Enya has performed several songs relating to J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, including 1991's " Lothlórien " ( instrumental ), and 2001's " May It Be " ( sung in English and Quenya ), and " Aníron " ( in Sindarin )— the latter two, which she composed, appearing in Peter Jackson's movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and its soundtrack album.

Tolkien's writing has such popularity that in the 1960s and afterwards, elves speaking an elvish language similar to those in Tolkien's novels ( like Quenya, and Sindarin ) became staple non-human characters in high fantasy works and in fantasy role-playing games.

Robert Jordan has stated that he consciously intended the early chapters of The Eye of the World to evoke the Shire of Middle-earth in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

The Gimli-Legolas relationship has been seen as Tolkien's reply toward " Gentile anti-Semitism and Jewish exclusiveness ".

Tolkien's legend of Eärendil has elements resembling the medieval Celtic Immram legends or the Christian legend of St. Brendan the Navigator.

In real-world terms, Tolkien's inspiration for the word Arda may be certain cognates of the English word " Earth " in the other Germanic languages, specifically the Afrikaans " Aarde " which has equivalent pronunciation and meaning, and unsurprising in use given Tolkien's South African origins.

Like most of the legendarium's characters, Varda has a different name in each of Tolkien's invented languages.

The change of name is due to the fact that the name Gildor has the suffix ' dor ', which in Tolkien's Elven languages is a masculine suffix used only in the names of male Elves.

A species of Elachista moths, Elachista gildorella, has been named after Gildor Inglorion by Finnish entomologist Lauri Kaila along with a number of other species that were given names inspired by Tolkien's characters.

Tolkien's description of the physical layout of the city of Minas Tirith itself is followed relatively faithfully in Peter Jackson's film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, ( the city also has a cameo in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, when Gandalf goes there to discern the identity of Bilbo's ring, and it also can be seen in the distance for a few seconds when Faramir takes Frodo, Sam, and Gollum to Osgiliath in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ) Jackson's version interprets the top of the rock as flattened and paved, and also the location for the coronation of Aragorn.

The name " Uruk-hai " has the element Uruk, which is a Black Speech word related to Orc, related to the word " Urko " in Tolkien's invented language of Quenya.

The One Ring from J. R. R. Tolkien's novel, The Lord of the Rings has been labeled a plot device, since the quest to destroy it drives the entire plot of the novel.

Planning permission has been acquired for the erection on Moseley Green of a high statue of Treebeard, an Ent from The Lord of the Rings, made by Tolkien's great-nephew, Tim Tolkien.

The helmet has a similar effect on those who possess it to J. R. R. Tolkien's One Ring or Der Ring des Nibelungen, where the reason also lies in one's mind rather than any magical curse.

He has received international attention from playing Meriadoc Brandybuck in Peter Jackson's adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and for his role as Charlie Pace on the television show Lost.

Väinämöinen has been identified as a source for Gandalf, the wizard in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings.

This mistaken reversal in size on Tolkien's part has generally been followed in other fictional hobgoblins.

Other features quickly followed and, in 1981, he co-wrote ( with Michael Bakewell ) BBC Radio 4's adaptation of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and has also adapted C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia and Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan and Gormenghast for Radio 4, for which he received a Sony Radio Award in 1985.

This book has been valued even by those uninterested in the music, since it helps Tolkien's readers to better understand the cultures of the various mythological beings presented in Middle-earth, and helps linguists analyse Tolkien's poetry.

Guy Gavriel Kay's fictional land Tigana has been seen as having many references to Tolkien's Middle-earth.

He is the protagonist and titular character of The Hobbit and a supporting character in The Lord of the Rings, two of the most well-known of J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy writings.

It is also one of perhaps only two or three of Tolkien's languages known to possess noun classes, which roughly correspond to four grammatical genders.

In fact Tolkien's The Hobbit ( 1937 ) features an incredible number of similarities beyond those mere aspects above, for instance, the two swords Orcrist and Glamdring correspond to the story, as well, Bilbo's Mithril shirt also stands in for the chain mail shirt of gold.

Eldacar is the name of two fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's universe of Middle-earth:

The book contains 16 poems, only two of which deal with Tom Bombadil, a character who is most famous for his encounter with Frodo Baggins in The Fellowship of the Ring ( the first volume in Tolkien's best-selling The Lord of the Rings ).

* Pauline Baynes, original illustrator for the Narnia books and maps ; she also illustrated some of J. R. R. Tolkien's books, and drew two poster maps of Middle-earth ( but not the ones published in the books ).

The Children of Ilúvatar is the name given to the two races of Elves and Men in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium because they were created by Ilúvatar, the One God, without the help of the Ainur.

# The Early History of the Legend — an introduction to the following two pieces, detailing how Tolkien's correspondence with C. S. Lewis led to the writing of The Lost Road.

Eagles named " Gwaihir " and " Landroval " ( or, in even earlier texts, " Gwaewar " and " Lhandroval ") also appear in J. R. R. Tolkien's manuscripts of The Silmarillion, where they are stated to have been the two vassals of Thorondor who helped to bear Beren and Lúthien from Angband, several thousand years before the War of the Ring.

The eagle-shaped clouds that appeared in Númenor were one of Tolkien's recurring associations with the downfall of the island, just like the images of a sloping mountain and of an overwhelming wave ; they were also introduced by him into two abandoned time-travel stories, The Lost Road and The Notion Club Papers.

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, two Kings of Gondor had the name Eärnil:

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Arathorn ( Lord-eagle ) is the name of two Chieftains of the Dúnedain:

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Arahad is the name of two Chieftains of the Dúnedain:

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Arveleg is the name of two Kings of Arthedain:

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Argeleb ( Lord of Silver ) is the name of two Kings of Arthedain:

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Atanatar (" Father of fathers ") is the title of two Kings of Gondor:

The Book of Lost Tales is the title of a collection of early stories by J. R. R. Tolkien, and of the first two volumes of Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume series The History of Middle-earth, in which he presents and analyses the manuscripts of those stories, which were the earliest form of the complex fictional myths that would eventually comprise The Silmarillion.

In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the Rangers were two secretive, independent groups organized by the Dúnedain of the North ( Arnor ) and South ( Gondor ) in the Third Age.

Among the scripts " encoded " in the CSUR, Shavian and Deseret were eventually formally adopted into Unicode ; two other conscripts under consideration are Tolkien's scripts of Tengwar and Cirth.

Throughout the next two decades, the term fantasy became synonymous with the general aspects of Tolkien's work: multiple races including dwarves and elves, a quest to destroy a magical artifact, and an evil that seeks to control the world.

Some people were inspired to compose poems in Quenya or Sindarin, the two most developed of Tolkien's created languages.

Middle-earth Enterprises, formerly known as Tolkien Enterprises, is a trading name for a division of the Saul Zaentz Company ( SZC ) based in Berkeley, California which owns the worldwide exclusive rights to certain elements of J. R. R. Tolkien's two most famous literary works ; The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.