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	:: ernil pheriannath//info/family-history ::
		he held the office throughout the war of the ring and is credited for defending the great smials from the ruffians who invaded the shire and refusing to let the took family succumb to their abuse.
		tuckborough was the largest town of tookland and there the great smials, a large ancestral (many-tunneled) mansion of the took family, was located.
		the old took himself lived in the great smials, and in his old age he took to staying in one room, which after his death was never touched or lived in again.
	www.somethingtookish.org /pippin/familyhistory.html (1077 words)

	The Safe Havens of Arda - Encyclopedia
		The Great Smials, or the Great Place of the Tooks, were excavated in Tuckborough by Isengrim II, the tenth Thain of the Shire and grandfather of the famous Bandobras "Bullroarer" Took.
		A great family hole akin to the Brandybucks' Brandy Hall, the Great Smials are deep and many-tunnelled.
		The Great Smials may soon be forced to become a fortress; a bastion of war as the Shadow draws across Middle-earth.
	www.safehavens.net /modules.php?name=Encyclopedia&op=content&tid=24 (316 words)

	Dwellings of Middle-earth
		The excavation of the Great Smials was begun by Thain Isengrim II in 2683.
		In Fangorn Forest, Pippin was reminded of a dim and stuffy room in the Great Smials that was once inhabited by Old Gerontius Took, where the furniture was never moved or changed for generations and became increasingly old and shabby.
		The family matriarch Lalia Took, who was confined to a wheelchair because of her great size, died when her chair hit the threshold of the Great Door and tipped her down the stairs into the garden.
	www.tuckborough.net /dwellings.html (3790 words)

	Tuckborough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Tookborough or the Great Smials were the mansion of the Tooks.
		Besides living rooms and kitchens the Great Smials (Tuckborough was a huge dwelling with many rooms, some untouched since Gerontius Took died, where the furniture was standing as it did when he died.
		Some of the most famous of these books is Yellowskin (the Great Writ of Tuckborough) and after the War of the Ring the most importent copy of the Red Book and many copies of manuscripts of legends and histories related to Elendil and his heirs.
	www.annalsofarda.dk /Annals-of-Arda/places-index/places-me/Tuckborough.htm (263 words)

	:: ernil pheriannath//info/family-anecdotes ::
		so she ruled the tooks and the great smials for 22 years, a great and memorable, if not universally beloved, 'matriarch.' she was not at the famous party (sy 1401), but was prevented from attending rather by her great size and immobility than by her age.
		her son, ferumbras, had no wife, being unable (it was alleged) to find anyone willing to occupy apartments in the great smials, under the rule of lalia.
		lalia, in her last and fattest years, had the custom of being wheeled to the great door, to take the air on a fine morning.
	www.somethingtookish.org /pippin/familyanecdotes.html (401 words)

	Smials - Stories of Arda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Great Smials of Tuckborough rang with song, laughter, and general cacophony and were filled with hobbits, most of whom were at least slightly tipsy.
		Smials are the officially registered local groups of The Tolkien Society.
		He had heard its song, clear as the dinner bell at the Smials, from across the It rose to the tree tops where the wind carried it toward Great Smials.
	linksseek.com /lksk/smials.html (443 words)

	old volkswagen beetle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Great smials that was full of these were some that the calendars of their great smials that meriadoc though the mark.
		Great families, and peregrin became the shire and names in the same time wore on, mr.
		At great smials that did not appear in discovering the.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /volkswagen62/old-volkswagen-beetle.html (553 words)

	Lord of the Rings: Hobbits of the Shire
		The Great East Road passed through the village, so a causeway was built across the dike at the Road’s entry in the west and exit in the south.
		The Great Smials were the ancestral home of the Tooks, a prominent hobbit family.
		Great East Road: This was the road running from the Grey Havens to Rivendell, passing through the Shire and the Bree-land.
	www.lotrplaza.com /hobbits/shirelife.asp (946 words)

	Tip-toe Through the Toponymy
		The head of the Took family lived at Great Smials, which is used interchangeably with Tuckborough.
		Great Smials is identified as only part of Tuckborough by Tolkien.
		The smials were tunnels built into the hills.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/tolkien/94652/7 (512 words)

	The Grey Havens - Songs & Tales: Isildur - Preface
		Of all the events of those far-off days, the most stirring are those that were recognized even by their participants as so momentous as to signal the end of an age and the beginning of a new.
		The account of the great naval battle at Pelargir is extracted from the journal of Amroth, a lord of the Sindarin Elves.
		Even the great error that doomed him and marred the age that followed was not due to weakness on his part.
	tolkien.cro.net /talesong/isildur/preface.html (2057 words)

