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1926 Sketch: see ‘The Sketch of the Mythology’.
1930 Quenta: see Quenta.
1937 Quenta Silmarillion: see Quenta Silmarillion.
1977 Silmarillion: see The Silmarillion.
Ace Books (American paperback publisher) xxviii, 765
Ackerman, Forrest J. 17, 60, 222, 827
Ad.Ms.H. (Additional Manuscript Hobbit): designates Hobbit manuscript material still in the possession of the Tolkien family. xxxi, 6, 731ff, & 765ff.
Adventures 29 (Tooks), 30–31 (organized by Bladorthin), 52 (mad adventures), 91 (not all pony rides in May), & passim.
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (ATB) xxxiv, xl (date of poems), 186 (illustrated by Baynes), 596 (Preface). See also ‘The Hoard’, ‘The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon’, ‘The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late’, ‘The Mewlips’, ‘Perry-the-Winkle’, ‘Princess Mee’, ‘The Sea-Bell’, and ‘The Stone Troll’.
Ælfwine of England
—as compiler of Simarillion texts 52, 62
—as dreamer 148
—as Elf-friend 686, 699–700
—as translator 604–5
—in Notion Club Papers 282
see also Eriol the Wanderer, ‘Ælfwine of England’, ‘The Song of Ælfwine’.
‘Ælfwine of England’ (BLT II) 100, 324, 427, 686
Agatha, Queen (wife of Giles) 55. See also Farmer Giles of Ham.
Ái 13, 867–8, 871. See Ori.
Alboin Errol: see Errol, Alboin.
Alboin the Lombard 77, 148, 279, 699–700
Allegory 25 (Tolkien’s distaste for), 79 (lack of allegory in The Hobbit), 423 (applicability).
Allen & Unwin (publisher) passim.
—A&U/JRRT correspondence xxxiii–xxxiv & passim.
—confusion over 1947 revisions 695, 731, 760–2
—original submission of Hobbit to A&U xxvi, 442, 458, 489, & passim.
—first contact between JRRT & A&U xl, 693–4
—follow-up projects to Hobbit xxxix–xl, 268, 694–5
Allibone Baggins (hobbits) 269, 691, 699–700. Original name for Sackville-Baggins.
Alvissmál 103, 168. See also Elder Edda.
Amon Hen (Tolkien journal) 84, 636
Anachronisms & faux-anachronisms 18, 43, 102, 125, 318, 462, 783, 785, 864
Ancalagon the Black (dragon) 20, 527–9, 532, 565
Anderson, Douglas A. xxviii, xxxii, xxxvi, 5, 110, 151, 187, 225, 377, 615, 636, 864, 880, 881, 883 and passim. See also The Annotated Hobbit.
Andrews, Roy Chapman 43
Angband (fortress of Morgoth) 25, 122, 218, 247, 488, 710
Anfauglith 20, 487. See also Dor-na-Fauglith, Withered Heath.
‘Annals of Beleriand’
—Earliest Annals (HME IV) 53, 86, 123, 377, 407, 414, 433, 532, 545, 605, 607, 609
—Later Annals (HME V) 79, 377, 413–14, 431, 532, 607, 721–2, 838
—‘The Grey Annals’ (HME XI) 430, 431, 487, 493, 529, 607
‘Annals of Valinor’
—Earliest Annals (HME IV) 53, 248, 269, 340, 493, 545, 604–5, 607, 609
—Later Annals (HME V) 340, 607
—‘Annals of Aman’ (HME X) 340, 430, 431, 607, 616
Andrew Lang Memorial Lecture: see ‘On Fairy-Stories’.
The Annotated Hobbit xxxii & passim.
Aotrou and Itroun: see ‘The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun’.
Aragorn 15–16, 59, 224, 344, 410, 415, 423, 557, 589, 807, 864
—as guide 810, 819, 830–1, 835
—lifelong friendship with Bilbo 811
—also known as Strider 16, 144, 410, 557, 805, 810, 819, 830–1, 835; and Trotter 16, 144.
Aredhel (elven princess) 59
Ariosto, Ludovico (Orlando Furioso) 179–82, 192, 194, 542
Arkenstone ix, 369, 373, 377, 457–9, 467, 501, 525, 586–7, 591, 601, 603–9, 614–16, 648, 658, 660, 663, 666–9, 673, 680–1, 695, 723, 751, 789–90. See also The Gem of Girion.
—as Silmaril 603–9, 614–17, 695, 723
—discovery of 751, 789–90
Artanor (elvenwood, realm of Tinwelint) 78, 137, 218, 325, 409, 653; earlier name for Doriath.
Artaxerxes (wizard) 50, 697
Arthurian legend xii, 18, 20, 24, 26, 61, 120, 151, 177, 183, 192, 194, 257, 284, 415, 445, 459–60, 490, 492, 494
Artist & Illustrator xxxiv & passim.
Individual pictures within this book are referred to as H-Sx.
Arwen (daughter of Elrond) 59, 62, 120, 415, 563, 703, 803, 811, 864
—sudden introduction 563, 703
ATB: see Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
Attercop 56, 295, 311, 314, 345, 726–7
—origin of name 299, 321
Auden, W. H. xiv, xx, 5, 23, 65, 332, 464–5, 526
Audo in the Lombard 77, 148, 282
Audo in Errol: see Errol, Audoin.
Aulë (Vala) 79, 149, 721–2
Azog (goblin) 141, 218, 712, 779, 787
Babbitt (novel by Sinclair Lewis) xv, xxxvii, 59
Bag-End (Baggins home) passim.
—auctioned off in Bilbo’s absence 690–1
—built by Bilbo’s father 29, 46, 585, 769
Baggins, Belladonna T. (Bilbo’s mother) 29, 31, 46–47, 344, 585, 769, 771
Baggins, Bilbo (the hobbit) passim.
—as burglar xii, 10, 39–40, 74, 91–3, 96, 99, 230, 362–3, 374, 381–6, 441, 475, 496, 506, 509–12, 578–80, 659–64, 667, 681–2, 776–8, 796–7, 864
—as compiler of ‘Lost Tales’/Silmarillion (Translations from the Elvish) 52, 62
—as dragon-slayer xi, 16, 364, 374, 496, 499–501, 519, 555
—as ‘Mad Baggins’ 52
—origin of name 45, 47–8, 60
Baggins, Bungo (Bilbo’s father) xxxvii, 29, 46–47, 584–5, 659–60, 769
—his sayings 46, 505, 516, 578, 584–5
Baggins, Frodo (Bilbo’s second cousin or ‘nephew’ and heir) 47, 143–4, 147–8, 175, 187, 270, 288, 326, 369, 445, 463, 565, 575, 686, 726–7, 747, 791, 810, 835, 838
Baggins Family 29, 46, 768
—Baggins vs. Tooks: see Tookish.
‘Bagme Bloma’ (poem in Gothic by JRRT) 57, 278. See also Songs for the Philologists.
Balan, Sir (Arthurian knight) 24
Balin, Sir (Arthurian knight) 24, 183
*Balin (dwarf, member of Thorin & Company) passim.
—acts as lookout 89, 99–100, 198–9, 306, 319, 352, 384, 645, 796
—among the eldest of the group 32, 54, 135, 380, 390, 477
—becomes Lord of Moria 477, 705, 805, 807, 811
—brother of Dwalin 33, 98, 319, 322, 477, 674, 685, 773
—colour of hood (red or yellow) 32, 41, 198, 210–11
—enters secret passage with Bilbo 363, 368, 372, 495, 504–7
—friend of ravens 472, 618–23, 642–3
—origin of name 23–24, 79, 455, 866, 871
—plays viola 36
—survivor of Smaug’s attack 472, 477–8, 705–6, 720
—survivor of Thrain’s expedition 338–9, 477, 787
—visits Bag-End again 692
Ballads and Songs of Brittany (tr. Tom Taylor): see Villemarque, Hersart de la (Comte)
Balrog 25, 137–8, 149, 218, 221, 415, 529, 542, 614–15, 705, 711, 713, 751
—and Boldogs (Orc-Maia) 138, 149, 218, 711
—Durin’s Bane (the Balrog of Moria) 614–15, 705, 751
—possibility that Dragons derived from 542
Bard the Bowman passim.
—as model for Aragorn 557
—death of ix, 549, 569, 572, 612–13
—first appearance 438, 444, 547, 553, 563
Barfield, Owen (Inkling) 534–7, 544–6, 636
Barsaz Breiz: see Villemarque, Hersart de la (Comte)
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations 6
Bats 134, 140, 142, 154, 163, 340, 484, 530, 568, 580, 582, 602, 716–19, 844
—as Children of Morgoth 530, 675, 716–17
—at Battle of Five Armies 530, 629, 670–2, 714, 716–18
—in Father Christmas Letters 142, 717
—in Mirkwood 304, 317–18
—vampire bats 20, 83, 716–17; see also Thû as vampire bat 20, 83, 716.
The Battle of Anduin Vale xi, 366, 375–6, 378, 501, 572–3, 576, 627, 630, 713, 718
The Battle of Five Armies 378, 666–72, 676–7, 679–80, 713–19
—identifying the ‘five’ armies 223, 376, 713–15, 718
‘The Battle of the Goths and Huns’ (Old Norse poem) 42. See also Heidreks Saga.
The Battle of the Green Fields of Fellin 8–9, 12, 39–40, 43, 712, 776
‘The Battle of Maldon’ (Old English poem) xxii, 535
The Battle of Palisor 78, 82, 85
The Battle of the Somme (WW I) 25, 287, 372, 477, 727
The Battle of Sudden Fire (Silm) 53, 529
The Battle of Toad Hall 59, 256, 281; see Toad Hall.
Baynes, Pauline (artist) 60, 186, 420, 784
—Tolkien’s critique of/essay on 49, 60, 186–7, 434
BBC Radio interview (Denys Gueroult) 15, 79, 86, 494, 526, 543, 575, 720, 758, 827
BBC Radio Oxford compilation (Ann Bonsor) xxxviii, 126, 637, 702
BBC TV programme (‘Tolkien in Oxford’) 12
Bears 150, 168, 231, 240, 253–6, 257, 273, 280, 510, 522, 718
—the great bears of the mountains 231, 247
see also Medwed/Beorn, Cave Bear, North Polar Bear.
—Medwed’s troup of bears at the Battle of Anduin Vale 366, 375, 572; Medwed’s troop of bears at the Battle of Five Armies 629, 713–14
Belegost (dwarven city, home to the Indrafangs or Longbeards) 77–81, 86, 412, 431–3
Beleriand 19–21, 80, 248, 262, 266, 406, 414, 416, 420, 424, 429, 448, 529, 653
—origin of name 19–21, 26
Beorn: see Medwed.
Beowulf 75, 77, 110, 173, 191–2, 249–50, 261, 279, 281–2, 284, 336, 445, 503, 543, 545, 553, 557–9, 564, 600, 605, 704, 707–8, 855–6
—the Bear’s Son story 256, 281–2
—the children of Cain 185, 426, 877
—cup-stealing episode 173, 191, 372–3, 518, 533, 855–6
‘Beowulf Essay’ (‘Beowulf: The Monsters & the Critics’) xxxii, 336, 396, 526–7, 531–4, 536, 543–4
Beowulf’s Dragon 75, 450, 483–4, 531–4, 541, 543, 557, 560, 612 see also Clark Hall Beowulf.
Beren (husband of Lúthien)
—and Silmaril 63, 218, 413, 596, 598–600, 606, 608, 613, 616
—as spider-slayer 327, 330–1, 341
—overthrows Necromancer 20, 73, 83, 123; see also 218, 710.
—union with Lúthien 59, 122, 410, 415, 864
—war with dwarves 63, 412–13, 598, 653
*Bifur (dwarf, member of Thorin & Company) passim.
—largely silent 23, 809; speaks 34, 203, 322–3, 475, 481, 508, 774, 775.
—on watch with Bombur 659
—origin of name 867, 869
—plays clarinet 36, 54, 776
—relationship to Bofur and Bombur 313, 322–3, 508, 519
—Thorin’s honourguard 774, 808
Big Dipper (constellation) 18, 21
Bilbo Baggins: see Baggins, Bilbo.
Bilbo, Senator Theodore (American politician) 47
Bilbo-blade (sword) 47–48
Bilbo-catch (game) 48, 60
‘Bilbo’ as real-world family name 47
‘Bilbo’ as real-world place name 60
(Bilbo Cemetery, Louisiana; Bilbo Island, Albama; Bilboe’s Landing, Alabama; Lake Bilbo, Arkansas).
