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Dates
The earliest known member of the family, Adamanta Chubb, was born in c. III 2790;1 the latest reference to the family is at Bilbo Baggins' Farewell Party in III 3001, at which various unnamed Chubbs were present
Race
Culture
Meaning
Indirectly from chub, the name of a fish2

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Chubb Family

An important Hobbit-family of the Shire

Adamanta
Chubb

Gerontius Took
(The Old Took)
Isengrim
Took III

Hildigard
Took

Isumbras
Took IV

Hildigrim
Took

Isembold
Took

Hildifons
Took

Isembard
Took

Hildibrand
Took

Belladonna
Took

Donnamira
Took

Mirabella
Took

Isengar
Took

Chica
Chubb

Bingo
Baggins

Falco
Chubb-Baggins

Genealogies of the two known members of the Chubb family, Adamanta (who married into the Tooks) and Chica (who married into the Baggins family). The relationship between the two is not known, but Adamanta's youngest child Isengar was born at about the same time as Chica. This probably places Adamanta in the same generation as Chica's unnamed mother (and indeed the two may have been sisters, which would make Adamanta Chica's aunt).

A family of the Shire-hobbits, of whom several were present at Bilbo Baggin's Birthday Party. Their main connection with the Baggins family was through Bilbo's grandfather, the Old Took, whose wife Adamanta Chubb was mother to no fewer than twelve children, including Bilbo's mother Belladonna.


Notes

1

Adamanta Chubb's birthdate is not recorded, but she was the wife of Gerontius the Old Took, who was born in III 2790, and Adamanta was presumably born at about the same time.

2

Tolkien explains the origins of the name Chubb in his notes for translators, associating it with the adjective 'chubby' (meaning 'plump' or 'rounded'). That word is in turn said to derive from the river fish known as the chub, which has a somewhat rounded shape. How the fish originally came by this name is not known.

See also...

Chica Chubb

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