverware and was so rude to Samwise Gamgee in the books that Frodo Baggins refused to offer her tea.

Lobelias are an annual herb with many varieties. They tend to be red, pink, white, and commonly blue. Lobelias are also known as pukeweed because doctors used to use them to induce vomiting. Their young buds can be cooked and eaten but is ill-advised. Lobelias are easy-to-grow carefree plants that enjoy cool weather and need frequent watering in warmer weather. They are popularly used in hanging baskets. They represent love, prosperity, and good luck.

7. Rose

Rose "Rosie" Gamgee, born Rose Cotton, is a hobbit lass in The Lord of the Rings. She works as a barmaid at The Green Dragon. Samwise Gamgee fancies her, and Frodo Baggins encourages it. She attends Bilbo's birthday party where Frodo insists Sam needs to ask her for a dance. She later marries Samwise and has 13 children named Elanor the Fair, Frodo, Rose, Merry, Pippin, Goldilocks, Hamfast, Daisy, Primrose, Bilbo, Ruby, Robin, and Tolman.

Rose Gamgee is the daughter of Rose and Samwise Gamgee with her mother's namesake. She does not make a movie appearance.

Roses are round multipetaled flowers that grow on spikey thorn bushes. They come in red, pink, yellow, white, purple, and green, with other genetically modified colors such as black, blue, and orange. They prefer loam soil and full sun, but full sun can bleach them and cause the color to fade. Partial shade can reduce fading but will result in smaller buds. Rose petals are edible and are said to be sweet. Soaking the petals in water creates rose water which can improve skin and gut health. Different colored roses represent different things such as red roses meaning romantic love, yellow roses meaning friendship love, and blue roses meaning mysteriousness.

8. Primrose or Primula

Primrose Gamgee is one of the daughters of Sam and Rose Gamgee. She does not make a movie appearance.

Primula Baggins, born Primula Brandybuck, is the wife of Drogo Baggins and the mother of Frodo Baggins. She and Drogo drowned during a boating accident on the Brandywine River when Frodo was young, leaving him to live with his cousins in Brandy Hall for many years until Bilbo Baggins took him in. She does not make a movie appearance.

Primrose, also known as primula, is a popular garden flower. They have course heart-shaped petals and thick stocks. They come in yellow, red, pink, purple, and white. They have yellow centers. They are poisonous with tiny hairs on the stem that can cause blistering. They prefer partial sun and moist, well-drained, acidic soil. They represent spring, protection, safety, and love.

9. Marigold

Marigold Cotton, born Marigold Gamgee, is the youngest child of Hamfast Gamgee and Belle Goodchild and is the sister to Hamson, Halfred, Daisy, May, and Samwise Gamgee. She later marries Tolman Cotton or Rose Cotton's brother. She is at Bilbo's birthday party, and she is also in The Lord of the Rings Online video game.

Marigold flowers are bright orange and yellow flowers that are round and puff to be spheres. They prefer partial to full sun and warm climates. They can easily self-seed and will most likely return annually. All parts of marigolds are edible from stems to roots to petals; they are even edible raw. They are said to taste sweet or sometimes savory. They have a very pungent scent that repels mosquitos, cabbage worms, whiteflies, and wild rabbits. Marigolds represent power, strength, passion, creativity, the brevity of life, and yellow marigolds can sometimes mean grief or jealousy.

10. Daisy

Daisy Gamgee is the daughter of Hamfast Gamgee and sister to Hamson, Halfred, May, Marigold, and Samwise Gamgee. She does not make a movie appearance.

Daisy Gamgee is also the name of Samwise and Rose Gamgee's daughter. She is named after her aunt. She does not make a movie appearance.

Daisies are white flowers with yellow centers. They can grow from 10 inches to a few feet tall with different variations. Their petals can be frilly, fluffy, or ruffled. They have serrated leaves. They prefer full sun and moist yet well-drained. They grow from summer to fall. They are the international symbol of innocence and purity.

11. Goldilocks

Goldilocks Took, born Goldilocks Gamgee, is the third daughter of Samwise and Rose Gamgee. She later marries Peregrin Took's son Faramir Took. She does not make a movie appearance.

