In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...

, the Bolger (anglicization of Bolgra, name of unknown meaning in Hobbitish Westron

Westron

Westron, or the Common Speech, is a fictional language in the fantasy works of J. R. R. Tolkien.Westron is the closest thing to a lingua franca in Middle-earth, at least at the time during which The Lord of the Rings is set. "Westron" is an invented English word, derived from West...

) family are a Hobbit

Hobbit

Hobbits are a fictional diminutive race who inhabit the lands of Middle-earth in J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction.Hobbits first appeared in the novel The Hobbit, in which the main protagonist, Bilbo Baggins, is the titular hobbit...

 family of Fallohidish origin, associated with the village of Budgeford, on the Water in the Eastfarthing of the Shire

Shire (Middle-earth)

The Shire is a region of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, described in The Lord of the Rings and other works. The Shire refers to an area settled exclusively by Hobbits and largely removed from the goings-on in the rest of Middle-earth. It is located in the northwest of the continent, in...

. In common with the Brandybucks and the Took

Took clan

In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, the Took clan was one of the most famous Hobbit families.The first recorded Took was an Isumbras Took, who became the 13th Thain of the Shire after Gorhendad Oldbuck crossed into Buckland, becoming Master there.After Isumbras, the Thain position...

s, the Bolgers had a penchant for heroic names, and so as well as Fredegar Bolger

Fredegar Bolger

Fredegar "Fatty" Bolger is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.-Profile:Fredegar was one of the small group of Hobbits who knew that Frodo had the Ring. 'Fatty' was a descendant of Hildibrand Took , one of the many sons of the Old Took...

 (the most important Bolger in Tolkien's work), we find such noble names as Fastolph, Gundabald and Odovacar.

Bolger of Budgeford

Gundolpho Bolger
= Alfrida of the Yale
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Gundahar Rudolph Gundahad
= Dina Diggle = Cora Goodbody |
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Adalgar Adaldrida Fastolph Fastigar Gundabald
| = Marmadoc = Pansy = Opal = Salvia Brandybuck
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Rudigar Rudibert Ruby : | Theobald
= Belba Baggins = Amethyst = Fosco Baggins : (various = Nina Lightfoot
| Hornblower | : descendants) |
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Herugar Adalbert Drogo : Wilibald
= Jessamine Boffin = Gerda Boffin | : = Prisca Baggins
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Odovacar Filibert Frodo Baggins

Frodo Baggins

Frodo Baggins is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.He is the main protagonist of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. He was a hobbit of the Shire who inherited Sauron's Ring from Bilbo Baggins and undertook the quest to destroy it in the fires of Mount Doom...

  : Wilimar Heribald Nora
= Rosamunda Took = Poppy Chubb-Baggins :
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Fredegar Estella Meriadoc Brandybuck

Meriadoc Brandybuck

Meriadoc Brandybuck, usually referred to as Merry, is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, featured throughout his most famous work, The Lord of the Rings....