Who Is Sam Gamgee's Daughter? Elanor's Lord Of The Rings Backstory Explained

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Peter Jackson is officially working pinch Stephen Colbert to create a "Lord of nan Rings" movie sequel. Well, benignant of a sequel. The movie, which is titled "The Lord of nan Rings: Shadow of nan Past," will screen immoderate worldly from J.R.R. Tolkien's original "Fellowship of nan Ring" caller that Jackson trim from his large surface adjustment (including, possibly, Tom Bombadil). However, Colbert has explained that nan movie will besides usage a framing instrumentality that is group aft nan events of "The Return of nan King." So, it sounds for illustration we're getting an "after nan truth pinch tons of flashbacks" approach. 

The movie's charismatic synopsis adds:

Meanwhile, Sam's daughter, Elanor, has discovered a long-buried concealed and is wished to uncover why nan War of nan Ring was very astir mislaid earlier it moreover began.

It'll beryllium nosy to spot nan adjacent procreation of Hobbits getting up to mischief. And Tolkien moreover gave america immoderate basal accusation astir Elanor's life successful nan notes and appendices for his "Lord of nan Rings" books. Not a ton, but capable to get an thought of her life.

The astir evident item is that she's Sam's eldest daughter. There's a very rubbing segment astatine nan extremity of nan "Return of nan King" book wherever Frodo helps Sam deliberation up nan name, successful representation of a beautiful flower from Lothlórien. The caller adds:

She became known arsenic "the Fair" because of her beauty; galore said that she looked much for illustration an elf-maid than a hobbit. She had aureate hair, which had been very uncommon successful nan Shire.

The sanction root and hairsbreadth colour are fun, but Elanor ends up being a batch much than a beautiful face.

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Elanor nan Fair was calved connected nan first time of nan Fourth Age of Middle-earth arsenic nan eldest of Sam Gamgee and Rose Cotton's 13 children. In various places, she's referred to arsenic Elanor Gamgee and Elanor Gardner (the family sanction Sam yet founded). Later successful life, she marries a Hobbit fella by nan awesome sanction of Fastred of Greenholm, making her a personnel of nan Fairbairn family.

We don't cognize a ton astir Elanor's story, but J.R.R. Tolkien provided america pinch a fewer cardinal specifications that bespeak she doesn't conscionable unrecorded a quiet, sheltered life successful nan Shire. Specifically, we cognize that Elanor goes pinch her parents to unrecorded for a twelvemonth successful Gondor erstwhile she's 20 years old. After she gets married, Elanor past establishes a family of her own, starting pinch her first son: different well-named halfling dude known arsenic Elfstan Fairbairn.

One of Elanor's astir important moments comes erstwhile she inherits nan Red Book from her father. For those not familiar, nan Red Book was written by Bilbo and Frodo (with immoderate precocious additions by Sam, whom Tolkien himself said was nan existent leader of nan story) and serves arsenic nan in-story relationship of nan history of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of nan Rings." Elanor's family keeps nan book and makes copies, indicating that they are astatine slightest partially responsible for helping to sphere nan representation of nan awesome events passim nan ages. When Elanor gets nan Red Book, she besides becomes nan past personification to spot her begetter earlier he, too, goes to nan Grey Havens and follows Frodo and Bilbo into nan West.

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The main things we cognize astir Elanor are that she visits Gondor, gets married, and helps sphere nan heroic history of her begetter and his friends aft nan events of nan "Lord of nan Rings" books. But there's 1 much chunk of matter that J.R.R. Tolkien near america that outlines different portion of Elanor's life. Per nan "Return of nan King" appendices:

King Elessar [Aragorn] rides northbound [...] He comes to nan Brandywine Bridge, and location greets his friends. He gives nan Star of nan Dúnedain to Master Samwise, and Elanor is made a maid of honour to Queen Arwen.

That introduction is for nan twelvemonth 1436 of nan Shire Reckoning (i.e. nan almanac utilized by nan Hobbits of nan Shire). In different words, this happens 14 years after Frodo leaves Middle-earth successful nan last moments of "The Return of nan King." So, erstwhile nan synopsis for "The Lord of nan Rings: Shadow of nan Past" says that Elanor discovers secrets and each that jazz, there's a bully chance that it's going to overlap pinch nan 14-year-old Hobbit lass's way crossing pinch Aragorn and Arwen. Who knows: Maybe we'll moreover spot Colbert's return connected why she is made 1 of Arwen's maids of honor.

"The Lord of nan Rings: Shadow of nan Past" has yet to person an charismatic merchandise date.