Bilbo’s Contract (see Frontispiece, plate two) 23, 88–9, 105–7, 110, 377, 495, 576, 662–4
‘Bilbo’s Last Song’ (poem by JRRT) 3
Bilbo’s Ring: see The Ring.
Bimble Bay (‘Tales and Songs of Bimble Bay’) 167, 187, 376–7, 463–4. 499, 529. See also ‘The Dragon’s Visit’, ‘Glip’, ‘Knocking at the Door’ (‘The Mewlips’), ‘Progress in Bimble Town’.
Birds: see Crows, Eagles, Owls, Ravens, Thrush.
The Black Mountain (earlier name for The Lonely Mountain) 9, 12–13, 15
Blackwelder, Richard xxxv, 25, 183, 292, 723, 849
Bladorion 53, 488, 493; see Dor-na-Fauglith.
Bladorthin the King 53, 482, 514, 525
Bladorthin the wizard 30–1, 48–52, & passim. See also Gandalf the Wizard.
—contrasted with Gandalf the Grey 51
—described 30, 48–49, 213, 770
—human or ‘wizard’ 49–50, 269, 877
—name change to ‘Gandalf’ xi, 11, 15, 293, 301, 476–7
—organizer of adventures/Bilbo not his first choice 30, 51–2, 61–2, 770
—origin of name 52–53, 62–63
—withdrawal foreseen 14, 230, 243, 246, 252, 300, 795, 806
‘The Bladorthin Typescript’ (Phase I) xxiv, 28–44 & passim.
Bladorwen (Yavanna) 52–53, 62. See also Yavanna.
Bláin (giant) 24, 866, 871; see Balin.
Blessing, Matt (archivist) xxxv, 357
Blue Mountains
—site of Nogrod and Belegost 80–1, 433
—site of Thorin Oakenshield’s Halls in Exile 81, 338, 432, 705–6, 805, 815, 819
Blue Wizards 273–274, 288, 697, 700
Bodleian Library (Oxford) xxxi, xxxv, 22, 26, 60, 149, 187, 194, 282, 462, 540, 702, 880
Bodruith (dwarvenking, lord of Belegost) 79
—origin of name 79
Boffin, Peregrin: see Trotter the halfling.
*Bofur (dwarf, member of Thorin & Company) passim.
—‘fought like mad’ 94
—largely silent 23, 809; speaks 34, 239, 774, 775
—on watch with Bombur 659
—origin of name 867, 869
—plays clarinet 36, 54, 776
—relationship to Bifur and Bombur 313, 322–3, 508, 519
—rescued from Smaug 508
—Thorin’s honourguard 774, 808
—tries to build fire 91, 98, 100
Boldog (Orc-Maiar) 138–9, 149, 218, 710–13
Bolg (goblin) 141, 218, 708–13, 854
—origin of name 141, 710 (Magol), 712–13 (Ivernian)
Bolger, Fatty (hobbit) 63
Bombadil 59, 168, 267, 326
—as genius loci 59, 267
*Bombur (dwarf, member of Thorin & Company) passim.
—carries Bilbo 134, 199–200, 204, 211, 213
—dreams of a faerie feast 146–7, 352, 353, 354, 397, 415
—‘fought like mad’ 94
—grumbler 134, 202, 204, 306, 349, 358, 360, 659, 661, 795, 806
—obese 54, 63, 236, 310, 349–50, 387, 437, 474, 649, 774, 794, 795, 800
—old (‘old Bombur’) 310, 312, 313, 649, 663–4, 800
—origin of name 784, 867, 869
—plays drum 36, 54, 776, 784
—relationship with Bifur and Bofur 313, 322–3, 508, 519
—rescued from Smaug 508
—Thorin’s honourguard 774, 808
—tricked by Bilbo 659–61, 664
—tries to light a fire 91, 98, 100
Bonsor, Ann: see BBC Radio Oxford.
Book of Job (Bible) 503, 517, 523–4, 559
The Book of Kells 220
The Book of Lost Tales (HME I & II) xxxii–xxxiii & passim.
see also ‘Ælfwine of England’, ‘Gilfanon’s Tale’, ‘The History of Eriol’, ‘The Nauglafring’, ‘The Tale of Tinúviel’, and ‘Turambar and the Foalókë’.
The Book of Mazarbul 23
‘The Bovadium Fragments’ (unpublished fable by JRRT) 462
Brandybuck, Marmaduke (hobbit) 60. Earlier name for Brandybuck, Merry.
Brandybuck, Merry (Bilbo’s third cousin) 60
Bratman, David (Inklings scholar) xxxv, 759
Bratt, Edith: see Tolkien, Edith.
Bree 18, 58, 140, 289, 451, 463, 792, 804–5, 810, 814–16, 819, 826, 829, 832
Breton legendry (Breton lay, Breton ballad) 26, 147, 281, 398–404, 423–6; see also ‘The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun’; ‘Lord Nann and the Korrigan’; Map, Walter; Marie de France; Sir Orfeo.
Briggs, Katharine (folklorist) 103, 109–10, 322, 325, 396–9, 403–4, 421–2, 426–7, 841, 847, 850, 852, 865
—her role in discovering Denham’s use of ‘hobbit’ 841
Broceliand/Broseliand 19–20, 26, 80; see also Beleriand.
The Brothers Grimm (authors) 43, 51, 61, 79, 110, 192, 377. See also Grimm, Jacob.
Browning, Robert (poet) 454, 463–4
Buckhurst, Helen 110, 881, 885
Bullroarer Took: see Took, Bullroarer.
Burchfield, Robert (lexicographer, student of JRRT) 849, 858–9
Burglar-mark on Bilbo’s door 8–9, 10, 31–2, 34, 39–40, 51, 71, 772, 774, 776–7
—found by Oin 9, 40
—translated 40, 776–7
Burin son of Balin (dwarf) 870–1
Burns, Marjorie xxxv, 110, 424, 425
Caedmon Records 58, 107, 187
Carpenter, Humphrey xv, xxxiv, 4, 19, 167, 342, 491, 524, 539, 636, 702, and passim.
—account of the 1960 Hobbit 765–6, 810
—HC’s account of book’s composition xvi, xxii–xxiv, xxv–xxvi, xli, 374
—HC’s theory of book’s abandonment xviii–xx, xxxviii, 554–5, 627, 633–4
Carroll, Lewis (pseud. of Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) 56–57, 64–65, 214, 368, 491, 544, 707, 837, 859
—Alice in Wonderland (compilation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass) 56, 64–5, 544, 837. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 56, 65, 837; Through the Looking-Glass 56, 65, 368, 837.
—Phantasmagoria and Other Poems 65
—poetry of 65. ‘Hiawatha’s Photographing’ 64–5; The Hunting of the Snark 837; ‘Jabberwocky’ 65, 368; ‘Little Birds’ (‘The Pig’s Tale’) 214, 660; ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’ 65; and ‘What Tottles Meant’ 65.
—Sylvie and Bruno & Sylvie and Bruno Concluded 65, 214, 660
The Catenian Association (lay Catholic fraternal organization) xli, 746
Cave Art (Altamira, Lascaux, Chauvet) 150, 255, 448
Cave Bear xviii, 186, 254–5
Caxton, Wm xii, 195–6
see also Arthurian legend.
Chalk Figures 528
Chambers, R. W. 3, 5, 526, 853, 881, 883
Chaucer, Geoffrey (author) 80, 108–9, 147, 226, 281, 758
—The Canterbury Tales 80, 108–9, 147, 758
—The Parliament of Fowls 147, 220, 226
Cherwell Edge (Rev. Mother St. Teresa Gale) xxxviii, 635
Chess 8–9, 16. See Golf.
Children of Ilúvatar (Elves & Men) 82, 273, 410, 536, 616, 721, 877. See also Two Kindreds.
—Dwarves as Children of Ilúvatar 721–2
Children of Morgoth (Children of Melko) 85, 136, 144, 218, 220, 221, 326
—bats as Children of Morgoth 675, 716–18
—giants as Children of Morgoth 144
—goblins as Children of Melko 136, 221
—wargs as Children of Morgoth 218
see also Children of Ungoliant.
Children of Ungoliant (Giant Spiders) 318, 326–34
Children of the Valar (Maiar) 269
China & the Chinese 9, 17, 40, 43
—Chinese dragons 541
Chrétien de Troyes (Yvain: The Knight of the Lion) 177–9, 181–2, 192, 390
Chrysophylax Dives (dragon) 75, 145, 486–7, 502, 527, 529–30, 541–2, 565, 612, 786
The Cirth (runes) 22, 602; see also Runes.
Clark Hall, John R. (Old English scholar) 217, 426, 535, 702
—Clark Hall Beowulf xl, 693–4, 882, 884; as Tolkien’s first known contact with Allen & Unwin ibid.
Classical Literature & Mythology 26, 100, 147, 151–2, 176–7, 182 193, 277, 285, 335–6, 343–4, 398, 428, 538, 559, 616, 841–2, 844, 852
Coghill, Nevill (Inkling) 109, 126, 151, 636, 702
Compass Rose 21–2
The Cottage of Lost Play (precursor to Rivendell) 62, 119, 147, 697
Coulter, Janice iv, xxxv, xxxvi, 186, 837
The County Round (earlier name for The Shire) 10, 16; replaced by The Country Round 70, 74; ultimately replaced by The Hobbiton Country 777
Crankshaw, Edward xxxix
Crockett, S. R. (The Black Douglas) 216–17, 224, 859
Crows 22, 266, 362, 478–9, 485, 569, 571, 583, 618–19, 623–4, 640, 642–3, 717
Cthulhu Mythos 64
Cuiviénen (the Elven Eden) 138, 410
D&D (roleplaying game): see Dungeons & Dragons.
Dagnall, Susan xxv, xxxiii, xxxvi, xxxviii, xxxix, 152, 635, 693–4
Dain son of Nain (dwarvenking, King under the Mountain) xi, 269, 477, 501–2, 564, 572, 575, 600, 627, 644, 654, 657, 658, 662, 666–77, 680–1, 702–14, 720, 822–4, 828
—becomes King under the Mountain 564, 600, 680, 685, 703–5
—first appearance in text 644, 654, 674, 703, 713
—killed Bolg’s father 705, 709, 712
—origin of name 606, 674, 706, 867–8, 870
—relationship to Thorin 269, 501–2, 644, 674, 703, 704, 708 (first cousins)
Dale Town 10, 18–9. Dale 70–2, 116, 362, 436, 453, 472, 475, 486, 564, 583, 592–4, 600, 626, 645, 650, D’Ardenne, Simone 881, 885, and passim. Men of Dale passim.
Dark Elves 59, 81, 405–7. See also Eöl.
The Dark Forest (Germany) 19. See also Mirkwood.
The Dead Marshes 25, 492
de Camp, L. Sprague (Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers) 64
Deep-Elves (Noldor, Gnomes) 78, 315, 324, 405–7, 412, 429. See also Three Kindreds of the Elves, Noldor, Gnomes.
Denham, Michael A. 264–5, 841–3, 846–8, 850–4
Denham Tracts [1858] 853
The Denham Tracts [1892 & 1895] xxxvii, 125, 263–5, 841–54
Department of Western Manuscripts: see Bodleian Library.
Descriptive Bibliography (= J. R. R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography): xxxiv & passim. See also Hammond, Wayne G.
Dialectical Dictionaries: see Haigh and Wright.
A Dictionary of Fairies: see Briggs, Katharine.
Dinosaurs 43, 342, 540–1
Dodgson, Rev. Charles Lutwidge: see Carroll, Lewis.
Dol Amroth, Lords of 59. See also Imrazôr the Númenorean.
Donnelly, Ignatius 18
*Dori (dwarf, member of Thorin & Company) passim.
—‘a decent fellow’ 204
—carries Bilbo (‘not a porter’) 133–4, 204, 209, 211, 213
—featured in Plot Notes A 295–6
—fights with Nori 91, 99, 100
—guards outpost at Ravenhill 626
—origin of name 868, 870
—plays flute 36
—speaks 33, 133, 209, 307, 593, 732, 774
—the strongest member of Thorin & Company 348
Doriath (elvenwood, realm of Thingol) 21, 121, 325, 331, 341, 403, 409, 411–17, 419, 421, 431–3, 561, 710–11. See also Artanor.
Dorkins, Fattie (Mr. Bliss) 63
Dor Lómin 62
Dor-na-Fauglith (later Anfauglith) 20, 53, 62, 487
Dorthonion (Beren’s homeland) 20, 21, 418
Dorwinion 62, 383, 417–20, 652
‘Doworst’ (poem by JRRT) 3
‘The Dragon’s Visit’ (poem by JRRT) 376, 499, 527, 529–30, 543, 565. See also Bimble Bay.
