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
Love Is What Stays Love Is What Stays Love Is What Stays is a 2007 studio album by Mark Murphy, arranged by Nan Schwartz and Till Brönner. For Murphy's second Verve album, he is accompanied by such luminaries as Lee Konitz, Don Grusin, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Chuck Loeb and Sebastian Merk. The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album four stars and said that "Love Is What Stays" "is a deeply satisfying and, in places, even astonishing reflection on time and its passage. Memory, reverie, regrets, victories, hipster mysticism, and wonderfully canny theatrically poetic wordplay all come to bear in these songs.