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...It is a long tale...
Several locations have been given names after fictional locations and characters of Tolkien's Middle-earth and wider Legendarium.
Cities
Geldrop
Geldrop is a Dutch town with a neighbourhood whose streets are all related to Tolkien and his Legendarium.[1]
Jacksonville
Jacksonville is a city in Florida that has a neighbourhood with street names based on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.[2]
Geographical features
Mountains
Seamounts
Astronomy
Titan
Titan is one of Saturn's moons. Its mountains (Montes) are named after mountains in Arda and hills (colles) after characters.[13]
The named montes of Titan are: Angmar Montes, Dolmed Montes, Doom Mons, Echoriat Montes, Erebor Mons, Gram Montes, Irensaga Montes, Merlock Montes, Mindolluin Montes, Misty Montes, Mithrim Montes, Rerir Montes, Taniquetil Montes.
Asteroids
Other
- Kuiper Belt object 385446 Manwë and its moon Thorondor.[17]
- Trans-Neptunian object 174567 Varda and its moon Ilmarë.[18]
- A series of regions of Pluto called Balrog Macula.[19]
- The Eye of Sauron is a nickname given to many objects due to a similar appearance including, the nebulae M 1-42,[20] Helix Nebula,[21] star system HR 4796A,[22] and Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151.[23]
- Earendel, a star in the constellation of Cetus. Even though it is an Anglo-Saxon name that predates Tolkien, the researches involved in its discovery were fans of his works and chose the name for that reason.[24][note 1]
See also
Notes
- ↑ Earendel is an Old English name referring to the morning star. It was borrowed verbatim by Tolkien for his earliest legendarium (The Book of Lost Tales) but envisioned as Qenya; it changed to Earendil in the mid-1940s.
References
- ↑ . "Suburb Designs Its Neighborhood around J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth". BigThing.com. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ . "10 Jax neighborhoods with thematic street names". TheJaxsonMag.com. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ "Mount Shadowfax". www2.gov.bc.ca/. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ "Mount Gandalf". www2.gov.bc.ca/. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ "Mount Aragorn". www2.gov.bc.ca/. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ "Eriador Seamount". MarineRegions.org. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ "Rohan Seamount". MarineRegions.org. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ "Gondor Seamount". MarineRegions.org. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 . "Eye of Sauron' volcano and other deep-sea structures discovered in underwater 'Mordor". livescience.com. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ "Fangorn Bank". MarineRegions.org. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ "Edoras Bank". MarineRegions.org. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ "Isengard Ridge". MarineRegions.org. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ . "The Unexpected Journey from Tolkien to Titan". airandspace.si.edu. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ . "(2991) Bilbo = 1975 JC = 1979 SY3 = 1982 HV = 1982 KB2". MinorPlanetCenter.net. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(2675) Tolkien". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (2675) Tolkien. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 219. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.
- ↑ . "(378214) Sauron = 2007 AP11". MinorPlanetCenter.net. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ "385446 Manwe". academic-accelerator.com. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ . "(174567) Varda = 2003 MW12". MinorPlanetCenter.net. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ . "The New, Nerdy Mythology of Pluto's Place Names". Wired.com. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ "The Eye Of Sauron Is Nebula ESO 456-67". tgdaily.com. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ . "The Eye of Sauron (AKA NGC7293)". SkyandTelescope.org. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ . "Eye of Sauron star spotted by planet-hunting camera". NewScientist.com. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ "NGC 4151: An Active Black Hole in the "Eye of Sauron"". chandra.Harvard.edu. Retrieved 4 February 2024
- ↑ Meet Earendel: Hubble telescope's most distant star discovery gets a Tolkien-inspired name, space.com (accessed 6 February 2024)