The Dragon: see Smaug.
The Dragon of the Far Mountains 31, 51
Dragons 483–9, 525–534, 538–43, & passim.
—Tolkien’s dragons: see also Ancalagon the Black, Chrysophylax Dives, the Dragon of the Far Mountains, Glorund, Pryftan, Smaug, Scatha the Worm, &c.
—Traditional dragons: see Fafnir, Beowulf’s dragon, the Midgard Serpent, &c.
drasils (goblin-mounts) xviii, 142
Drayton, Michael (Elizabethan poet) 47–8, 120
‘The Dream of Macsen Wledig’ (Mabinogion) 147 ‘The Dream of Rhonabwy’ (Mabinogion) 57, 147
Dundas-Grant, James (Inkling) 343–4
Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) 192, 225, 253, 527
Dunsany, Lord (Edward Plunkett, author) 15, 18, 26, 47, 55, 60, 64, 99, 109, 376–7, 396, 419, 422, 485, 526, 542, 838, 852
—The Book of Wonder 47, 60, 64, 99, 376–7, 485, 526. ‘Chu-bu and Sheemish’ 60; ‘The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller’ 64, 99; ‘The Hoard of the Gibbelins’ 60, 376–7, 485, 526; ‘How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles’ 99, 376–7; ‘The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolater’ 47; ‘Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance’ 526.
—A Dreamer’s Tales 55. ‘Bethmora’ 55.
—‘The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth’ (The Sword of Welleran) 526
—The Gods of Pegana 64, 422; its influence on the creation of the Valar 64, 422.
—The King of Elfland’s Daughter 396
—The Last Book of Wonder 18, 55, 99, 109, 419. ‘The Bird of the Difficult Eye’ 18, 99, 109; ‘The Long Porter’s Tale’ 18; ‘The Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men’ 99; ‘The Secret of the Sea’ 419; ‘A Story of Land and Sea’ 55.
—The Man Who Ate the Phoenix 419. ‘The Opal Arrow-Head’ 419.
—A Night at an Inn 99
—Beyond the Fields We Know: The Short Stories of Lord Dunsany (Rateliff) 64, 422
Durin (dwarvenking, ancester of the Longbeards)
—ancestor of Longbeards 77, 81, 116, 676
—origin of name 42, 77, 85, 673, 706–7, 867, 869; partnered with Dvalin 42, 77, 85, 706–7
Durin’s Day 22–3, 116, 123–4, 127, 135, 371, 478–81, 581, 622, 652, 664, 813, 824–6, 828, 829–30
—occurs on the first new moon of autumn 116, 123–4, 127, 371, 480–1, 826, 828, 829–31
—occurs on the last new moon of autumn 123–4, 480–1, 592, 652, 664, 824
Durin’s Folk: see Indrafangs, Longbeards 22, [76,] 77, [80,] 81, 116, [338.] 436, 438, 528, 533, 619, 644, 647, 654, 680, 704, 705, 756.
Dvalin (dwarf) 42, 77, 706–7, 866–9; partnered with Durin 42, 77, 706–7.
Dvergatal (dwarf name-list) 15, 23–4, 444, 455, 464–5, 674, 706, 757, 759, 857, 866–71; see also Elder Edda, Prose Edda.
*Dwalin (dwarf, member of Thorin & Company), passim.
—acts as lookout 91, 98, 100, 319
—brother of Balin 33, 98, 319, 322, 477–8, 674, 685, 773
—doubts Bilbo’s competence 8, 39, 54, 518; has exaggerated opinion of Bilbo’s burglaring abilities 475
—first to arrive 32, 772
—first to notice Gandalf/Thorin is missing 314
—loans Bilbo a green cloak 89
—origin of name 42, 79, 85, 706, 866; see also Dvalin.
—plays viola 36
—survivor of Thrain’s expedition 338–9, 477, 787
Dwarves 76–80 & passim.
—as an evil people (Children of Melko?) 76–78, 85, and passim.
—‘old quarrel’ with the Elves 54–5, 63, 315, 411–5, and passim.
—‘Dwarfs’, ‘Dwarves’, & Dwarrows (alternate plurals) 80, 85–6, 186, 208, 215, 384, 392, 441, 447, 857
—the Two Races of the Dwarves: see Indrafangs (Longbeards) and Nauglath.
—origin myth & fate in afterlife 79–80, 721–2
Dwarves, Petty: see Petty Dwarves.
Dyson, Hugo (Inkling) 636
‘Éadig Béo Þu (Old English poem by JRRT) 57, 188. see also Songs for the Philologists.
Earendel (Halfelven, father of Elrond) 121–2, 125, 278–9, 327–30, 392, 427, 433–4, 528, 565, 596, 605, 608, 617; later spelled ‘Eärendil’.
—the Eârendel poems xl, 327, 330, 332, 427, 538
Eddison, E. R. (The Worm Ouroboros) 17, 25, 226, 702, 872, 878
Egyptian Mythology 103, 193, 223, 329, 589–90
Elbereth (Vala) 18, 274
Eldamar: see Elvenhome.
The Elder Edda 12–3, 15, 23–24, 42, 79, 86, 103, 168, 256, 298, 424, 428, 444, 455, 464–5, 484, 521, 528, 605, 615, 673–4, 685, 706, 721, 757–8, 857, 866–71. See also Alvissmál, Dvergatal, Fáfnismál, Hávamál, Helgaqviða, Hjorvarðzsonar, Reginsmál, Þrymsqviða, Vafthrúthnismál, Völuspá.
Elrond Halfeven (son of Eärendel) 52, 61, [62], 104, 115–17, 119–25, 127, 136, 200, 258, 362, 366, 392, 410, 415, 431, 434, 482, 502, 530, 576, 589, 617, 687–90, 697, 750, 793, 800, 802–3, 810–12, 814, 829–30, 838
Elston, Charles B. (archivist) iv, xxxv
Elvenhome 52, 324, 405–6, 419, 427, 429, 433, 783; Eldamar 324, 409. See also Faerie and Fairyland.
Elves 395–408 & passim.
—Elves of Rivendell 46, 113–121, 124–5
—in The Father Christmas Letters xviii, 120, 125
—Wood-elves 306–8, 315–16, 324–5, 352–4, 361–2, 366, 379–95, 408–11, 552, 640–2, 672, 681–2, & passim.
Elvish (language): see Gnomish, Noldorin, Qenya, Quenya, Sindarin.
English and Medieval Studies: Presented to J. R. R. Tolkien (festschrift) 65
Eöl (dark elf) 59
Éowyn 42, 179
Eriol the Wanderer
—as compiler of ‘Book of Lost Tales’ 52, 62, 119, 427
—as dreamer 148
—ties to real-world history 100, 414, 447
see also Ælfwine of England, ‘The History of Eriol’.
Errol, Alboin (The Lost Road) 77, 148, 279, 686, 699
Errol, Audoin 77, 148
Eruman 143, 150, 328, 330
Esgaroth (Elvish name for Lake Town) 418, 554, 561–62, 566–7, 571, 610
—originally named Esgaron 554, 566, 569–71
Essays Presented to Charles Williams (memorial festschrift) xxxiv, xl, 59, 281, 421
Faerie 26, 324, 405, 427–8; Fairyland 315, 324, 405, 411, 428.
Faerie Brides & Fairy Wives 59, 864–5. See also Aredhel, Arwen, Ides Ælfscýne, Idril, Lúthien, Melian, Mithrellas, Tooks.
—Took ancestor’s marriage with 29, 46, 59, 769
Fafnir (dragon) 75, 86, 484–5, 491, 493, 500–3, 521, 531–2, 534, 540, 543, 560, 570–1, 596, 599, 611–12, 623, 685
Fáfnismál 42, 484, 521, 523, 612, 624, 685. See also The Elder Edda.
Fairy: see Elf.
‘The Fall of Gondolin’ (BLT II) 123, 125, 137–8, 221, 223, 230, 415, 421, 542, 675
Fang 22: see Indrafang (Longbeards).
Fangli (fay) 82–3, 85; also known as Fankil and Fúkil.
Fangorn (Treebeard) 22, 77, 108, 143–5, 148, 267, 272, 546
Fangorn Forest 343
Farmer Giles of Ham (FGH) xxxiv, xxxix, 4–5, 16, 18, 46, 55, 63, 74–75, 104, 145, 171, 186, 270, 279, 422, 454, 460, 462, 485–7, 492–3, 502, 528, 542, 546, 557, 585, 612, 654, 694, 714–15, 786
—date of composition (immediately preceding Hobbit) 74, 492–3
—excluded from legendarium with difficulty 16
Father Christmas Letters (FCL) xviii, xxxiv, xxxviii, 50, 120, 138, 141–2, 150, 168, 186, 254–5, 269, 280, 300, 448, 527–8, 542, 630, 686, 697, 717
—and dating of The Hobbit xviii, xix–xx, xxii 458, 527, 630, 686, 717
—as documents (‘handouts’) 23
Father Christmas as wizard xvi, xxxvi, 50, 269, 697
Fays (= Maiar) 50, 62, 81–82, 87, 415, 717
—Fairy (elf) vs. Fay (Maia) 59
Fëanor (elvenking) 25, 119, 392, 617
—the Alphabet of Fëanor 757; see tengwar
—creates Silmarils 601, 604–5, 607, 616
—the Jewels of Fëanor 608, 609; see Silmarils.
Fëanorian (Elven script) 65, 857. see Tengwar.
Felagund: see Finrod Felagund.
Fellin: see Battle of the Green Fields of Fellin.
Fénelon, François (‘The Enchanted Ring’) 180–2
FGH: see Farmer Giles of Ham.
Fili (dwarf): see Fili & Kili.
*Fili & Kili (dwarves, members of Thorin & Company) passim.
—as scouts 128–9, 472, 473, 482
—deaths of xi, 501, 684, 704, 707
—‘fighting fiercely’ against trolls 796, 798, 808
—Fili younger than Kili: 348; Kili younger than Fili: 355.
—help acquire boat 348
—kinship with Thorin (great-uncle) xi, 438, 444, 612, 684, 704; and each other (brothers) 136, 322, 355, 438, 674, 704.
—mental reservations to Thorin’s course 649, 657
—nearly drowned 91, 794
—not identical in appearance 312, 322
—origin of name 869
—play fiddles 36; play harps 589, 602
—retrieve supplies during Siege 645; pursued by elves (Fili wounded and captured) 556, 626.
—survive Battle of Five Armies ix, 681, 684–5
—youngest and most active dwarves in the Company 7, 14, 38, 54, 128, 135, 437, 474, 477, 794, 806
Fimbulfambi xii, 9, 12, 15, 24, 456, 464, 758; see also Gandalf’s Grandfather, Thror.
—origin of name 12, 15, 24, 606, 674, 708
Fimbulfambi’s Map xiv, 9, 17–23, 77, 105, 118, 297, 458, 476, 479, 488, 591, 602, 676. See Frontispiece, plate one.
Fingolfin the elven-king (high king of the Noldor) 12, 15, 24–25, 221–2, 410, 803. See also Golfin.
Fingolfin the goblin-king xii, 8, 12, 15–16, 25, 28, 39, 43, 45, 279, 407, 712
—name changed to Golfimbul 43, 712
Finnish Mythology: see Kalevala.
Finrod Felagund (elvenking) 12, 20, 410, 432, 530, 532, 597
—House of Finrod: descendents of Finarfin (earlier Finrod), Fingolfin’s brother 407.
Finwë (elvenking, father of Fëanor, Fingolfin, & Finarfin/Finrod) 24–25, 604; earlier Finn 25, Gelmir 24–5; Gnomish name Golfinweg 24.
First Outline 229–30 & passim.
First Typescript xxv, passim.
First Whisper of ‘The Wind in the Willows’: see Grahame, Kenneth.
Fisher, Matt xxxv
Flieger, Verlyn xxxv, xxxviii, 26, 64, 74, 149, 183, 193–4, 404, 423–4, 426, 545
Forest of Broceliand: see Broceliand.
Forest of Doriath: see Doriath.
The Forest of Night 20, 331: see Taur-na-Fuin.
The Forest River 19, 298, 366–7, 382, 388–9, 394–5, 435–6
‘For W. H. A.’ (Old English/Modern English double poem by JRRT) 65
Fossils 43, 321, 341, 527, 537, 540
Fox, Adam (Inkling) 193
‘The Fox Went Out’ (folksong) 58, 107, 188. See also ‘The Root of the Boot’.
Frodo (hobbit): see Baggins, Frodo.
Fúkil: see Fangli.
