Rosie Cotton

Character
Name:	Rose "Rosie" Cotton
Occupation:	Barmaid (films only)
Relationships:	Samwise Gamgee (husband) Elanor, Frodo, Rose, Merry, Pippin, Goldilocks, Hamfast, Daisy, Primrose, Bilbo, Ruby, Robin and Tom Gamgee (children) Tolman Cotton and Lily Brown (parents) Tom, Jolly, Nick and Nibs Cotton (brothers)
Fandom:	The Lord of the Rings
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Rosie Cotton is a hobbit of the Shire in The Lord of the Rings. She marries Samwise Gamgee. In Peter Jackson's film trilogy, she is the barmaid of the Green Dragon inn.

Fan Response

Shipping

Sam/Rosie is the most popular ship for Rosie. Frodo/Sam/Rosie is a popular threesome. She is also sometimes paired with Frodo Baggins or with Marigold Gamgee (Sam's younger sister) in a rare hobbit femslash pairing.

Example Fanworks

Fanfiction

• Pretty Good Year by Mary Borsellino (2002), a popular Frodo/Sam/Rosie story

Meta and Academic Commentary

• Expecting you since the Spring: examining Rosie Cotton by Mary Borsellino (2002, revised 2004)
• Reimagining Rose: Portrayals of Tolkien's Rosie Cotton in Twenty-First Century Fan Fiction by Amy H. Sturgis, published in Mythlore, vol. 24, no. 3 (2006)

Fansites and Communities

• rosiecotton at Yahoo! Groups (founded 2002)
• Nowhere Elaborated (c. 2002–2006), a Rosie fansite
• Sweet Maiden (2003–2005), a Rosie fanlisting

Links and Resources

• Rose Cotton character tag at Archive of Our Own
• Rosie C. character filter at FanFiction.Net
• Rosie Cotton at Wikipedia
• Rose Cotton at Tolkien Gateway