If only Tolkien had tried to connect those ... ancestral crossroads in Hobbit society. It is more than family tree mumbo jumbo, too. Frodo's backstory is a key part of how his story plays out.

While J.R.R. Tolkien's detailed history of his fictional ... The first significant figures in Aragorn's family tree are Elu Thingol and Melian. Thingol was one of the three the Vala Oromë took ...