Rollo Boffin

	Otto Boffin		Lavender Grubb
Hugo Boffin	Uffo Boffin	Rollo Boffin		Druda Burrows	Primrose Boffin
			Various unnamed descendants

Rollo Boffin was a Shire-hobbit living some three generations before the end of the Third Age. His father, Otto the Fat, was an important figure in the history of the Boffin family, and the ancestor of all the important Boffins of later years. This heritage, however, was passed on through Rollo's elder brothers Hugo and Uffo, and his younger sister Primrose. Of Rollo himself and his wife Druda Burrows, history records only that they had 'various descendants'.² Rollo did, however, have one notable connection to later generations: his sister Primrose was the mother of Lobelia Bracegirdle, who went on to marry Otho Sackville-Baggins, and Rollo Boffin was therefore one of the uncles of Lobelia Sackville-Baggins.

Rollo belonged to the generation before that of Bilbo Baggins, being an approximate contemporary of Bilbo's mother and father. Through most of Rollo's life, the Old Took held the Thainship of the Shire, and Rollo was old enough to remember the Fell Winter of III 2911 (S.R. 1311), when he would have been fifty-one years old. It is not unlikely that he met a young Bilbo Baggins, or at least knew of him, though Rollo would have been advanced in years - aged more than eighty - when Bilbo set out with the Dwarves on the Quest of Erebor.