Diollo’s father was a Bounder, and his mother a prominent force in local politics and the office of the mayor, many were heard to say she was a busybody, but only ever behind closed doors, or they would soon come to regret it. Much came to be expected of Diollo and his siblings, of which he was the eldest, and discipline was highly prized in the home.

 

Sadly, Diollo was accident prone, and trouble seemed to find him, despite his best efforts to avoid it. Be it mixing with the wrong hobbits or being in the wrong place at the wrong time, more often than not his father would arrive with other bounders to intervene in a matter or a difficulty, only to find Diollo not far away and heavily implicated.

 

Often, in order to best avoid trouble, Diollo would spend time with the Bounders at firesides and by jail-cells, but even then only seemed to find he got under their feet and became a nuisance.

 

Ever where he should not be, or would prefer not to be, Diollo occasionally even got into fights. The more unsavoury of hobbit youths would even make fun of the fact his father was a Bounder or of his mother and her ways, worse still when they turned their attention to Diollo’s siblings, and how well-behaved they all were, for fear of reprisals from mother or father. The process made him tough, but duly got him into more trouble with his parents.

 

ccordingly, Diollo eventually became the disappointment among his siblings. In some ways, he was willing to accept the stigma in the household to take attention from his younger siblings. Eventually, however, it would become a little too much to bear. As soon as he came of age, Diollo determined to set out into the lands of men and prove himself worthy of his parents respect.

 

In no time at all, he had affiliated himself with local militia and guard in Breeland and his engendered respect and self-discipline made him a great student and a stalwart warrior. No sooner had he committed to his path than he began to evolve into an entirely new creature. The respect of his peers and acceptance of fighters twice his size quickly built his confidence to a point where he no longer felt he needed to impress his parents, and began to realise the greater threat to Eriador and his place in the fight against it.

 

t about this time he encountered the fierce Lynthia Applepeel, and was immediately smitten. He saw in her a similar drive to determine her own fate, and identified immediately with the way she had always found troubles and troubles had always found her, in just the same way. Gladly he resolved to lay down his life to ensure they faced their troubles together, and need never confront a trial alone again. He had found love, and it had found him, and he would never be the same again.