Goldilocks, aka Creepy Jenny or Moneywart, are hanging ferns that have vines of shiny heart-shaped leaves. During mid-spring to summer, they sprout yellow flowers. They can grow up 4 inches (10 cm) tall. They like moist yet well-drained soil and full to partial sun (though definitely partical sun if in hot weather). They are generally deer and pest resistant. They are nontoxic and can be used for herbal teas if desidered though it is not common. It was once used to help "cure" whooping cough. It is known as "good medicine for all diseases".

Goldilocks can also mean a group of buttercup flowers. Buttercup flowers are small yellow flowers with yellow puffed centers. They can have anywhere between 0 to 23 petals. They are often fine with full sun or partial sun but are pickier with their soil by preferring it to be light, cool, and well-drained. They have thick layers of yellow pigment, but they catch air under the layers which causes the flowers to become glossy and shiny. They are often considered weeds. Buttercups are extremely poisonous and can cause blistering of the mouth. They represent joy, youth, purity, happiness, and friendship.

Goldilocks Rocks Bidens, aka Bidens or Spanish Needles, is another type of goldilocks. They are yellow and/or orange flowers with dark yellow centers. They prefer full sun for at least 6 hours a day, partial sun for 4-6 hours a day, and up to 4 hours of full shade. They can grow up to 14 inches (35.56 cm) and prefer moist soil. There are no reports of toxicity, but they are not traditionally eaten. They are excellent for pollinators but are considered weeds. It is part of the aster family and means "two teeth".

9. Gold Berry

Goldberry is the lovely wife of Tom Bombadil. She appears in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and is later sung about by Bombadil in The Lord of the Rings with his song "Hey,Dol! Merry Dol!". She was portrayed in the movies, but she was later cut. She is known as the "River-woman's Daughter" and is described as being beautiful, youthful, and blonde.

Gold Berries, also known as goldenberries and cape gooseberries, are flowering plants that produce small orange fruits. Their flowers are yellow with brown in the center. They grow in hot and humid weather such as in Australia, South Africa, India, Malaysia, and The Philippines. They are oftened eaten and attacked by cutworms, red spiders, and potato tuber moths. Their fruits are often used for pies, sauces, puddings, jams, and ice cream.

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thelandswemadeofpaper · 7 months

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The Hobbit (2012) Extended Edition - Young Bilbo Baggins (HD)

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Extended Edition with little tiny Bilbo meeting Gandalf

Why I just learn this existed now?

Belladonna's here too!

#belladonna baggins #bilbo baggins #hobbit #gandalf #shire #tolkien #prequels #jrr tolkien

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starsilversword-art · 2 years

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A little doodle.

#my art #traditional art #the hobbit #belladonna took #belladonna baggins #fanart #the hobbit fanart #doodle

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trashanstuff · 5 months

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even smaller beebo and his cool mom

this is a little snippet from my childhood of me filling my pockets of blueberries to my moms displeasure

#i swear to god i love bella with all’ my heart #shes just such a cool character #i want a spin off just of her adventures #bilbo baggins #belladonna took #the hobbit #the hobbit fanart #beebo with a tail #tolkien #tolkien fanart

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retellingthehobbit · 7 months

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Retelling The Hobbit Chapter 15: Unattached First chapter / Previous / Next Read full comic on: Webtoon/A03

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Thank you for reading! The next chapter of this comic adaptation of The Hobbit will be titled (drumroll)....The Song of the Lonely Mountain!

Check under the cut for notes on the callbacks to previous chapters of this comic, and to Tolkien stories like the Unfinished Tales! —-

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One of my guiding ideas for this comic is that the story is being written/drawn by Bilbo Baggins, an “unreliable narrator,” who has a biased way of recounting events. As the comic goes on, parts of the story get retold through new perspectives (or through the eyes of other characters), and you realize the initial version you read was incomplete.

A lot of you probably noticed that this chapter features a ton of callbacks to the earliest chapters of this comic! We saw child Bilbo and Gandalf's friendship told from Bilbo's POV in Chapter 3.....but in this chapter we see it retold from Gandalf's POV. However, Belladonna Took is our biggest instance of that! Not to overexplain my own writing, but Chapter 1 is an older Bilbo painting an idealized happily-ever-after fairytale picture of Belladonna, while Chapter 15 features a younger Bilbo telling a far less optimistic version of her life. While there's truth to both of them, neither of them is the full truth.

