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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 ...
Melian the Maia: Thingol of the Teleri House of Bëor: House of Haleth: House of Hador: Finwë of the Noldor Indis of the Vanyar Olwë of the Teleri Barahir: Belegund: Hareth: Galdor ...
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 ...
The Tolkien translator and author Stéphanie Loubechine describes the opposing roles of the beneficial birch and the malign willow in Tolkien's tree symbolism, on the view that plants are not simply a green backdrop but consistently carry meaning. [10] Curry comments that Tolkien's trees are never just symbols, also being individuals in the ...
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]
Template:TúrinTuor family tree deals with the family trees of Túrin and Tuor and their closest relatives (Húrin, Morwen, Nienor, Lalaith, Huor, Rían). References [ edit ]
Navigable diagram of Tolkien's legendarium. The Peoples of Middle-earth, the last volume of analysis of the legendarium, contains materials written late in his life.. Each volume of The History of Middle-earth bears on the title page spread an inscription by Christopher Tolkien in Fëanorian letters (in Tengwar, an alphabet J. R. R. Tolkien devised for the High-Elves), that describes the ...