	Encyclopedia of Arda: Peregrin ‘Pippin’ Took I
		Son of Paladin Took II of Great Smials, and later Thain Peregrin I; he travelled with the Company of the Ring.
		He was only twenty-eight years old when he set out with Frodo and Sam from Bag End on the first part of their great journey, which was considered very young for a Hobbit.
		The works he collected were mainly concerned with the history of Númenor and the Exiles after its Downfall, and so were of little interest to the Hobbits of the Shire, but were of great significance to the larger world.
	www.glyphweb.com /arda/p/peregrintook.html (348 words)

	Characters
		Merry was present at the destruction of Isengard, and rode to the Battle of the Pelennor with the Rohirrim.
		Elrond played a great part in the histories of the Second and Third Ages; he marched with Gil-galad and Elendil to the War of the Last Alliance, and was a leading member of the White Council.
		At the time of the great victories of that year, Éomer was still just twenty-eight years old.
	www.geocities.com /lotr_en/characters.htm (4560 words)

	DOLORES GENDE: LORD OF THE RINGS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Son of Paladin Took II of Great Smials, and later Thain Peregrin I; he travelled with the Fellowship of the Ring.
		Of these, the most significant is that Elves are 'immortal', at least while the World lasts; they do not suffer ageing1 or disease, and if they are slain or wither with grief, they are reincarnated in the Halls of Mandos in Valinor.
		The great soldier-Orcs that first appeared in the late Third Age; they were larger and stronger than their forebears, and could withstand the light of the Sun.
	sciphys.homestead.com /shire.html (1555 words)

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		The Great Smials would not seem to be the ideal place for rest, being crowded as they were with children of all ages.
		As he approached the gate of the weathered wooden fence that enclosed the Great Smials, however, he slowed down considerably again—this time to avoid the many children that would doubtless be darting back and forth inside, intent on their play.
		At last the three reunited in the Shire, and that night they went to the local pub, where each boasted of his or her exploits and trying to claim that the land he or she had visited were best.
	www.libraryofmoria.com /gandalfgerontius/midsummerseveintookborough.txt (5460 words)

	West of the Moon - Took Madness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		But in Tookland, in the Great Smials, something strange was happening: some of the children had become restless at last and, led by a young but boisterous Peregrin Took, they had snuck outside and up a hill.
		They could just make out the lights from the Great Smials which, under normal circumstances, would have been blazing out brightly into the early evening and casting their forms with a soft yellow hue.
		Several fields would have to be replanted throughout the Shire, some of the oldest and poorest smials had been flooded and ruined, many trees had lost countless branches and many more were uprooted entirely, and the rivers were overflowing past many roads and bridges so that none could pass.
	www.west-of-the-moon.net /servlet/ReadGenStory?storyID=461 (6148 words)

	net detective serial
		By the ring, secured by a drawer at great events that he took with his return to the account of these collections were made, especially of the history it secret from the descendants of the war.
		He took with him to his friends but he kept in the end on his account of the largest of his home at great smials,.
		He was in a fine chain, remained in a fifth containing commentaries, genealogies, and no one else in the first century of.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /deruitjuh/net-detective-serial.html (453 words)

	m u s i ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He died in 1380 at the age of 102, but she long outlived him, coming to an unfortunate end in 1402 at the age of 119.
		So she ruled the Tooks and the Great Smials for 22 years, a great and memorable, if not universally beloved, 'matriarch'.
		She was not at the famous Party (SY 1401), but was prevented from attending rather by her great size and immobility than by her age.
	www.lightindarkplaces.net /dana/extra/laliathegreat-excerpt.htm (239 words)

	Frodo
		An old family of the Shire, originally from the village of Gamwich; Samwise Gamgee of the Company of the Ring belong to this family, though his branch was renamed Gardner in honour of his replanting of the Shire.
		While his brother Bombur gained notoriety because of his great weight, Bofur has but one line in The Hobbit, and is about the least mentioned dwarf.
		Nori and his brothers were members of the party that slew the Great Goblin of the Misty Mountains and reclaimed Erebor from the dragon Smaug in T.A. Nori survived the adventure, and became enormously rich under the mountain.
	members.tripod.com /tnrebma/Hobbits.htm (4903 words)

	Truth: 2. Yuletide at the Great Smials - Stories - Henneth Annûn
		The Gamgees arrived early at the Great Smials on Last Day, well wrapped up against the chill of the cold air that had descended upon the Shire in the wake of the rains.
		In the great halls, however, the hobbits were more likely to make tea a hearty meal, followed by a light snack ("eventides") at sunset, whereupon the children would be put to bed, and then late supper for adults and tweens halfway between sunset and bedtime.
		She had been looking forward to the Yule celebration at the Great Smials, the feasting and dancing, the roasting of mushrooms and bacon on long sticks over the Yule log in the wee hours, the quiet conversation with the other tweens and young unmarried hobbits...
	www.henneth-annun.net /stories/chapter_view.cfm?STID=2367&SPOrdinal=2 (1635 words)

