"Every item of news from the shire that Frodo could tell was of the greatest interest to him, from the felling of the last tree to the pranks of the smallest child in Hobbiton."
Gorhendad was the founder of Buckland and the Brandybuck family. When he crossed the Brandywine into what would become Buckland, he changed his name from Oldbuck to Brandybuck.
Encyclopedia entry originally written by atalante_star