Tulia Puddifoot.

You can probably guess by the title on what I am going to talk about. Yes that's right! A character of mine, Tulia Puddifoot.

Tulia Puddifoot is my main roleplay character for Lord of the Rings, and has the most developed storyline out of all my Lord of the Rings original characters. So I guess that's why I use her the most and why she is my favourite.

I thought I might explain Tulia's storyline in Lord of the Rings and how I have extremely hard to keep it to the original trilogy - given all the possibilities, there were. Also, I romantically pair Tulia and Frodo together... Please don't be mad at me Tolkein! Let me explain. I have made Tulia's small storyline run along side Frodo's Storyline, the best I can. I am sorry Tolkein! Anyway her storyline is planned very delicately and I have taken an enmourous amount of care with it. In my opinion it works! Tulia's story line is basically between when Frodo is 33-50. Tolkein left a gap, in between those years. Which is great because it allows me to weave my way in, and add my own addition to the story, with out changing it in anyway possible :)

Tulia's Storyline:

(Jess, I apologise, as you have read a little of this before.)

Tulia Puddifoot, was born in 2977 S.A, and grew up and lived on a farm with her mother, father and older sister by eight years, in Stock, Eastfarthing, until the age of 5 1/2. At the age of 5 1/2, her mother took her away from the farm and a safer place (Hobbiton). This was because her father had been loosing money on the farm - roughly since Tulia was two - and had eventually lost it all to gambling, in a last desperate need for money, when Tulia was four. He resulted into drinking and became an alcoholic, her father would drink daily and was rarely seen without some ale. He was always down the pubs drinking and became very untrustworthy; he cheated on his wife a lot, with young hobbit lasses from around the Shire. 

One day when he came home from the pub, drunk, he started abusing his children. Tulia's mother tried to save her 5 year old daughter and her 13 year old teenage hobbit lass, but that ended up with her getting beaten up herself. After weeks of screams terror and this unbearable behaviour, from her husband. She took Tulia in the dead of night and took the child, to her husband's brother's house (Tulia's uncle and her mother's brother-in-law), in Hobbiton to get the child away from the domestic violence, she was recieving back at the farm.

Her Auntie and Uncle took her in, in a heart beat. Her Auntie, never being able to have children of her own, was overjoyed by the thought of raising one as her own. That's exactly what she did, she raised Tulia as if she was her own daughter. Tulia was extremely happy here and would often play with Russet Silverfold (1 and a half years older than Tulia, he was the son of her Uncle's next door neighbour - Arlo Silverfold.) Over time she forgot what her mother looked like and her father did. But not her sister, as she loved her deeply and found her the most hard to forget. This resulted in the child calling her Uncle and Aunt 'Mother and Father.' At occasional points - sometimes forgetting they were not her real  birth parents. She looked similar to her Uncle, he might of well of been her father, and she had her Auntie's green/hazel eyes. So in her eyes and eyes of the other hobbits, her auntie and uncle were her real parents.

She stayed with the kind couple, until she was 11, which is when Arlo Silverfold dies. So when Russet's father dies, Tulia's Auntie and Uncle take it upon themselves to look after little Russet, until he is old enough to move back into his hobbit hole, nextdoor. However, they once have room in their hobbit hole for one child, the hole being quite small because they are part of the poorer folk in Hobbiton. So, it is with a heavy heart that her fake parents, bid farewell to their adopted daughter. She left in a cart, on the same day Frodo arrived in Hobbiton. Tulia was nine years younger than Frodo, making him 21 when he came to Hobbiton - which is accurate to the book, also making Tulia 12 years old, at the time. The little hobbit lass left to go and stay with her cousins in Willowbottom. But over the years, she tended to bounce in between Pincup, Buckland and Willowbottom a lot, as she was growing up as a teenager. It is only when she is 21, did she return to her Aunt and Uncle's house for the Summer. By this time Russet had moved back into his hole; with him being 22 and able to look after himself.

This is when of course she met Frodo, who by now is 30. She got to know him well over the summer and was sad, when she had to leave for home, in Willowbottom. However, she worked her way around the problem and started to visit Hobbiton, more frequently. Slowly, as she got to know Frodo better, she visited him more often, making excuses to why she was in Hobbiton all the time. They usually consisted of 'I am helping Uncle, with things.' Or 'I miss my Uncle and Auntie dearly, whenever I am home, so I visited them whenever I can.' They get to know each other better and become good friends. It is only when they see each other at the Yule Ball, one cold winter, when Tulia was 26. They actually started to fall in love. But they were in skinny love and didn't admit their feelings for each other, even though they knew that they both fond of each other, greatly.

Before Frodo left the Shire, he kissed Tulia for the first time, and made her promise she would be fine. She said she would be and didn't know why he was worrying, thinking he was just moving back to Crickhollow. After he left, Tulia was devastated but kept going on as usual. She missed him greatly but tried not to let her feelings show. When the Shire was taken over, she was part of the rebel group, with Fatty, trying to get the Shire back from Saruman's control. However, it failed and she ended up in the Stock Holes. Where she ate very little and grew thinner by the day, from being a nice healthy hobbit before. 

By the time, Tulia and the rebels were released from the Stockholes, she was very very thin and pale. She couldn't walk properly and was tired all the time. You could see her bones through he skin, creating a bag of bones impression. But she soon got her act together, in the Battle of Bywater, and helped fight. She was still very weak and couldn't think well enough, her actions and reflexes were not sharp enough. This led to her downfall. She was one of the eleven hobbits that died in the Battle of Bywater. When Frodo discovered this, he was devastated and it was almost like he was ripped in half. He continued on to live in the Shire for another two years, but it wasn't the same, and he soon left for the undying lands. Claiming he could only heal when he found peace in the Undying lands. However he never did quite find peace and could heal because he had his heart broken and was still in mourning, after all those long years.

Tulia's Personality

She is basically like a big child, never quite grown up. She is very fond of the little things in life and is extremely curious. She has a innocent look to her and for the most part is quite innocent to. She laughs a lot and is a dreamer. She daydreams a lot of the time and loves children. She adores them. She is a bookworm and owns quite a big collection of books. She is friendly, a very bubbly character, curious, she can be funny and is a tad annoying at points. She's an oddball. Tulia does tend to breakdown when she experiences new things she doesn't understand or she finds challenging, and she gets into state of worry and frustration. She doesn't tend to give up on challenges easily, once they are set for her. She is quite quiet but can be loud and does worry a lot. 

Relatives - The Main Ones.

Maple Brandybuck - Tulia's Mother

Edwin "Eddy" Puddifoot - Tulia's Father

Linnea Puddifoot (married name Linnea Brown) - Tulia's Older Sister

Cedric Puddiffoot - Tulia's Uncle, who takes her in

Mae Puddifoot (maiden name Boffin) - Tulia's Aunt, who takes her in.

Tulia's Appearance:

Have a picture of a Frodo and Tulia!

She is a tall 3'2", and had chesnut coloured hair, as a young girl, but as She got older it turned a mousy brown colour - which is the current colour of her hair. It is curly when dry. Except when it is wet, it goes wavy, and stays like that until it dries - which takes a long time.

Her eyes have been changing all my life. They were a brilliant blue when she was first born but soon changed to a sea green colour, before darkening again and going to hazel; which is her current eye colour. She has had hazel eyes most of my life, having her eyes change colour when She was only a toddler.

Her skin tone is a calico,

She freckles going across my nose and around my cheeks, and She has rosy cheeks.