Furth, Charles (editor at Allen & Unwin) xxiv, xxxiv, xxxviii, 613–14, 694, 882, 883, 887, 889, 890
The Futhark (Old English runes) 22, 277, 757; see also Runes.
Gamgee, Sam (hobbit) 51, 102, 247, 327, 463, 565
*Gandalf the Dwarf (dwarvenking, leader of Gandalf & Company). passim. Original name (Chapters I–IX) of Thorin Oakenshield. See also Thorin Oakenshield.
—eldest among the dwarves 380, 390, 477–8, 720
—fights spiders 294–5, 301
—fights trolls 94–6, 864
—name change to Thorin (Oakenshield) xii, 11, 15, 293, 298, 323–4, 347, 354, 392, 444, 455–7, 476–7
—origin of name 15, 24, 79, 277, 289, 444–5 (‘wand-elf’), 867, 869
—plays harp 36
Gandalf’s Father 20, 72–3, 83, 455–7, 464; death of (Necromancer) 73, 83, 253, 326, 338–9; see also Thrain.
Gandalf’s Grandfather 40, 44, 71–73, 455–7, 464; death of (Moria) 73, 338; see also Fimbulfambi.
Gandalf the Wizard: see Bladorthin.
—Gandalf the Grey vs. Gandalf the White 48–49.
The Gates of Morn 21; Gates of Night 329–30.
A Gateway to Sindarin: see Salo, David.
Gautiska (Neo-Gothic) 278; see Gothic (language).
Gelmir (elvenking): see Finwë.
Gem of Girion (Arkenstone) xi, 364–6, 369, 373, 375–6, 377, 457, 466, 496, 499, 501, 514–15, 518, 525, 568–70, 573–6, 579–80, 586–8, 590, 595, 603–4, 606–7, 609, 613–14
Genius Loci (Bombadil) 59, 267
Geoffrey of Monmouth (author): see Arthurian legend.
George Allen & Unwin: see Allen & Unwin.
‘The Gest of Beren son of Barahir and Lúthien the Fay’ 87: see ‘The Lay of Leithian’.
Giants 24, 31, 51, 59, 61, 85, 103–4, 110, 128–9, 143–5, 150–1, 158, 168, 200, 211, 229, 231, 234, 247, 255, 261, 264, 270, 374, 460, 522–3, 528, 540, 680, 706, 714–15, 758–9, 805, 811, 842, 844, 848, 852.
—giants as Children of Morgoth 144
‘Gilfanon’s Tale’ (BLT I) 50, 76, 78, 81, 85, 697
Gilson, Christopher (Tolkien linguist) 27, 63
Gilson, R. Q. (T.C.B.S.) 759, 891
Gimli (dwarf) 224, 477, 489, 591, 611, 704, 705, 808, 822, 871
—too young to accompany Thorin & Company on Quest of Erebor 477
Glamdring (Bladorthin/Gandalf’s sword) 97, 115, 122, 133–4, 136–7, 199, 564, 799
The Glamhoth (Orc) 25. See Goblins.
‘Glip’ (poem by JRRT) 167–8, 187. See also Bimble Bay.
*Gloin (dwarf, member of Thorin & Company)
—at Council of Elrond 339, 356, 614; Bilbo’s apology 339, 356.
—brother of Oin 674
—doubts Bilbo’s competence 9, 40, 54, 518, 788–9; cowed by Bladorthin 44.
—father of Gimli Gloinson 477, 704
—fights with Oin 99, 100, 796
—fond of golf 40
—group’s chief fire-maker (with Oin) 98–100, 129, 210, 568, 579–80, 586, 795–6
—helps acquire the boat 348
—no instrument specified 36
—origin of name 868, 869
Glorfindel 61, 120, 221, 415–16, 433–4, 530
Glorund (dragon) 20, 75, 373, 486, 493, 500, 502–3, 520, 527, 529–32, 534, 540, 559–60, 565, 597–9, 611–12, 617
Gnomes (the Noldor) xxxix, 24, 26, 78, 85–6, 115, 118, 122, 315, 324, 405–6, 411–12, 418–9, 429, 431–2, 853, 857
—Red Gnomes (in FCL) xviii, 120, 142
Gnomish (language; earliest form of Noldorin/Sindarin): see Gnomish Lexicon.
—relationship to Noldorin and Sindarin 26–27, 424, 562
‘Gnomish Is Sindarin’ (Gilson) 27
The Gnomish Lexicon (Parma Eldalamberon XI) 26–27, 52–53, 62–63, 76–77, 79, 136–7, 143, 261–2, 275, 328, 377, 392–3, 417–18, 562, 616–17, 675; also 22, 24, 221, 536, 564, 610.
Gobi Desert (the Great Desert of Gobi) 9, 17, 43; see also The Last Desert.
Goblins 130–4, 137–43, 155, 161–3, 204–9, 244, 670–2, 677, 679–80, 681, & passim.
—‘Goblin’ vs. ‘Orc’ 137
—goblin-kings: see Azog, Bolg, Fingolfin, Golfimbul, the Great Goblin.
—in The Father Christmas Letters xviii, 142
—pictures of xviii, 142
The Golden Tree: see The Two Trees of Valinor.
Golf Joke 8–9, 16, 39–40, 45, 279, 785
Golfimbul (goblin-king) 43, 712, 776, 785. Replaced Fingolfin; replaced by Gulfimbul 776, 785.
Golfin (elven prince) 24; earlier name for Fingolfin.
Golfinweg (elven king) 24; Gnomish name for Finwë.
Gollum 55, 154–61, 164–8, 185–7, 200, 732–45, 747–8, & passim.
—described in Baynes essay 186–7
—origin of name (onomatopoeia) 57, 155
—pictured in FCL xviii
Gondolin (elven city) 84, 119, 122–3, 132, 136, 137, 141, 153, 155, 163, 220–2, 325, 392, 415, 432–4, 502, 527–8, 541, 609, 675, 701, 836
Gondor 62, 144, 225, 270, 289, 410, 418, 453, 494, 616, 746, 807, 849
Gorbo the Snerg 47. See Wyke-Smith, E. A.
Gordon, E. V. 147, 151, 261, 284, 291, 449, 516, 707, 751, 881
Gordon, George 881, 889–90
Goths (Germanic tribe) 19, 42, 194, 278–9, 291–2, 451, 652
—Gothic (language) 57, 275–6, 278, 280, 284–5, 291–2, 336, 453, 605–6, 615–16
Grahame, Kenneth (author) 45–46, 58–59, 148, 281, 287, 462, 517, 526, 707, 837
—First Whisper of ‘The Wind in the Willows’ 58
—The Golden Age 148, 837
—‘The Reluctant Dragon’ 517, 526
—The Wind in the Willows 45–6, 58–9, 256, 281, 287, 462, 707
Gram Hill 8; earlier name for Mount Gram.
The Great Dragons: see Dragons.
Great Goblin 43, 132–3, 136, 139–40, 149, 205, 218, 235, 375, 464, 670, 709. Also The Goblin King 136, 163.
The Great Lands (= Beleriand & Middle-earth) 24, 26, 248, 772
The Great Mill 89, 98, 106–7, 110, 690, 699, 814
Green Brother, Fr. Christmas’s 269, 697
Green Fields of Fellin: see Battle of the Green Fields of Fellin.
‘Green Great Dragon’: see ‘The Dragon’s Visit’.
The Green Man (inn in Bywater) 98, 106, 699; changed to The Green Dragon Inn 106–7, 110, 699, 814.
Green, Roger Lancelyn (student of JRRT) 65, 245, 253, 421, 851, 858–60
Greeves, Arthur (friend of CSL) xvii, xix, xxii
Grettir’s Saga 110
‘The Grey Annals’: see ‘Annals of Beleriand’.
The Grey Mountains 21, 81, 487–9, 527–8, 656, 675–6, 706, 779, 785–6
Griffiths, Elaine (student of JRRT) xxxviii, xl, 635, 637, 693–4, 702, 881–2
Grimm, Jacob (philologist) 104, 110, 169–70, 277–8, 290–1, 403, 488, 605–6, 611, 615–16
Grimm, Wilhelm (fairy-tale writer): see The Brothers Grimm.
Grove, Jennie 881, 887
Gueroult, Denys: see BBC Radio interview.
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift) 58. See Lilliputians.
Gyges: see Ring of Gyges.
Gylfaginning (‘The Deluding of Gylfi’) 168, 172, 444, 455, 615, 706, 866, 868–71; see The Prose Edda.
Hadley, Florence Tolkien (aunt of JRRT) 881, 884
Haigh, Walter E. (A New Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District) 56, 109, 137, 263
Hammond, Wayne G. xxxiv, xxxv–xxxvi, 25, 185, 187–8, 284, 285, 292, 317, 357, 519, 524, 539–40, 560, 693–5, 723, 749, 873, 877, 878
—Descriptive Bibliography xxi, xxviii, & passim.
Hammond & Scull 110, 266, 284, 285, 292, 333, 539, 719. See also Hammond, Wayne G.; Scull, Christina.
Harshaw, Ruth (interviewer of JRRT) xiv
Hávamál 15, 24, 42, 706. See also Elder Edda.
Havard, Dr. ‘Humphrey’ (Inkling) xxxix, 636
Heidreks Saga (The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise) 42, 77, 85, 168–9, 173–4, 188, 192, 522, 706, 708
Heimsókn 59, 256, 281
Helgaqviða Hjorvarðzsonar 103. See also Elder Edda.
Hercules (mythological hero) 343, 559
High-Elven 62; see Quenya.
Hill, Joy (Tolkien’s secretary) 3, 5, 60
The Hill 28–30, 36, 38, 45–6, 98, 106, 474, 510, 521, 531, 539, 566, 614, 699, 770–3, 815, 818
Hill of Himring 20, 266
Hindu Kush (mountain range) 9, 17, 43
‘The History of Eriol’ (BLT II) 100, 329
‘A History of the Gnomes’ xxxix: see Quenta Silmarillion (1937 Quenta).
The History of Middle-earth series xxxii-xxxiii, xxxv, & passim.
‘The Hoard’ (ATB poem 14) 75, 85, 527, 529, 533, 543, 596–7
Hobbits 29, 58, 91–2, 768–9, 846–9, 850, & passim.
—origin of the word ‘hobbit’ xiii-xvii, xxxvii, 851–65
Hobyahs 860–3
The ‘Home Manuscript’ xxv, xxxviii, 19, 435, 635, 637–8, 642, 676
Hostetter, Carl (Tolkien linguist) xxxv, 64, 152, 284–5, 290, 423, 853
Houghton Mifflin Company (American publisher) 17, 169, 185, 188, 444, 560, 613, 765, 782
Hrolf Kraki’s Saga 256–61, 282, 449
H-S (= Hammond-Scull); indicates a piece of art reproduced in Artist & Illustrator.
Huan the Hound 20, 218, 326
Humans: see Men.
Hunnewell, Gary xxxv, 188, 286
Huns 19, 25, 42, 279, 292, 451
Húrin (father of Túrin, earlier Úrin) 63, 125, 412, 557, 686
Hy Breasail 26. See also Broceliand.
Icelandic Legends: see Norse Mythology.
‘Ides Ælfscýne’ (Old English poem by JRRT) 57, 59, 121, 402, 427, 865. See also Songs for the Philologists.
Idril (elven princess) 59, 122, 864
Ilúvatar (God) 60, 62, 78, 81–2, 139, 148–9, 173, 227, 433, 721–2
‘Imram’ (poem by JRRT) 266, 427–8; see also 419.
Imrazôr the Númenorean 59, 864–5
Incledon, Marjorie 881–2
Incledon, Mary 881–3
Indrafangs (Longbeards) 22, 77–9, 86, 431, 598. One of the two kindreds of the Dwarves; later Durin’s folk. See Longbeards.
The Inklings xxxix, xl, 25, 193, 219, 344, 546, 636, 740, 878
—The Hobbit read to group before publication xxxviii, 635
—origins of group xxxix, 546, 636
See also Barfield, Owen; Coghill, Nevill; Dundas-Grant, James; Dyson, Hugo; Havard, Humphrey; Fox, Adam; Lewis, C. S.; Lewis, Warnie; Tolkien, Christopher; Tolkien, J. R. R.; Williams, Charles; Wrenn, Charles.
