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(At least one2
Masters of Buckland
Gorhendad Oldbuck Gormadoc Brandybuck Madoc Brandybuck Marmadoc Brandybuck Gorbadoc Brandybuck Rorimac Brandybuck Saradoc Brandybuck Meriadoc Brandybuck The Company of the Ring
Aragorn Boromir Frodo Baggins Gandalf Gimli Legolas Meriadoc Brandybuck Peregrin Took Samwise Gamgee
Son of Saradoc Brandybuck , called 'The Magnificent ', Merry accompanied Frodo on the Quest of Mount Doom . Captured with his friend Peregrin Took by Orcs , they were separated from the rest of the Company of the Ring , but eventually escaped to become the first mortals for many centuries to encounter the Ents of Fangorn Forest . Merry was present at the destruction of Isengard , and rode to the Battle of the Pelennor with the Rohirrim . There, his deeds won great renown, for with Éowyn of Rohan he defeated and slew the Lord of the Nazgûl .
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The name Meriadoc seems to be derived from, or at least influenced by, the figure of Conan Meriadoc, a legendary British leader who was said to have been the founder of Brittany. The possibility of this connection is supported by the fact that Conan's father was named Gerontius (a name apparently borrowed for another important Hobbit by Tolkien). The derivation of Meriadoc is uncertain, but some sources suggest an origin in Old Welsh meriadeg 'sea brow', while others suggest simply 'great one'.
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We're given practically no information about the progeny or descendants of Meriadoc and Estella , but we can be sure that they had at least one son. In Appendix B to The Lord of the Rings , in the entry for Shire Year 1484 , Merry and Pippin '...handed over their goods and offices to their sons'. We know from other sources that the son of Peregrin mentioned here was named Faramir , but there is no comparable reference to Meriadoc's heir.
See also...
Adamanta Chubb , Ants , Aragorn Elessar , Battle of Bywater , Battle of the Pelennor Fields , Berilac Brandybuck , Black Breath , Brandybuck Family , Bregalad , Broadbelt , Bucklebury Ferry , Bumpkin , Captain of Sauron , Captain of the Dúnedain of Arnor , Chieftain of the Ringwraiths , [See the full list...] Chronology of the Westlands , Clover , Companions of the Ring , Company of the Ring , Council of Elrond , Counsellor of the North-kingdom , Crickhollow , Deepdelver , Dodinas Brandybuck , East Wall of Rohan , Elfwine , Elven-cloaks , Ent-draughts , Ent-strides , Éothain , Estella Bolger , Everard Took , Fangorn Forest , Ferdibrand Took , Folco Boffin , Fourth Age , Free Land , Frodo Baggins , Goldworthy Family , Gollum , Goold Family , Gormadoc ‘Deepdelver’ Brandybuck , Grishnákh , Gundahar Bolger , Harding , Headstrong Family , Healers , ‘Herblore of the Shire’ , Herugar Bolger , High Nazgûl , Hildigrim Took , Hill of the Eye , Hob Hayward , Hobbit-names , Holbytlan , Holdwine , Horn of the Mark , Horn-call of Buckland , Horse-country , Horses , Ilberic Brandybuck , Jessamine Boffin , Kalimac Brandagamba , King of the Nine Riders , King’s Company , Lady of the Shield-arm , Legolas Greenleaf , Longbottom Leaf , Lord of the Nazgûl , Lugdush , Malva Headstrong , Marmadas Brandybuck , Marmadoc Brandybuck ‘the Masterful’ , Master , Master Bag , Master of Buckland , Masterful , Mauhúr , Melilot Brandybuck , Menegilda Goold , Mentha Brandybuck , Merimac Brandybuck , Merimas Brandybuck , Mering Stream , Merry Gamgee , Mimosa Bunce , Morgul-king , Morgul-lord , Nazgûl Lord , Northerners , Old Rory Brandybuck , ‘Old Words and Names in the Shire’ , Orcs of the Misty Mountains , Orcs of the White Hand , Peregrin ‘Pippin’ Took I , Ponies , Ponto Baggins , Rath Dínen , ‘Reckoning of Years’ , Riders of the King’s House , River Anduin , Rorimac ‘Goldfather’ Brandybuck , Rosa Baggins , Sadoc Brandybuck , Saradoc ‘Scattergold’ Brandybuck , Saruman , Scatha , Scattergold , Serpents , Sharp-ears , Sigismond Took , Stybba , Swish-tail , Thain of the Shire , The Bold , The Magnificent , The Questioner , The Three Hunters , Travellers , Treebeard’s Hill , Uglúk , Uruk-hai , Wellinghall , White Horse , White-socks , Wilibald Bolger , Windfola , Winged Terrors , Wingfoot , Wise-nose , Wraith-king , Wraith-lord
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