Hildifons Took

The sixth son of Gerontius Took. Hildifons is noted for having left on a journey, as is the nature of Tooks, but was never heard from again. It is possible that Hildifons found or founded an unrecorded community of Hobbits,or perhaps stumbled onto even a more remarkable find (like the Entwives?!). Of course, there is the perhaps stronger possibility that disaster befell him and he was killed. And so there has grown in the Shire the cliche, "To go the way of Hildifons." This cliché is applied to anyone who is beginning to act in an unHobbitish manner. Hildifons was Bilbo's uncle and Frodo's great-uncle.