Brandybuck Clan 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 become Buckland. The
Bromance targeted non-sexual homosocial behavior and masculinity in inventive ways, David Dobkin's "Wedding Crashers" (2005), "Zoolander", "Funny People" (2009), John Hamburg's "I Love You Man" (2009), Todd Phillips' "The Hangover" (2009), and Gordon's "Horrible Bosses" (2011). Although J. R. R. Tolkien's novels predate what could technically be called the ""bromance era"", the portrayal of the lifelong close relationships between Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee, Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took, and Gimli and Legolas in the novels have been characterized as bromance, as well as the depictions in the films based on them. The theme remains popular, with different genres looking at