During Peter Jackson’s 2001 film adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring, at Bilbo Baggins’s long-awaited 111th birthday party, he gives a speech to the many hobbits in attendance: Bagginses and Boffins, Tooks and Brandybucks, Grubs, Chubs, Hornblowers, Bulgers, Greyskulls, Bracegurdles and Proudfoots (or Proudfeet!) But where did these illustrious families come from, and how did they end up in The Shire?