Frodo Baggins Party" relates that Frodo's parents Drogo Baggins and Primula Brandybuck had been killed in a boating accident when Frodo was 12; Frodo subsequently spent the next nine years living with his maternal family, the Brandybucks in Brandy Hall. At the age of 21 he was adopted by his cousin, Bilbo, who brought him to live at Bag End. He and Bilbo shared the same birthday, the 22nd of 'September'. It was Bilbo who introduced the Elvish languages to Frodo, and they often shared long walking trips together. Frodo and Meriadoc Brandybuck are first cousins once removed, since Frodo is first
What Is to Be Done? (novel) The "Dame in mourning" appearing at the end of the novel is Olga S. Chernyshevskaya, the author's wife. Characters with the last name "Kirsanov" also appear in Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons". Dostoyevsky argues with Chernyshevsky's ideas in "Notes from Underground". In particular, he responds negatively to Chernyshevsky's idealization of The Crystal Palace, a theme which is referenced throughout Russian literature. American playwright Tony Kushner referenced the book multiple times in his play "Slavs!". The main character of Gide's "Les caves du Vatican" (En. "Lafcadio's Adventures"), Lafcadio, resembles Rakhmetov. In the book "", author Chris Matthew Sciabarra claims that "What