Rose Cotton

Rose Gamgee (née Cotton) is one of the three lead female protagonists and twelve main protagonists of Three Hobbit Ladies.

She was the daughter of Tolman Cotton and Lily Brown, and the sister of Tolman (Tom), Wilcome Cotton (Jolly), Bowman (Nick), and Carl Cotton (Nibs), and wife of Samwise Gamgee.

In the second chapter, she was caught by Gandalf in spying on him and Frodo. So, he forces Rosie and Sam to join Frodo on his quest. Rosie was almost denied membership in the Fellowship of the Ring, but Gandalf defends her, Estella, and Diamond and the girls join them. After the Fellowship's fall, Rosie (along with Sam) were the only known ones to have stayed with Frodo on his quest to destroy the One Ring. Slowly, she finds herself distancing from Frodo and growing closer with Sam.

Rosie is a member of the Cotton family and the Gamgee family. She is also a member of the Fellowship of the Ring.

Personality
Rosie is also the responsible one out of the three hobbit girls. She sometimes acts like a mother or an older sister figure to her two younger friends. In the third tale, "Three's Company", she scolds Merry, Pippin and Diamond for stealing Farmer Maggot's crops but Diamond defends herself immediately that It was Merry and Pippin's idea. She also puts her arm around Diamond when she is frightened of the Nazgul who are attacking the people across the street.

Physical appearance
Rose is considered one of the most beautiful women in all of the Shire. The hobbits even have compared her beauty to that of Elves

Name

 * Rose is a type of flower, and it is tradition to name a hobbit girl either with jewels or with names associated with Flowers. The name Rose is of Latin origin.
 * However, Rose just goes by the nickname "Rosie" by her friends.
 * The surname Cotton comes from a Westron Hlothran, which roughly translates as "Cottager"
 * A real-life English surname, it means "cottage town."