In the Fellowship of the Ring, Bilbo tells Frodo that ‘books need to have good endings,' like endings where everyone "lives happily ever after." If I were to continue this comic to the end of the novel, Bilbo’s habit of “rewriting things to be happier" would become a whole Thing.

Second: Much of this chapter is taken directly from “The Unfinished Tales: The Quest For Erebor.” That story was Tolkien’s attempt to unite the tone of The Hobbit with LOTR, by having Gandalf explain what The Hobbit looked like from *his* perspective. The gay line about Bilbo feeling incapable of settling down into a Traditional Marriage with a Wife And Kids is taken almost directly from the Unfinished Tales. So are all the lines where Gandalf reflects on what Bilbo was like as a child, and the moment where Bilbo reflects that all of his desire for adventure has dwindled to a private dream.

Third: Obviously, the other big influence on this chapter (outside the original novel) was a similar scene in the PJ film. The little bit where Gandalf reveals the lore behind Bullroarer took monologue is the only dialogue I’ve directly lifted from that scene. ;3

Fourth: some of you may have caught that I used a quote describing Frodo’s wanderlust in the Fellowship of the Ring to describe Bilbo. The bit describing "the maps that only show white spaces beyond their borders" is also why I emphasized Bilbo’s canonical nerdiness around maps in earlier chapters (chapter 5 especially, but also in Chapter 6, Chapter 7, and a blink-and-you-miss-it moment in chapter 14.)

Fifth: one of my favorite things in the original book are all the scenes where Gandalf does fun Whimsical things with smoke/smoke rings. In the book he usually makes them change color or race around; in my comic he usually makes them turn into butterflies (he also does this in chapters 3 and 11.) you may have noticed that Butterfly Symbolism is a big thing in this comic. But yeah, in another callback: Gandalf finally had time to blow smoke-rings with Bilbo, which he said he 'had no time for' in Chapter 2!

Thanks again for reading! I tentatively plan for the next chapter to arrive on November 13th.

#the hobbit #lotr #lord of the rings #the hobbit comic #retelling the hobbit #chapter 15 #bilbo baggins #belladonna took #gandalf the grey #YEEEEEEEEEEEET #anyways #thanks again for reading!!!#long post

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glorf1ndel · 7 months

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Who is your party partner on this Hobbit Day? 😄🎉

#lotr #lord of the rings #the hobbit #belladonna took #bilbo baggins #frodo baggins #samwise gamgee #merry brandybuck #pippin took #rosie cotton #lobelia sackville baggins

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planet-solux · 2 months

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I'm having so much Galaxy brain rn. Wasn't bilbo influenced to join the company through a song? Like, thorin played the harp one time and bilbo decided to go on this wondrous adventure? Is that not Fate? Is that not a magic in and of itself?

The whole world of arda is a song. A never ending symphony of music

Isn't the magic of the dwarves the ability to sing to the earth and hear its song in return? Do the elves not sing to the stars and the seas?

So, to me, it makes sense that bilbo baggins an unremarkable little hobbit, son of "The Remarkable Belladonna Took", touched by Fate even from the beginning, was the one who started it all? Was the beginning of the end not the day a baby Bilbo first cried into the air and the world sang back?

I just-

GdagdaafsgxGfHfshfabfsjfahfssfjkgsgkskts

Yknow?

#tolkien #j r r tolkien #the hobbit bilbo #bilbo baggins #belladonna took #the hobbit #lord of the rings #lore??? yeah i guess #idk how to tag this #galaxy brain #lotr #magic music #thorin oakenshield

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legitimatesatanspawn · 6 months

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Double checking the timeline reminded me of some fun facts:

Bilbo, Age 18: Frodo's father (Drogo Baggins) is born.

Bilbo, Age 21: The Fell Winter. Loss of crops, "large white wolves" (could be wargs) invade the Shire.

Bilbo, Age 22: Region just south of Brandywine floods.

Bilbo, Age 26: Bilbo's paternal grandmother (Laura Baggins nee Grubb) dies at 102, his father (Bungo Baggins) becomes head of family at 70.

Bilbo, Age 30: Frodo's mother (Primula Baggins nee Brandybuck) is born.

Bilbo, Age 33: Officially considered an adult by Shire reckoning.