Irish (language & myth) 26, 247, 262, 419, 424, 427, 713
The Iron Hills 18, 81, 478, 488, 594, 654, 658, 662, 671, 676, 702, 705, 706, 708, 778, 786, 805, 822
‘The Istari’ (1954 essay by JRRT) 48–50, 270, 272, 275, 697
Istari (the Five Wizards) 49–50, 270, 272–5, 289, 451, 697
—as angels 49–50, 270
‘Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden’ (poem by JRRT; earlier version of ‘The Hoard’) 75, 376, 543–4, 596–7
Ivernian (language) 713, 853–4
‘Jabberwocky’ (Carroll) 65, 368
Jacobs, Joseph 51, 860–62, 865
‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ (English fairytale) 61, 145, 374
‘Jack the Giant Killer’ (English folktale) 61, 145, 374
Jason (mythological hero) 343
Jennings, Aileen (& Elizabeth) xxxviii, 635, 637, 881, 883–4
The Jewish People
—as template for the Dwarves 79–80, 86, 757
—Jewish calendar’s influence on dwarven calendar 123
—Tolkien’s opposition to Anti-Semitism 86–7
Jocelyn of Brakelond (medieval chronicler) 80
Jones, Gwyn 57, 179, 194, 257–9, 281–2, 494
J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator: see Artist & Illustrator.
Kalevala (Lönnrot)
—and riddle-contests 168, 188
—as literary model 26, 537
—as recovered mythology 181, 278
—Kalevala metre 65
Keightley, Thomas (folklorist) 425–7, 842, 845, 846
Khazad-dûm 80, 432, 614, 676; Dwarven name for Moria.
Khuzdul (language) 80, 606, 675. Affinities to Hebrew 80.
Kilbride, K. M. 881–2
Kilby, Clyde S. xxxv, xl, 64, 463–4
Kili (dwarf): see Fili & Kili.
‘King Sheave’ (HME V) 77, 282
King under the Mountain passim. See Fimbulfambi, Thror, Thorin Oakenshield, Dain.
The Kingdom under the Mountain passim.
Knatchbull-Huggesson, E. H. (Stories for My Children) 148, 396, 860, 863, 864
‘Knocking at the Door’ (‘The Mewlips’, poem by JRRT) 60, 370, 376–7. See also Bimble Bay.
Kocher, Paul 542, 565
Kreutzwald, Friedrich (‘Der Norlands Drache’/‘The Dragon of the North’) 181–2
Kullervo: see ‘The Story of Kullervo’, Kalevala.
La Belle Dame Sans Merci 57, 59, 402
Lake Town 19, 371, 382, 435–50, 547–9. See also Esgaroth, Esgaron.
Lang, Andrew 103, 151, 180–81, 194, 421, 484, 491, 503, 538, 859, 860
Langobards: see Lombards.
The Last Desert in the East 40, 43
‘The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun’ (Breton lay by JRRT) 281–2, 400–2, 425–6, 853
‘The Lay of the Children of Húrin’ (HME III) 62, 409, 417–20, 434, 487, 558, 566, 616, 710
‘The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin’ (HME III) 24–25, 675
‘The Lay of Leithian’ (HME III) xxxiii, xxxix, 15, 19–20, 25, 26, 82–84, 105, 139, 143, 175, 218, 221,–2, 253, 324–5, 331–2, 341, 407, 410–11, 416, 421, 430, 529–30, 566, 607, 710–11, 716, 878
Le Morte D’Arthur (Malory): see Arthurian legend.
‘Leaf by Niggle’ (LBN) xxi, 46, 152, 723
Lee, Alan (illustrator) xxxiii, 192
Letters from Father Christmas: see Father Christmas Letters.
Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien xxxiii & passim. Abbreviated Letters.
Lewis, C. S. (Inkling) xvii–xviii, xix, xxii, xxxviii–xxxix, 4, 59, 144, 149, 150, 179, 193, 194, 341, 343–4, 536, 544–6, 636, 838, 853, 859, 872, 878, 883
—critiques story 59, 256, 281, 563
—The Discarded Image 152, 723, 848, 853
—reads manuscript of The Hobbit before publication xv–xvi, xvii–xviii, xix, xxii, xxxviii–xxxix, 635, 637, 693, 704, 881–2
Lewis, Sinclair (author) xv, xxxvii, 59
Lewis, Major ‘Warnie’ (Inkling) xxxix, 152, 636
The Lhammas (HME V) 27, 406, 429, 675, 721, 722
Life and Legend: J. R. R. Tolkien: Life and Legend (Bodleian Exhibition Catalogue): see Priestman, Judith.
Lilliputians 29, 45
Linguaphone Institute 43
Linwë 85, 411: earlier name for Tinwelint.
Lineseys, The 881, 886–7
Lofting, Hugh (Dr. Dolittle series) 266–8, 286–7, 462, 694, 707
Lombards (Germanic tribe) 77, 80, 194–5, 279, 282, 448, 699–700. Also known as Langobards.
The Lonely Isle: see Tol Eressëa.
The Lonely Mountain passim; see also The Mountain. Originally The Black Mountain.
Longbeards (Indrafangs) 22, 77–81, 116, 431–2, 706. One of the two Kindreds of the Dwarves; Durin’s Folk.
The Long Lake 19, 435–6, 443, 548, and passim.
The Long Marshes 244, 294, 297, 370, 443, & passim.
Lord Dunsany (fantasy author): see Dunsany, Lord.
‘Lord Nann and the Korrigan’: see ‘The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun’.
The Lord of the Rings (LotR) xxxiii & passim.
The Lost Road (unfinished novel by JRRT) xxxiii, xxxix, 77, 147–8, 279, 282, 340, 403, 419, 447, 530–1, 686, 695, 699–700
Lost Tales: see The Book of Lost Tales. The Lost Tales period: 1917–1920.
LotR: see The Lord of the Rings.
Lovecraft, H. P. (‘The Dunwich Horror’) 64, 183
Lucky Number, Mr. 40, 44, 246, 297, 374, 522, 533, 747
—the role of luck in the story 97, 105, 127, 158–9, 201, 204, 230, 243–4, 246, 294–6, 308–9, 312–14, 353, 383, 387–8, 480, 504–5, 509–10, 522, 541, 578–9, 681, 800–1
Lúthien Tinúviel (daughter of Thingol, wife of Beren) 77, 83–4, 119, 123, 138, 143, 221–2, 410, 415, 430–1, 529, 696, 710–11, 787
—and Silmaril/Nauglafring 63, 413, 598
—golden-haired 407
—overthrows Necromancer 20, 73, 83, 123, 218, 716–17
—union with Beren 59, 122, 410, 415, 864
see also: ‘The Lay of Leithian’, ‘The Tale of Tinúviel’.
The Mabinogion (more properly, The Four Branches of the Mabinogi & other medieval Welsh tales) 57, 120, 147, 178–9, 182, 193–4, 259, 281, 356, 398, 402, 423–4, 426–7, 490, 494
—‘Culhwch and Olwen’ 194, 490, 494
—‘The Dream of Macsen Wledig’ 147
—‘The Dream of Rhonabwy’ 57, 147
—‘The Lady of the Fountain’ 178–9, 182
—‘Pwyll Prince of Dyfed’ (First Branch of the Mabinogi) 193–4, 259, 356, 398, 402–3, 426
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (Lays of Ancient Rome) 336, 344
MacDonald, George (author) xvii, 139–42, 148, 149, 224, 299, 463–4, 707, 856, 859
—as source for Tolkien’s goblins 140–42, 149, 299, 856
Mad Baggins: see Baggins, Bilbo.
Magol (invented language) 710, 787
Maiar 49–51, 59, 81–2, 139, 149, 269–70, 273, 329, 431, 451, 711, 838. See also Balrog, Boldog, Fays, Istari.
—Great Orcs as bred from Maiar: see Boldog.
—possible progenitors of dragons 542
Malory, Sir Thomas (author): see Arthurian legend.
Mandos (Vala) 81, 433
—the Halls of Mandos 81, 415, 433, 720, 722
The Man-in-the-Moon (wizard) 50, 188–9, 341, 528, 697
Manwë (Vala) 26, 78, 148, 226–7, 392
—the Eagles of Manwë or Messengers of Manwë 215, 220, 222–3, 274, 623
—the Halls of Manwë 26, 226
—the Son of Manwë 314: see Fionwë.
Map, Walter (author) 398–9, 421, 425–6
Marie de France (author) 356, 398, 401–2
Marion E. Wade Collection (Wheaton College): see Wade Center.
Marmaduke: see Brandybuck, Marmaduke.
Marq.: designates manuscript material in the Tolkien Collection at Marquette University Special Collections (Marquette Archives).
Marquette Tolkien Conferences 64, 766–7
Marquette University Special Collections (Marquette Archives) xi, xxv–xxvii, xxix–xxxi, xxxv, xli, 186, 188, 227, 357, 361, 694
—Marquette’s acquisition of Tolkien Manuscripts xxxi, 4–5, 6, 829
The Marvellous Land of Snergs: see Wyke-Smith, E. A.
Medwed/Beorn 229–43, 247–8, 293, 296, 366, 629–30, 679–80, 682, & passim.
—and Bothvar Bjarki 256–60, 281
—‘let bear be enchanted’ 231–2, 247, 293, 629
—name-change to ‘Beorn’ 293, 301, 366, 629, 679
—origin of name 275, 282
Meiggs, Russell 889
Melian (Maia, wife of Thingol, mother of Lúthien) 59, 138, 222, 410–16, 430–1, 599, 623. Earlier names include Wendelin 414–15; Gwendelin(g) 415, 431, 599; and Tindriel the Fay 415.
Melko 60, 62–63: earlier name for Melkor.
Melkor the Morgoth (Dark Lord, fallen Vala; earlier name: Melko) 12, 18, 20, 25, 76, 78, 81–3, 85–6, 100, 108, 122–3, 136–9, 144, 148–9, 215, 218, 220–2, 227, 274, 326–9, 340–1, 392, 433, 460, 486, 488, 492, 529–32, 542, 565, 573, 598, 605–6, 608–9, 709–11, 716–17. See also Children of Morgoth.
—a time between Dark Lords 530–1
Men (as race) 50, 205, 382, 436–41, 450–3, & passim.
—‘Mortal Men’ 71, 86, 122, 645, 654, 720
—use of term to mean nonhumans (dwarves, elves, wizards, &c) 50, 872–7
Menegroth (‘The Thousand Caves’, Thingol’s halls in Doriath) 137, 325, 409, 419, 430, 561
Merry (hobbit): see Brandybuck, Merry.
‘The Mewlips’ (ATB poem 9): see ‘Knocking at the Door’.
Michael’s Typescript xxv–xxvii: see Second Typescript.
Middle-earth passim.
—as our Earth 17–18, 43, & passim.
—identification of Bilbo’s world with that of the legendarium 17–22 & passim.
The Midgard Serpent (Miðgarðsormr) 531–2, 540
Midsummer/Midsummer’s Eve 31, 115–16, 201, 212, 214, 272, 481, 771, 818, 821, 826–30, 833–4, 836, 838
Milne, A. A. (author) 58, 707
Mîm the Fatherless (dwarven patriarch) 63, 78–9, 86, 597–9, 613, 617
—origin(s) of name: Mimir (Norse god) 86; Mime (Wagnerian character) 86.
Mills, Stella 881, 887–8
Mines of Moria: see Moria.
Mirkwood xi, 15, 19–21, 44, 242–4, 294, 303–16, 325–6, 333–4, 347–54 & passim.
—identification with Taur-na-Fuin 20–21, 219, 331, 333 & passim.
—origin of name 19
The Misty Mountains 111, 117, 126–9, 198 & passim.
Mitchell, Chris (archivist) xxxv, xxxvi
Mithrandir (Sindarin name for Gandalf the wizard) 49, 53, 783
Mithrellas (elf-maiden) 59, 864–5
Mitton, Mabel Tolkien (aunt of JRRT) 881, 884
Mole End 45
Mordor 62, 150, 272, 332, 418, 492, 530, 531, 564, 711
Morgoth: see Melkor the Morgoth.
Moria, the Mines of 73, 80–1, 105, 216, 262, 267, 326, 338, 340, 477–8, 670–1, 695, 705, 712, 751, 779–80, 804–5, 807, 810–11
—as ancestral home of Durin’s Folk 80, 432, 614–15, 676, 709, 754
—as a goblin-kingdom 80, 629, 709
—location of 80–1, 793, 804, 805
—origin of name 99, 564
Morris, Kenneth (The Book of Three Dragons) 526
Morris, William (author) xvii, 15, 18, 19, 25–6, 45, 55, 226, 451–2, 462, 484–5, 491–2, 500, 502–3, 521, 537, 543, 599, 611, 685, 838
—The Earthly Paradise 26 (as model for BLT frame narrative), 226
—The House of the Wolfings 19, 256, 451–2, 462
—The Roots of the Mountains 26, 451
—Sigurd the Volsung (The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs) 484–5, 491–2, 500, 503
—The Tale of Beowulf 543
—Völsunga Saga 452, 484–5, 491, 502–3, 521, 599, 611, 685
Mortal Men: see Men (as race).
