Tolkien Gateway  Sandyman Family  Revision as of 15:19, 18 June
2007 by Fleela (Talk | contribs)  The Sandyman Family was a
family of Hobbits that operated the Old Mill on The Water at
Hobbiton for at least two generations.  The origins of the name
are uncertain, but the family's association with milling
suggests a connection with the 'sanding' of flourdust they would
have received in their work.  Neither of the recorded Sandymans
were well-liked in Hobbiton, but the younger, Ted Sandyman, went
so far as to fall in with Lotho Sackville-Baggins during the War
of the Ring. He sold the Mill to Lotho (known at that time
simply as "The Boss"), who knocked it down and replaced it with
an ugly brick building.