Bilbo, Age 36: Bilbo's father (Bungo Baggins) dies at 80. Presumably old age.

Bilbo, Age 44: Bilbo's mother (Belldonna Baggins nee Took) dies at 82. Presumably old age.

Bilbo, Age 50-52: The Dwarf Company meets at Bag End in Hobbiton (50/51), Quest ends (51), Bilbo gets home (52).

Bilbo, Age 78: Frodo is born and presumably lives in Hobbiton.

Bilbo, Age 90; Frodo, Age 12: Frodo's parents die (boating accident). Respectively 72 and 60.

Frodo is taken in by his maternal uncle's family (Rorimac Brandybuck) and lives in Brandy Hall in Buckland. Because his parents would often take him to visit his mother's family there, presumably just as much as they'd visit their Baggins side relatives in Hobbiton.

Bilbo, Age 99; Frodo, Age 21: Bilbo officially names Frodo his heir and brings him to Bag End. Note, it's implied he's had lots of visits and everything in between so its not just out of nowhere.

Bilbo, Age 111; Frodo, Age 33: Gandalf visits Bilbo regarding the Ring. The Birthday Party. Frodo is officially considered an adult in the Shire.

Bilbo, Age 112: Bilbo moves into Rivendell.

Bilbo, Age 128; Frodo, Age 50: Frodo gets visited by Gandalf regarding the Ring. Frodo leaves the Shire and reaches Rivendell. Fellowship is founded.

Bilbo, Age 129; Frodo, Age 51: Sauron is defeated. Later, Grima kills Saruman.

Bilbo, Age 131; Frodo, Age 53: Bilbo and Frodo sail off to Valinor.

Presumably Bilbo and Frodo live near/in Valinor for the rest of their days. Barring health issues, Frodo should live another 40 years.

So remember when Bilbo was stressing out over the dwarves using his mother's glorybox to scrape his traveling boots off on? Keep in mind a glory box is basically a big fancy chest that young women would/do (not sure if some places still do this) put items and goods in to help prepare the dowry and then transport it to the new home.

The fact that Hobbits apparently do dowries considering how they handle gift-giving is a little confusing to me. Bungo Baggins did make Bag End for his new wife, though, so maybe both sides do an equivalent to a dowry?

But even setting aside the fact that it was a keepsake and something he clearly cherished, dude was probably still grieving his parents and here comes this pack of random ass strangers just scraping stuff on it like it's that metal thing outside of some old houses I've seen around here. I forget the word for them. Those little metal plates screwed near to the front door on the pavement so that people can scrape off mud and in some cases dogshit/horseshit before entering someone's home.

Honestly I like those plates more than the welcome mats which are often either too thin to be of real use or too difficult to clean. The plate solves both issues.

Bilbo was essentially a teenager when everyone survived a horrible winter with food shortages and vicious attacks by wolves who either overhunted or ran out of prey in their original territory. And then he was a young adult when his parents died. Hobbits come of age at 33 and live to about 90-100. 110 is old af to them while the oldest known hobbit (before Bilbo) being at 130 as incredible. Give it up for Gerontius Took, everyone: Bilbo's maternal grampa!

Also considering Lobella Sacksville-Baggins is Bilbo's immediate cousin through his father's siblings, we have a massive reason for why Lobella being a salty ass isn't just a personality trait but more about family drama. Your bachelor cousin head of the family who has apparently zero interest in marrying or having kids of his own happily visits all his relatives and makes grand gifts to people as part of the local custom regarding birthday parties (Hobbits give gifts on their birthday rather than receiving them).

And then Bilbo adopts a distant cousin instead. 1st/2nd degree actually based on family but Bilbo's grandfather's brother's great-grandson doesn't roll off as easily, although Bilbo's maternal aunt's grandson does. Meanwhile Lobella is Bilbo's uncle's daughter-in-law making her son Lotho would've been his immediate successor by inheritance laws. Of course, Lobella is no saint and she was preemptively nasty and grabby with things not even hers but I'm gonna admit, if I cared about that I would definitely feel hurt.

#lord of the rings #tolkien #bilbo baggins #frodo baggins #lobella sacksville-baggins #the hobbit #character ages #timeline #the fell winter #drogo baggins #bungo baggins #belladona baggins #primula brandybuck #belladonna took #primula baggins #hobbit customs #hobbit culture

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