Morwen (mother of Túrin) 62, 611–12. Earlier known as Mavwin, Morwin.
Mother Goose 61, 179, 865; see also nursery rhyme.
Mount Gram (goblin stronghold) 8, 39, 43, 712, 776, 804. Earlier called Gram Hill.
Mountain, Grace Tolkien (aunt of JRRT) 881, 883
The Mountain 9, 12, 40, 70–73 & passim: The Lonely Mountain.
The Mountain of the World 21, 26; see Taniquetil.
Mr. Badger 45, 58–59, 256
Mr. Bliss xxxix, 3–4, 6, 46, 63, 168, 254, 462, 694
Nain (dwarf)
—brother to Thrain 708
—origin of name 674, 706–7, 867–8, 870
‘The Nameless Isle’ (poem by JRRT) 266, 419, 675, 701; see also ‘The Song of Ælfwine’.
Nargothrond (elven kingdom) 325, 403, 408–9, 412, 417, 426–7, 432–4, 499, 529–30, 566, 597, 709
—origin of name 417, 566
The Narrator 43, 45, 55–58, 63–64, 119, 135–6, 166–7, 174, 186, 318, 325, 355, 359, 394–5, 454, 480, 522, [558], 780–1, 807, 811, 836
Naugladur (dwarvenking, lord of Nogrod) 78–9
—origin of name 79
Nauglafring (dwarven necklace) 37, 54–55, 63, 79, 411–13, 598, 601, 604, 608, 615–16
‘The Nauglafring: The Necklace of the Dwarves’ (BLT II) xxxiii, 76–9, 85, 125, 169, 325, 412, 414, 433, 596–8, 603, 609, 613, 615, 653
—summarized 63, 412
Nauglath (the dwarves of Nogrod) 77–9, 85–6, 431, 598
Nazgûl (Ringwraiths) 82–3, 175, 225, 271, 332, 530, 558, 711, 746, 853; Nazg (‘ring’) 787
Neave, Jane (aunt of JRRT) xxi, 45, 151, 152, 463, 881, 885–6
—owner of original ‘Bag-End’ 45
The Necromancer 20, 73, 81–4, 105, 139, 175, 218–19, 244, 253, 269, 274, 287, 294, 300, 326, 338–9, 346, 420, 529–31, 614, 688, 695, 696, 709, 710, 719, 733, 741, 747, 780, 806. Also known as Thû the Necromancer and Sauron.
—cast down by Beren & Lúthien 20, 73, 83, 123
—the Dungeons of the Necromancer 20, 73, 83, 105, 338, 346, 475, 780
—in ‘The Lay of Leithian’ 20, 82–3, 139, 175, 218, 253, 529, 710–11, 716–17
—‘the Master who ruled’ the Rings of Power 733, 741, 747
—Master of Wolves 82, 139, 218–19
—the Necromancer’s Tower 20, 73, 83, 219, 244, 253, 269, 274, 288–9, 420, 529, 716, 719
—see also: Tû the Fay, Túvo the Wizard, Thû the Necromancer, Sauron the Great.
Nesbit, E. (author) 526, 707
‘The New Hobbit’: see The Lord of the Rings.
Nibelungs (legendary Germanic tribe) 76–7, 175, 192, 503, 531, 596
The Nibelungenlied (medieval German romance) 77, 192, 500
Niggle: see ‘Leaf by Niggle’.
Njal’s Saga 59, 256, 281, 463
Noad, Charles xxxvi, 636
Nodens (lost British god) 427, 461, 564, 854; known in Irish as Nuada (of the Silver Hand) 427, 854. See also ‘The Name “Nodens”’ (philological essay by JRRT) 194, 278, 427, 564, 708.
Nogrod (dwarven city, home to the Nauglath) 77–81, 86, 412, 431–3
Noldor (second of the Three Kindreds of the Elves) 12, 25, 26, 561–2, 564, 566–7, 576, 597, 604–5, 721–2; originally known as Gnomes. See also Deep Elves.
—also known as Noldoli 25, 221, 324, 340, 406, 409, 604
Noldorin (language): earlier form of Sindarin 12, 15, 26–27, 52, 136–7, 275, 277, 289, 417, 424, 561, 564, 566–7, 610, 675, 710.
—relation to Gnomish and Sindarin 15, 26–27, 424, 562, 675
*Nori (dwarf, member of Thorin & Company)
—fights Dori 91, 99, 100
—guards outpost on Ravenhill 626
—largely silent 23, 809; speaks 33, 90, 213, 235
—origin of name 867, 869
—plays flute 36
Norse Mythology (Norse Myth, Icelandic Legend, Northern Myth, Norse Lore) 24, 26, 42, 76, 79, 86, 110, 150, 173, 188, 192, 281, 283, 424, 448, 464, 500, 503, 531–2, 538, 559, 596, 605, 615, 652, 706–7, 712, 715, 721, 722, 759–60, 866–71
Norse, Old: see Old Norse.
Northmoor Road (Oxford) xiv–xvi, xxii–xxiii, 746, 858
North Polar Bear xviii, xxxviii, 142, 168, 254–6, 280, 554, 630
The Notion Club Papers (HME IX) 65, 147–8, 214–15, 276, 531, 536, 660, 686, 740
Nuada, Nuada of the Silver Hand: see Nodens.
Númenor and Númenoreans 59, 83, 122, 139, 147, 177, 266, 274, 275–6, 288, 340, 410, 447–8, 530–1, 558, 576, 597, 783, 864–5, 877
Nursery Rhymes 61, 169–70, 188–91, 284, 864–5
Nymph (Goldberry) 59, 267; see also 723, 842, 844.
The Observer (English newspaper) xx–xxi, xxiv, 24, 86, 110, 140, 168, 245, 464, 636, 855–8, 859–60, 863
Odysseus (mythological hero) 151, 152, 520–1
OED (The Oxford English Dictionary) xxxiv, 47–8, 55, 56, 108, 164, 171, 246, 253, 321, 368, 394, 431, 481, 519, 783, 841, 849, 860–1, 865–6
OFS: see ‘On Fairy-Stories’.
Oi 11, 13: see Ori.
*Oin (dwarf, member of Thorin & Company)
—brother of Gloin 674
—fights with Gloin 99, 100, 796
—finds burglar-mark on Bilbo’s door 9, 40, 51
—group’s chief fire-maker (with Gloin) 98, 100, 129, 210, 568, 579, 586, 795–6
—helps acquire the boat 348
—largely silent 23, 807; speaks 33
—no instrument specified 36
—origin of name (Ai vs. Oin) 868, 870–1
Old English (language & literature) xxxvi, xl, 17, 50, 64, 143, 168, 170, 171, 188, 191, 193, 217, 261, 262, 275, 276–7, 282, 284–5, 291, 299, 321–2, 336, 428, 459, 528, 531–3, 535–6, 538, 544, 553, 554, 592, 605, 610, 623, 630, 651–2, 694, 699–700, 715, 719, 805, 852, 863, 875. See also Beowulf.
Old English (Tolkien’s works written in) 57, 65, 170, 188, 190–1, 604–5. See also ‘Éadig Béo Þu’, ‘For W. H. A.’, ‘Ides Ælfscýne’, ‘Annals of Beleriand’ (Earliest).
Old English runes: see The Futhark.
Middle English (language) 17, 77, 151, 189, 193, 263, 321, 336, 423, 425, 454, 516, 524, 554, 738, 848
Middle English (literature): see Chaucer, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo, &c.
Old Icelandic: see Old Norse.
Old Norse (language) 12, 15, 64, 79, 170, 217, 261, 277, 284, 285, 289, 336, 449, 465, 605–6, 615, 623, 673, 675, 710, 712, 757, 759–60, 784, 863, 866–71. Also known as Old Icelandic.
Old Norse (literature & mythology): see Norse Mythology.
Old Took: see Took, The Old.
Olórin (Gandalf the Wizard’s name in Valinor) 49, 785
‘On Fairy-Stories’ (OFS) xii–xiii, xxi, xxxiv, xl, 26, 56, 58, 103, 104, 140, 180, 215, 267, 286, 396, 397, 421, 491–2, 526–7, 536, 538–9, 600, 696, 707
Orcrist (Gandalf/Thorin’s sword) 97, 115, 122, 132–4, 136–7, 199, 295, 438, 533, 564, 629, 680, 799
Orcs: see Goblins.
*Ori (dwarf, member of Thorin & Company)
—alternate forms of his name Oi 11, 13; Ái, 13, 867–8, 871
—death of in Moria 591
—largely silent 23, 809; speaks 33, 235, 774
—origin of name 868, 870–1
—plays flute 36
Ossiriand 26, 406, 434, 653. See also Broseliand, Broceliand.
The Other Side (Valinor) 31, 52; Other Shores 62, 773.
Owls 91, 93, 238, 484, 494, 797–8, 807
The Owl and the Nightingale 740
Oxford English Dictionary: see OED.
Oxford Magazine 881, 888–9
Palisor 78, 81–2, 85, 406; see also The Battle of Palisor.
Parma Eldalamberon (journal) 27, 52–3, 62, 65, 76, 85, 150, 275, 328, 377, 418, 562, 564, 610, 617, 675, 706, 892;
see Gnomish Lexicon, Qenya Lexicon.
‘Pero & Podex’: see ‘The Root of the Boot’
Petty Dwarves 78, 598
‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’: see Browning, Robert.
Pietrusz, Jim xxxv, 460
Pippin (hobbit): see Took, Pippin.
Plato 48, 176–7, 178, 182, 183, 192–3.
See also Ring of Gyges.
Plimmers, Charlotte & Denis (interviewers) xv, xx, 59, 343, 524
Poe, Edgar (author) 183, 621, 651, 872
The Poetic Edda: see The Elder Edda.
A Policeman on a Bicycle 18, 91, 102, 812
Priestman, Judith (archivist) xxxv, 26, 428, 540
‘Progress in Bimble Town’ (poem by JRRT) 463–4, 888. See also Bimble Bay.
The Prose Edda (Snorri) 77, 79, 168, 281, 455, 465, 532, 615, 624, 673–4, 685, 706–7, 722, 758–9, 866, 868–71
Pryftan (original name for Smaug) xii, 3, 9–10, 15, 28, 40–1, 44, 75
‘The Pryftan Fragment’ (Phase I) xxiv, 3–13, & passim.
—missing pages xxiv, 14
Psamathos Psamathides (sand sorcerer) 697
‘Pwyll Prince of Dyfed’ (Mabinogion; The First Branch of the Mabinogi) 193–4, 259, 356, 398, 402–3, 426
Qenya (language; earlier form of Quenya): see Qenya Lexicon.
Qenya Lexicon 53, 85, 150, 261–2, 328, 610; also 62–3, 536.
Quenta or 1930 Quenta (HME IV) xxxiii & passim.
Quenta Silmarillion or 1937 Quenta Silmarillion (HME IV) xxxiii & passim.
Quenya (language): 12, 62, 275, 536, 566, & passim. See also Qenya.
‘The Quest of Erebor’ xxvii–xxviii, 61, 477, 531, 705–6, 731, 762, 765, 781, 785, 787, 806, 819
Radagast 268–80, 287–92, 697, 700
Ransome, Arthur (author) 49–50, 213, 395, 520, 749, 872–9
Rattenburg, R. M. 881, 886
Ravenhill 19, 583, 592–3, 618–20, 622, 624, 643, 672, 678
—first so named 618, 622
—projected role in the Siege of the Mountain 626
Ready, William (Marquette Librarian) 4–5
The Red Book of Hergest 193–4; see Mabinogion.
Red Gnomes xviii, 120, 142; see Gnomes.
Regin (brother of Fafnir, mentor of Sigurd) 86, 484–5, 500–3, 599, 623–4, 712, 867
Reginsmál 484; see also The Elder Edda.
Renault, Mary (author) 343–4
Reynard the Fox 195–6, 219, 636
Rev. Mother of Cherwell Edge (St Teresa Gale); see Cherwell Edge.
Rhys, Sir John 713, 853
The Ring (Bilbo’s Ring) 153, 159–63, 165, 167, 174–82, 198, 200, 294, 296, 309, 313–14, 337, 345, 363, 366, 376–7, 390, 496, 520–2, 659–61, 671, 691, 733, 737, 739, 811
—change in nature & powers between H & LotR 48, 51, 174–5, 177, 181–2, 197, 390, 520, 596, 606, 695, 741, 742, 746–7, 752, 811
Ring Cycle, The Ring of the Nibelungs: see Wagner, Richard
Ring of Gyges 48, 176–7, 183, 192
Rings of Invisibility 174–182, 192–6, & passim.
