The family began as the Oldbuck clan, who named themselves such apparently after Bucca of the Marish, the first Thain of the Shire.
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On January 22, 2009, on CNBC's The Call, Charlie Gasparino said that Thain was going to meet Lewis later in the day.
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Thain has been nicknamed "Superman", due to his facial resemblance to the character's alter-ego Clark Kent.
Although she never married, she may have had a romantic attachment to a school friend, Major Thain, who was killed at the Khyber Pass in 1842.
After Isumbras, the Thain position became hereditary in the Took family, and at the end of the Third Age his descendant Peregrin "Pippin" Took became the 19th Thain of the Took line, the 32nd in the Shire.