	Fern's Humongous Bighead Site -- The Girl Who Aimed Straight, Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		And he knew that sometimes, you felt like just being the same person you always were, instead of being "the orphan child." He told her she was lucky to be in one of the great halls, where there were any number of cousins and in-laws living.
		But Frodo did not come to the Smials for a long time, and by the time Lily and Pippin came back to visit Bag End again, no one was talking about Bilbo's presents anymore, having moved on to the subject Mayor Will Whitfoot's speech at the Midwinter bonfire.
		As it happened, even in the great houses of the Shire, little was written down, save for the actual names and dates of the families, and Lily realized within a week that ten years was going to be an awfully short time to collect all the stories that went along with them.
	www.humongousbighead.homestead.com /girl1.html (5159 words)

	A Father's Love
		Great news in the Shire finds itself most heavily beaten around among the wooden tables and earthenware mugs of the inns.
		The news that the King was coming was of course greeted with great excitement; discussion of his clothes, his eating habits, and his height ("He's eight feet tall if he's an inch...the Thain said as much.") raged on throughout the evening.
		He was a man of great discernment, and had seen his son's discontent growing as the years had passed.
	greggsgambles.com /greggsnotebook/writing/beren.html (7726 words)

	Fanatics Plaza: Gondor Kingdom
		The Balchoth caused great terror in the southern vales of Anduin, for their deeds were directed by the dark Lord Sauron.
		The savagery of the balchoth was legendary and theirnumbers were great.
		In that darkest moment aid came to the Men of Gondor: the Rohirrim sent into battle a great force of cavalry that routed the Balchoth and the Orc.
	www.lotrplaza.com /gondor/racesofmen.asp (549 words)

	TolkienWiki: Lalia_Took (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		She was not a popular ruler, and it is said that her son Ferumbras remained unmarried because none would consent to dwell in Great Smials while Lalia reigned.
		Lalia liked to take the air on fine mornings in her declining years, but by this time she had grown so large that she had to be wheeled to the Great Door.
		She might have outlived the Old Took, but for an unfortunate incident in 3002 involving a clumsy attendant who, one morning, lost control of Lalia's chair and tipped her over the threshold and down a flight of steps into the garden.
	www.thetolkienwiki.org /wiki.cgi?Lalia_Took (236 words)

	[No title]
		By mid-afternoon, the road took its last turn and carried them straight to the stables at Great Smials, a row of three interconnected banks whose innards housed the immense system of halls and rooms that had been occupied by Tooks (and their various and sundry relations and acquaintances) for the last 350 years.
		Turning the ponies over to a stable lad and hoisting their packs upon their shoulders, they stepped onto a broad clipped lawn where no less than a dozen tweeners were learning the complicated steps of The Plowman's Quandary, lit by the rays of the afternoon sun.
		The last great weight was now lifted from the hearts of both young hobbits, leaving them almost dizzy with relief.
	www.libraryofmoria.com /talesfromme/ataleofthetookland.txt (2729 words)

	Took
		After Isumbras, the Thain position became hereditary in the Took family, and at the end of the Third Age his descendant Peregrin "Pippin" Took became the 19th Thain of the Took line, the 32nd in the Shire.
		The Tooks lived in the Great Smials of Tuckborough, ruling Tookland in the Westfarthing of the Shire.
		A smaller clan called the North-Tooks lived far up in the Northfarthing; these were descendants of the legendary hero Bullroarer Took.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/to/took.html (556 words)

	Ringbearer.Org :: J.R.R. Tolkien Fan Community
		He built a great library at Great Smials.
		The Tale of Years was likely prepared at Great Smials, with the help of Merry.
		Pippin wed Diamond of Long Cleeve, and their son was named Faramir Took I. In 1484, Pippin (along with Merry) went to Gondor, and spent his remaining years there.
	www.ringbearer.org /modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=45&page=1&POSTNUKESID=1e23fde8ab4a7b5a42bcb0469e602553 (319 words)

	Foro El Señor de los Anillos, J.R.R. Tolkien - Elfenomeno.com
		Lalia was a great and memorable though not universally beloved matriarch.
		One day in the spring of 3002, Lalia was pushed by her attendant to take air at the Great Door of the Great Smials.
		It was rumored that one spring morning in 3002, it was Pearl's duty to wheel Lalia Took - the immensely fat and not well-loved matriarch of the Took family - to the door of the Great Smials for a breath of fresh air.
	www.elfenomeno.com /foro/idforo/2/acc/2/m/46480/c/999999999999999999 (695 words)

	peregrin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Peregrin Took was born in 2990 of the Third Age, the son of Paladin Took II (of Great Smials) and Eglantine Banks.
		He remained in close contact with Gondor, and built a great library at Great Smials.
		The Tale of Years was likely prepared at Great Smials, with the help of Merry Brandybuck.
	www.sunset.coos-bay.k12.or.us /StudentWebs/lotr/peregrin.htm (294 words)

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