Ringwraiths: see Nazgûl.
Rivendell (Elrond’s House) 111–16, 687–90, & passim.
—name first applied to Elrond’s House 124
The River Running 18, 62, 70, 116, 420, 471, & passim. See also Running River.
Rodothlim (elven kingdom) 408–9, 432, 486, 499, 596–8, 600–1, 612–13
Rohald (Gandalf’s White Horse) 89, 111, 112, 114, 791, 793–4, 800, 802–3, 805, 811
Rohan: 492–3, 804–5; see Rohirrim.
Rohirrim (the Men of Rohan) 75, 453, 461, 532; earlier known as Eorlings 213, 277, 453, 564, 656.
Romans 19, 25, 77, 100, 150, 219, 278–80, 291–2, 336, 343, 451–2, 462, 538, 584, 724
‘The Root of the Boot’ (poem by JRRT) 57–8, 100–2, 107–8, 188. See also ‘Pero & Podex’, ‘The Stone Troll’.
Rota, Bertram (bookseller) 4–5
Roverandom 50, 168, 324, 334, 341, 492, 527–9, 542, 565–6, 623, 697
Rúmilian (Elvish script) 65
Runes 9–10, 18, 22–3, 40–1, 97, 104, 115–16, 122, 132, 136, 473, 602, 749–53, 757, 776–7, 785, 799, 800, 808, 811, 857, 874. See also Cirth, Futhark.
—Moon-runes 23, 116, 118–19, 456, 458, 478, 521, 749, 829, 838.
Running River 10, 71, 362, 391, 436, 460; see River Running.
Sackville-Baggins, Lobelia (hobbit) 47
Sackville-Baggins family: see Allibone Baggins.
The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise: see Heidreks Saga.
Sagas 79, 256, 281, 284, 424, 563, 628, 702; see Heidreks Saga, Njal’s Saga, Thidreks Saga, Völsunga Saga.
Salo, David (linguist) xxxvi, 27, 190–1, 289, 291–2, 393, 417, 418, 564, 567, 713, 803
Santoski, Taum (Tolkien scholar) xxv, xxx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxv, 6, 12, 107, 171–2, 225, 262, 392, 459, 761
Saruman 271–74, 288, 697, 700
Sauron the Great (Dark Lord) 20, 82, 139, 149–50, 215, 218, 253, 270, 272–5, 283, 288–9, 326, 338, 340, 346, 492, 529, 531–2, 564, 576, 676, 686, 697, 705, 710, 714, 717, 747, 765. See The Necromancer and Thû.
Scandalf the Beanpiper (wizard) xvi
Scatha the Worm (dragon) 75, 528, 589, 656
Scot, Reginald (The Discoverie of Witchcraft) 842–3, 847, 848, 852
Scott, Sir Walter xix, 421
Scull, Christina xxxiv–xxxvi, 25, 122, 149, 187, 447–8, 459, 538, 723. See also Hammond & Scull.
Scull & Hammond 334, 878, 880, 884–5, 888, 890–1
Scyld Scefing (Shield sheafing) 260, 283
‘The Sea-Bell’ (ATB15) 246, 427, 888
Sea-Elves 229–30, 315, 324, 405–7, 411, 429; also known as Sindar, Solosimpi, Teleri; see Sindar.
Second Typescript xxv–xxvii & passim.
‘Sellic Spell’ (reconstructed folk-tale by JRRT) 256, 281–2
The Seven Houses of the Dwarves 78
The Seven Dwarven Rings of Power 175–6, 338, 614
Shakespeare, William (playwright) 80, 108, 120, 170, 247, 256, 555, 759, 785, 843–4, 861
Shelob 60, 317–18, 322, 326–7, 331–3, 513, 745, 811
Shetland Pony 8, 17, 39, 43
Shetland Islands (Scotland) 17, 43, 109
The Shire: see The County Round.
‘A Short Ode to a Philologist’ (Auden) 65
The Sickle (constellation) 18
Siegfried (Wagner’s name for Sigurd) 86, 192, 503
Sigurd (dragonslayer) 75, 292, 373, 452, 465, 484–5, 491, 493, 500–3, 521, 523, 526, 538, 559–60, 570–1, 596, 599–600, 611–12, 623–4, 685, 708, 712, 870
Silm: see The Silmarillion.
The Silmarillion (1977 book) xxxiv & passim. Also referred to as the 1977 Silmarillion.
The Silmarillion tradition (Silmarillion texts, Silmarillion material): equals The Book of Lost Tales, The Lays of Beleriand, the 1926 ‘Sketch’, the 1930 Quenta, the 1937 Quenta Silmarillion, the ‘Annals’, and the Later QS.
Silmarils 53, 63, 218, 221, 412–13, 432, 596, 599, 601–9, 613, 616–17, 695, 723. See also Arkenstone, Gem of Girion.
Simons, Lester xxxviii
Simpson, Jacqueline 75, 485, 489, 540, 549
Sindar (third of the Three Kindreds of the Elves) 26, 406–7, 428, 434; see also Sea-Elves, Teleri.
—golden-haired Sindar 407–8
Sindarin (language) 12, 15, 22, 26–27, 53, 62, 253, 261–2, 289, 328, 377, 392–3, 418–20, 424, 536, 561–2, 564, 566–7, 610, 675, 713, 803
—orphaned (‘dialectical’) forms 275, 417, 418, 562
—relationship to Gnomish and Noldorin 15, 22, 26–27, 562, & passim.
—semantic richness 536
Sir Orfeo (Breton lay) 120, 147, 151–2, 356, 398–9, 401–4, 423–5, 517
‘The Sketch of the Mythology’ or 1926 Sketch (HME IV) xxxiii & passim.
Slavic (languages & mythology) 275–8, 280, 290–1
Smaug (Smaug the Magificent, Greatest of Calamities, King under the Mountain) xii, 72–5, 111, 222, 232, 362–4, 368–70, 372–4, 441, 472, 495–503, 504–24, 530–4, 542–3, 547–50, 554, 559–61, 563, 778–9, 788, & passim; see also Pryftan.
—first appearance of name (replaces Pryftan) 44, 72, 75
—pictured in FCL xviii
Smith, A. H. (student of JRRT) 100, 188, 263, 853, 881, 887
Smith, Arden (Tolkien linguist) xxxv, 65, 284–5, 291–2, 879, 900, 902, 905, 914
Smith, G. B. (T.C.B.S.) 125, 724, 727, 891
Smith, Thorne (author) 196
Smith Smithson 46, 422, 425, 686; see Smith of Wootton Major.
Smith of Wootton Major (SWM) xxxviii, 46, 74, 149, 186, 422, 425, 462, 686, 784, 787
‘Some of Tolkien’s Narrators’ (Thomas) 64
Snergs (The Marvellous Land of Snergs) see Wyke-Smith, E. A.
Snorri Sturluson (author) 77, 79, 168, 281, 455, 465, 615, 673–4, 685, 706, 722, 758–9, 866, 868–1; see The Prose Edda.
Solosimpi (the Shoreland Pipers) 119, 324, 406; see Sea-Elves, Sindar.
The Somme: see Battle of the Somme.
‘The Song of Ælfwine’ (HME V) 701
Songs for the Philologists 57–9, 65, 100–1, 108, 188, 263, 278, 284, 291, 402, 853, 887. See also ‘Bagme Bloma’, ‘Éadig Béo Þu’, ‘Ides Ælfscýne’ & ‘The Root of the Boot’.
The Sons of Fëanor 21, 406, 433, 599, 722
—Caranthir the Dark (insults Thingol) 406, 429
—Maglor the Minstrel 121, 125, 606, 608
—Maidros the Maimed (Maedhros) 121, 125, 222, 410, 606, 608
Spenser, Edmund (The Faerie Queene) 124, 179, 194, 484, 559, 565, 589, 855
Spiders xi, 230, 266, 294–302, 308–14, 315–16, 317–37, 340–6, 360, 374, 380, 397–8, 516, 521–2, 553, 715, 716, 811, 821, 823
—and gender pronouns 294, 298, 308, 312, 322
—Bilbo as spider-slayer 327 & passim.
—canopy (tree-top) butterfly-hunters 305, 318, 335, 343
—in Mirkwood halftone 21, 333–4
—spider or spider-like (‘a higher standard than God’) 331–3, 341–2
Sterne, Rev. Laurence (author) 55, 555
Stone-giants 59, 104, 128, 144–5, 234, 270. See Giants.
Stone-trolls 809, 812; see Trolls.
‘The Stone Troll’ (ATB 7): see ‘The Root of the Boot’.
The Story of Burnt Njal: see Njal’s Saga.
‘The Story of Kullervo’ (Kalevala) 26, 537–8
Strider: see Aragorn.
Suffield, John (grandfather of JRRT) 45
Swift, Jonathan (Gulliver’s Travels) 58; see Lilliputians.
SWM: see Smith of Wootton Major.
‘The Tale of the Sun and Moon’ (BLT I) 21, 324, 328, 698
‘The Tale of Tinúviel’ (BLT II) 53, 76–7, 119, 137, 149, 218, 327, 341, 409, 411, 421, 431, 529
‘The Tale of Years’ (LotR Appendix B) 50, 272, 289, 414, 417, 423, 492, 521, 531, 623, 654
Tam Lin 59, 421
Taniquetil (mountain) 21–22, 226, 428, 429. Also called The Mountain of the World 21.
The Mountain of the World 21, 26; see Taniquetil.
Taur-na-Fuin (the Forest of Night) 20–21, 83, 219, 326, 331, 333, 343, 487, 711, 716, 719
—identification with Mirkwood 20–21, 219, 326, 331, 333, 343, 719
Tea-time (four o’clock) xix, 32, 43, 90, 112, 212, 286–7, 681, 774, 779, 835
Teleri (the Sea-Elves) 324, 405–9, 428, 434; see Sindar.
Tengwar (Elven script) 65, 105, 107, 144, 602, 676, 879–80
Teutonic Mythology (Stallybrass): see Grimm, Jacob.
Text Notes xxviii & passim.
Thangorodrim (Morgoth’s fortress) 20, 53, 488, 560, 716
‘There and Back Again’ xxxi, 61, 152, 374, 375, 394, 692, 700, 723
Theseus (mythological hero) xi, 302, 335–6, 343–4, 521
Thidreks Saga 501
Thingol Greycloak (elvenking, father of Lúthien) 53–5, 59, 85, 137, 324–5, 406, 409–18, 421, 429–33, 486, 561, 566, 597–99, 608, 616–17, 653, 710–11. See also Tinwelint.
—replaced earlier Tinwelint 53, 85, 137, 325, 414, 431–2, 486, 597–99, 653 & passim.
‘This Desk’ xxxvii
Thomas, Paul xxxv, xxxvi, 64, 226
Thomas Rymer 59, 402, 421
*Thorin Oakenshield (dwarvenking, leader of Thorin & Company). Passim. Later name (Chapters X–XIX) for Gandalf the Dwarf. See also Gandalf the Dwarf.
—death of 533, 679–80, 703, 707, 712, 721–2, 723
—origin of name 674, 867–80
—replaced ‘Gandalf’ as chief dwarf’s name 11, 296, 444, & passim; see Gandalf the Dwarf.
—son of Thrain son of Thror 455–9, 464–7, & passim.
—succumbed to dragon-sickness 588, 590, 596, 600, 627, 635, 646, 648–9, 655–8, 664, 667–8, 673, 702; cf. also 781.
—survived Siege of the Mountain xi, 501–2, 570, 572
Thrain father of Thorin (dwarvenking) 84, 338–9 & passim.
—death in Necromancer’s dungeons 20, 73, 83, 105, 253, 326, 338–9, 477, 614, 709, 719, 780; contrast 629 (imprisoned in Moria)
—first appearance in text (replaces unnamed Gandalf’s father) 436, 444
—origin of name 455, 867, 869–70
—reverse genealogy (‘map tradition’): Thrain father of Thror father of Thorin 456–9, 466–7, 478, 488, 494, 516, 615
Three Kindreds of the Elves (Light-Elves, Deep-Elves & Sea-Elves) 315, 324, 405–8, 428–9. See also Noldor, Sindar, Vanyar.
Thror father of Thrain (dwarvenking) passim; see Gandalf’s Grandfather, Fimbulfambi.
