Brandybuck Clan river's golden-brown colour. Brandybuck Clan In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, the Brandybuck clan was a powerful Hobbit family. Like the other main aristocratic families, the Tooks and the Bolgers, they had a Fallohide strain, though they and the Bucklanders among whom they lived were at least partly of Stoor origin, and "by all accounts" had Bree blood as well. The family began as the Oldbuck clan, who named themselves such apparently after "Bucca of the Marish", the first Thain of the Shire. Eleven Oldbuck Thains followed, until "Gorhendad Oldbuck" crossed the Brandywine river into what would
Alessio Cavatore a designer for Games Workshop's tabletop hobby wargames. "Mordheim" (1999) was designed by Alessio Cavatore, Tuomas Pirinen and Rick Priestley. "Kings of War" (2009) was designed by Cavatore. Alessio Cavatore had a cameo appearance in "" film as Rohirrim at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, alongside Games Workshop designers Alan Perry, Michael Perry and Brian Nelson. They can be seen near the Mumakil Peregrin Took goes searching for Meriadoc Brandybuck among the debris from the battle, and are also on the base of Games Workshop's Mûmak miniature. In 2010, he founded River Horse to publish his own games and