Lalia (Clayhanger) Took was a hobbit of the Shire and the wife of Thain Fortinbras II Took.
Biography[]
Lalia was born in TA 2883 (SR 1283). She married in TA 2914, and her son Ferumbras was born two years later. After Fortinbras' death, Lalia became head of the Took clan, occupying that position until her death. Ferumbras never married, reportedly because nobody wanted Lalia as a mother-in-law. Lalia was so fat she couldn't walk and was confined to a wheelchair: she was widely known as Lalia the Great (or sometimes the Fat). In TA 3002 (SR 1402), her attendant, Pearl Took, accidentally (or possibly on purpose[citation needed]) tipped Lalia out of her wheelchair into her garden, and she died shortly afterward.
Lalia is not on the Took family tree published in The Lord of the Rings, but she is mentioned in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 214.[1]
Translations[]
| Foreign Language | Translated name |
| Finnish | Lalia "Savirinne" Tuk |
| French | Lalia "Suspargile" Touque |
| German | Lalia "Lehmbuckel" Tuk |
| Hebrew | לאליה "קלייהאנגר" טוק |
| Russian | Лалия "Клэйхангер" Тук |
References[]
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings, Appendix C, "Took of Great Smials"