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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.
Other German relatives joined the two brothers in London. Several people with the surname Tolkien or similar spelling, some of them members of the same family as J. R. R. Tolkien, live in northern Germany, but most of them are descendants of people who were evacuated from East Prussia in 1945, at the end of World War II. [5] [4] [6]
Dimitra Fimi notes that under the root GAT(H)-, Tolkien mentions the place-name "Garthurian", meaning 'a fenced realm' such as Doriath, or the secret Elvish city of Gondolin. She comments that this seems to imply that at the time of writing The Etymologies, Tolkien still imagined the tale of Lúthien and Beren "as Celtic/Arthurian".
Tolkien derived the name Gandalf from Gandálfr, a dwarf in the Völuspá's Dvergatal, a list of dwarf-names. [1] In Old Norse, the name means staff-elf.This is reflected in his name Tharkûn, which is "said to mean 'Staff-man'" in Khuzdul, the language Tolkien invented for his Dwarves.
But Tolkien uses the same process to make his own inventions: ents who are as ancient as their immemorial forest, and who boom and mutter about history and tales and the growth of words like a certain prominent philologist; the regal, civilized men of Gondor with their complex system of law, seven-volumed history, and seven-tiered city; the ...
Tolkien went on to create his first novel "The Hobbit" published in 1937. Almost twenty years later, the sequel "The Lord of the Rings" followed in three volumes, in 1954 and 1955.
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) was a famous British author and philologist, best known for The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien is the surname of: Edith Tolkien (1889–1971), J. R. R. Tolkien's wife; John Tolkien (1917–2003), priest, J. R. R. Tolkien's eldest son; Christopher Tolkien (1924–2020), J. R. R. Tolkien's third and youngest son
Glorfindel: Noldorin elf-lord notable for his death and resurrection within Tolkien's legendarium. Gimli: Dwarven member of the Fellowship of the Ring and a major character in The Lord of the Rings. Goldberry: Mysterious entity known as the River-woman's daughter, wife of Tom Bombadil. Gollum: Possessor of the One Ring until taken by Bilbo Baggins.