—death in Moria 73, 80, 338, 705, 709, 712, 779–80
—first appearance in text (replaces Fimbulfambi, unnamed Gandalf’s grandfather, King under the Mountain) 436, 444
—origin of name 455, 867, 869
—text tradition: Thror father of Thrain father of Thorin (Oakenshield) 436, 438–9, 441, 456–9, 516
Thror’s Map: successor to Fimbulfambi’s Map
—Lost version of 22–23, 118
—Thror’s Map I (derives from Fimbulfambi’s Map) 18–19, 23, 118, 458, 466, 472, 476, 483, 488, 490, 521, 591–2, 594, 602; also known as ‘Thror’s Map: Copied by B. Baggins’.
—Thror’s Map II (= map in published book) 23, 119, 317, 451, 458, 476, 489–90, 562, 592, 594, 752–4, 757, 777, 779–80, 786, 790
The Thrush 22–3, 116, 363, 475–6, 485, 489–90, 494, 513, 525, 549–50, 569, 618–24, 629, 642–3, & passim.
—identified as a song thrush 490, 494
—last mention in the story 490
Thrym Thistlebeard 86, 756–60, 786
Þrymsqviða 615, 758–9; see also Elder Edda.
Thû the Necromancer 20, 50, 82–3, 105, 123, 139, 218, 326, 529, 710–11, 716–17, 719
See also The Necromancer and Sauron.
—as vampire bat 20, 83, 716
Tinúviel: byname for Lúthien.
Tinwelint (elvenking; earlier name for Thingol) 53–5, 63, 78, 85, 137, 169, 325, 411, 414–16, 431–3, 486, 597–99, 609, 612–13, 615–17, 653. See Thingol Greycloak.
—replaced earlier Linwë Tinto 85, 411; replaced in turn by Thingol.
Tir na nOg 419, 434
Toad Hall 45–6, 58–9, 256, 281
Toad of Toad Hall (Milne) 58
Tobacco (bacca, baccy, pipeweed, weed) 30, 43, 89, 153, 163, 693, 770, 783–4, 791
—‘At the Tobacconist’ (audio recording by JRRT) 43
—pipes 30, 35–6, 89, 129, 153, 239, 770, 783, 791
—smoke-rings 30 (Bilbo’s), 35 (Dwalin’s), 36 (Bladorthin’s), 54 (magic), 129, 240, 310, 770, 776
Tol Eressëa (the Lonely Isle) 17, 52, 100, 138, 419, 428–9, 493, 701; also known as The Lonely Isle 17, 52, 266, 419; Luthany 17; the Nameless Isle 266, 419, 701; the Perilous Isle 52.
—as the island of Great Britain 17, 52, 100, 493
Tolkien in Oxford (BBC Television programme) xiv
Tolkien, Adam (grandson of JRRT) 879
Tolkien, Baillie (daughter-in-law of JRRT) xxxiv
Tolkien Children: see Tolkien, Christopher; Tolkien, John; Tolkien, Michael; & Tolkien, Priscilla.
—Books (and themes) Popular with Tolkien’s Children xviii (FCL); 47, 59–60 (Wyke-Smith’s Snergs); 254, 280 (bears); 268, 286 (Lofting’s Dolittle series); 545 (Barfield’s Silver Trumpet); 874, 879
(Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons series).
—family apocrypha xvi, xxxviii, 168
—as original audience for H 57, 102, 254, & passim.
Tolkien, Christopher (youngest son of JRRT) xxxii–xxxiv, xxxv, & passim.
Tolkien, Edith Bratt (wife of JRRT) xxii, xxxvii, 26
Tolkien, Fr. John (eldest son of JRRT) xvi, xvii, xix, xxxviii, 57, 102, 168, 254, 492, 634, 879
—recalls Winter Reads xiv
—recounts origins of H xvi, xxxviii
Tolkien, J. R. R. passim.
Tolkien, Mabel Suffield (mother of JRRT) 525, 539–40
Tolkien, Michael (middle son of JRRT) xv–xvii, xix, xxii, xxvi, xxxviii, xli, 57, 102, 125, 146, 151, 168, 212, 216, 254, 280, 355, 461, 634, 726, 879
—recounts origins of The Hobbit xv–xvii, xix, xxii, xxxviii
—creates Second Typescript xxvi, xli, 355, 726
Tolkien, Priscilla (daughter of JRRT) xvii, xxxviii, 280
Tolkien’s Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth 27, 64
Tolkien Society xvi, xxxvi, xxxviii
Tomatoes 34, 43, 784
Tombigbee River (Alabama) 60
Tom Bombadil: see Bombadil.
Took, Belladonna (Bilbo’s mother): see Baggins, Belladonna.
Took, Bullroarer (Bilbo’s great-great-great uncle) xii, 8–9, 15, 39–40, 712, 776
Took, The Old (Bilbo’s grandfather) 8, 29, 31, 39, 61, 201, 585, 769–71, 776
Took, Pippin (Bilbo’s third cousin) 60
Tooks & Tookishness 7, 14, 18, 29, 37, 61, 203, 212, 505, 539, 683, 691, 700, 769–70, 771, 782–3, 857
—rumours of exotic intermarriage 29, 46, 340, 769, 782–3
—Took vs. Baggins 8–9, 14, 29, 38, 39, 46, 366, 505, 585, 683, 771–2, & passim.
Translations from the Elvish (book by Bilbo) 62
‘The Tree’ xxi. Original name for ‘Leaf by Niggle’.
Tree & Leaf xxi, xxxiv, xl, 152, 421; see also ‘On Fairy-Stories’, ‘Leaf by Niggle’.
Treebeard: see Fangorn.
Trolls xvi, 82–104, 109–10, 136, 138, 148–51, 522, 629, 688, 698, 714, 750, 757, 793, 797–802, 805–808, 810–15, 817, 821, 825–35, 844, 848, 856, 859, 864, 875 & passim.
—illustrations of 186, 260, 449, 565–6
—turn-to-stone motif 96, 102–4, 109–10, 148, 799, 807
The Troll-key (Dwarf-key) 97, 104–5, 115, 124, 243–4, 293, 297, 346, 363, 366, 376, 476, 482–3, 584, 629, 780, 787–8
Trotter the hobbit (Peregrin Boffin) 16
Trotter the human: see Aragorn.
Tuatha de Danaan 120, 124, 403, 419, 424, 426–7, 448, 589, 713
Tû the Fay 50, 81–2. See also Túvo the Wizard and Thû the Necromancer.
Tuor (husband of Idril) 59, 122, 230, 325, 529, 557, 686, 864
‘Turambar and the Foalókë’ (BLT II) xxxiii, 26, 62, 76, 137, 149, 373, 408, 421, 432, 485–6, 502–3, 520, 523, 537, 597, 613, 709
Túrin the Hapless (dragon-slayer) 21, 26, 76, 333, 408, 410, 417–19, 421, 432, 485–6, 500, 520, 523, 529, 537, 558, 560, 596–7, 612, 624, & passim.
Túvo the Wizard (Tolkien’s first wizard) 50, 81. See also Tû the Fay, Thû the Necromancer.
Twain, Mark 148, 837, 849
The Twilight People 81–2: the Elves of Palisor.
The Two Kindreds (Men and Elves) 50, 875, 877
The Two Trees of Valinor 81, 221, 324, 327–9, 431, 604, 607
—The Golden Tree 62, 329
Typescript for Printer xxv–xxvi; see First Typescript
Tyrfing (cursed sword) 42, 706
Ulmo (Vala) 148, 274, 623
Undying Land(s) 271, 429, 701
Unfinished Tales (UT) xxvii, xxxiv, & passim.
Ungoliant (the Spider of Night) 326–33, 337, 392; see also Children of Ungoliant.
Unwin Brothers (original printers of The Hobbit and LotR) xxvi, xli, 745, 748, 750, 751, 754
Unwin, Rayner xxxv, 194, 561, 693, 761
Unwin, Stanley xvii, xx–xxi, xxxiii, xxxix–xl, 60, 85–6, 152, 185, 283, 540, 613–14, 636, 694, 702, 758, 760, 761, 863, 872–3, 876, 879
Úrin: earlier form of the name Húrin, father of Túrin.
Urwendi the Sun-maiden (Maia) 62, 329, 340–1
Uttermost West (Valinor) 17
Úvanimor (monsters) 85, 138, 143–4
Vafthrúthnismál 168–9, 174, 188, 522–3; see also Elder Edda.
The Valar 64, 81, 86, 122, 221, 226–7, 269, 273–4, 328, 422, 429, 433. Also called ‘The Gods’ 173, 226, 420, 528, 541, 565, 604, 608.
See also Aulë, Elbereth, Mandos, Manwë, Ulmo.
Valinor 25–6, 52, 62, 81, 122, 150, 172, 222, 324, 327–30, 406, 409–11, 413–16, 428–29, 431, 433, 567, 604, 720. See also The Other Side, Uttermost West, Undying Lands.
Vampire: see Bats.
Vanyar (first of the Three Kindreds of the Elves) 315, 324, 405–7, 428–30; also known as Light-elves.
Velikovsky, Immanuel 18
Villemarque, Hersart de la (Barsaz Breiz) 425
Vinyar Tengwar (journal) 63
Völsunga Saga 77, 86, 192, 465, 484, 491, 493, 500–3, 517, 521, 526, 531, 593, 600, 611–12, 624, 685
Völundarkviða 528, 615
Völuspá 13, 23–24, 42, 444, 455, 465, 532, 673–4, 706, 757, 866–71. See also Dvergatal, The Elder Edda.
Wade (folklore hero) 528
Wade Center xxxv–xxxvi, xxxvii
Wagner, Richard (Ring Cycle) 77, 86, 192, 503, 685
‘The Waking of Angantyr’ (Old Norse poem) 42. See also Heidreks Saga.
Wargs 51–2, 139, 204–9, 213, 215–19, 223–6, 236, 241, 242, 252, 366, 501, 572, 576, 584, 629, 670–2, 680, 713–16, 718–19, 821
—as Children of Morgoth 218
—origin of name 217, 225, 282
The Water 7, 16, 29–30, 36, 38, 45–6, 110, 531, 539, 614, 769–71, 814, 818
Wayland the Smith 528, 615
Welsh Language 193, 262, 289, 418, 424, 713
Welsh Myth: see The Mabinogion.
West, Richard xxxv, xxxvi, 225, 281, 565
Wheaton College: see Wade Center.
White, T. H. (author) 58, 102, 226
The White Book of Rhydderch 193; see Mabinogion.
Wild Wire Worms of the Chinese (dragons) 9, 40, 43
The Wild Wood 9, 15, 19–21, 40, 487–8. Original name for Mirkwood.
Wilderland (Rhovanion) 21, 248, 289, 453.
—contrasted with Lands Over West 248.
—the Wilderland Map(s) 18–19, 251, 297–8, 317, 334, 355, 420, 442, 451, 489, 562, 653, 675–6, 791, 822–3
Williams, Charles (Inkling) xxxix, 26, 636
The Wind in the Willows: see Grahame, Kenneth.
‘Winter Reads’ xv–xvi, xix, 57, 545, 633–4
Withered Heath 9, 20, 40, 44, 238, 367, 483, 487–9, 786; see also Dor-na-Fauglith.
The Wizard-King 81: Tû.
Wizard’s Isle 82: Thû’s stronghold.
Wizards xvi, 49–50, 81–2, 127, 269–70, 688, 691, 697, 700, 772, 844, 848, 877. See also Artaxerxes, Bladorthin, The Blue Wizards, Father Christmas, Gandalf the Wizard, The Man in the Moon, Radagast, Saruman, Scandalf the Beanpiper, Thû, Túvo, et al.
—as race 49–50, 875, 877; see also Istari.
Wodehouse, P. G. (Bertie Wooster & Jeeves stories) 47, 60
Wolf-riders 76, 140, 142, 204, 670–2; see also Wargs.
Wood-elves: see Elves.
Wraiths: see Nazgûl.
Wrenn, Charles (Inkling) xl, 65, 636, 694, 881–2, 884–5
Wright, Joseph (mentor, philologist) 56, 109, 262–5, 278, 285, 422, 615, 848, 853
Wright, Mary (philologist, wife of prec.) 263, 285, 422
Wyke-Smith, E. A. (author)
—The Marvellous Land of Snergs xl, 47, 59–60, 150
Wynne, Pat (Tolkien linguist) 853
Yates, Jessica xxxv, 636
Yavanna (Vala) 52–3, 148, 273, 274; also known as Bladorwen 52–3, Palúrien 52, & Mother Earth 53.
Younger Edda: see The Prose Edda.
Zimmerman, Morton Grady (scriptwriter) 60, 227