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The Tolkien family originated in the East Prussian town Kreuzburg (now Slavskoye, Russia) near Königsberg, where the Tolkien name is attested since the 16th century. The verified paternal line of J. R. R. Tolkien starts with Michel Tolkien, born around 1620 in Kreuzburg. Michel's son Christianus Tolkien (1663–1746) was a wealthy miller in ...
J. R. R. Tolkien included multiple family trees in both The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion; they are variously for Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, and Men. The family trees gave Tolkien, a philologist, a way of exploring and developing the etymologies and relationships of the names of his characters. They imply, too, the fascination of his ...
The Tolkien family originated in the East Prussian town of Kreuzburg near Königsberg, which had been founded during the medieval German eastward expansion, where his earliest-known paternal ancestor, Michel Tolkien, was born around 1620. [4] Michel's son Christianus Tolkien (1663–1746) was a wealthy miller in Kreuzburg. [4]
This is a list of pages associated with the works of J. R. R. Tolkien for use in tracking recent changes.It includes redirects for Tolkien information. All links are displayed using the actual page name in alphabetical order and with no descriptive text.
The Atlas of Middle-earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad is an atlas of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional realm of Middle-earth. [1] [2] It was published in 1981, following Tolkien's major works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
They originated in the East Prussian town of Kreuzburg, near Königsberg, where the Tolkien name is attested since the 16th century. Pages in category "Tolkien family" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Tolkien's Middle-earth family trees have multiple functions, including establishing the characters' lineages and the relationships between them, and helping to create an impression of depth. [4] Apart from these, a key function is to show how different ancestries, and hence in Tolkien's view different aspects of character, come together in his ...
Kings of the Noldor in Valinor High Kings of the Noldor in exile in Middle-earth § These figures do not appear in the published Silmarillion. The family tree as presented follows Tolkien's late note The Shibboleth of Fëanor. ¶ In the published Silmarillion, Orodreth is Finarfin's second son (and still Finduilas' father), and Gil-galad is Fingon's son. References Primary ^ Tolkien 1977, ch ...