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  • Updated 13 June 2008
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Bandobras ‘Bullroarer’ Took

Victor of the Battle of Greenfields

Isumbras
Took III
Ferumbras
Took II
BANDOBRAS TOOK
(The Bullroarer)
The North-took family,
and other descendants

The son of Thain Isumbras III1 of the Took line, Bandobras was famous for averting a goblin invasion of the Shire at the Battle of Greenfields, and personally slaying the goblins' leader, Golfimbul.


Notes

1

Many editions of The Lord of the Rings contain a statement in the Prologue that Bandobras was the son of Thain Isengrim II, rather than Isumbras III. This was an error, corrected in the 50th anniversary edition of 2004.

See also...

Battle of Greenfields, Bullroarer, Ferumbras Took II, Fortinbras Took I, Golfimbul, Isumbras Took III, Long Cleeve, North-took Family, Thain of the Shire

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