![]() ![]() Sam then left Middle-earth for the Undying Lands later that year after giving their daughter the Red Book of Westmarch. Rosie died in the year 61 on Mid-year's Day at the age of ninety-eight. When they returned, they lived out their lives seeing Sam's mayoral duties passed to Tolman Cotton Jr. In their later years, Sam and Rosie went to Gondor and lived there for over one year in the house of King Aragorn II Elessar. Among them were Elanor the Fair, Frodo Gardner, and Goldilocks. Many were named after Sam and Rosie's friends and relatives. Sam and Rosie had thirteen children: Elanor, Frodo, Rose, Merry, Pippin, Goldilocks, Hamfast, Daisy, Primrose, Bilbo, Ruby, Robin, Tolman (Tom). Sam and Rosie were finally married on and moved to Bag End. After the war, Sam and Frodo lived with Rosie and the Cottons for a time until Bag End was restored to liveable conditions. During this time, Sam got the chance to tell her where he had really been and what he had really been doing for over a year. She eventually helped him and the other returning hobbits fight and defeat the Ruffians and Sharkey. When Sam came back on November 2, 3019, she told him that she had expected him by the spring and thought him dead. Rosie and her family were just as angry as most everyone else but remained docile due to having a family to look after. ![]() Though not pleased that he was away for a year, she waited for him patiently. Being very close friends with Sam, she expected that she and him would eventually marry, and expecting a marriage proposal soon she didn't like it when she heard Sam had left the Shire, apparently for Crickhollow. Her early life is not well recorded but it is known that she and her family were always close to the Gamgees, and her brothers frequently swam in the Bywater Pool as youths with the Gamgees including Sam. She lived with her family on South Lane, in a farm near Bywater. Rosie was a Cotton the daughter of Tolman Cotton and Lily Brown, and the sister of Tolman (Tom), Wilcome Cotton (Jolly), Bowman (Nick), and Carl Cotton (Nibs), and wife of Samwise Gamgee. She became the mother of Frodo Gardner, Elanor, Rose, Merry, Pippin, Goldilocks, Hamfast, Daisy, Primrose, Bilbo, Ruby, Robin, and Tolman (Tom). She wedded Samwise Gamgee, renowned companion of Frodo Baggins in the quest of the One Ring. Rose Cotton, nicknamed Rosie, was a hobbit of the Shire. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |