These are some of the more important names from Tolkien's MiddleEarth.


There are many that I have presented for you, and even more that I was forced to leave out due to space and time concerns. After each name is a brief history about them, in hopes that it will further your enjoyment of Tolkien's Magical Realm.

ADAN, EDAIN:
"father-of-Man" The Elves' name, given in friendship, for those among Men who came across the Blue Mountains into Beleriand during the First Age, and fought alongside the Elves as allies in their long wars against Morgoth the Enemy.
Like the Elves, the Edain were of Three Kindreds, or Houses, led during the wars by Hu'rin, Tu'rin and Hador the Goldenhaired. Beren and his father Barahir were of the First House; the Second House (of Tu'rin) had much to do with Dwarves; while the Third House(of Hador) was closest in friendship with the Eldar and became most renowned in battle.
At the ending of the First Age, in return for their sacrifices in the wars, the Edain were granted land "West-over-Sea" - the Isle of Elenna, most westerly of mortal lands. Using Earendil's Star as their beacon, the greater part of them then set out for their future home. They named their new realm Nu'menor.
The Elves then called this people Du'n-edain, "Men-of-the-West". And the Nu'menoreans began to grow more kingly and proud, and more like to the Eldar themselves, with whom they lived in friendship for the greater part of the Second Age; for they had also been rewarded with longer life than other Men, though not with that immortality they always desired. Yet Nu'menor withered and fell at last, and few survived: only the Faithful, led back to MiddleEarth by Elendil the Tall. Like the Elves, they were a dwindling people.
See also: MEN; NU'MENOR

ARAGORN II:

ARATHORN II:
ARWEN EVENSTAR:

AULE THE SMITH:

BALIN SON OF FUNDIN:

BALROG:

BARLINMAN BUTTERBUR:

BARROW-WIGHTS:

BEORN:

BEREN:

BIFUR, BOFUR, BOMBUR:

BILBO BAGGINS:

BILL (THE PONY):

BLACK CAPTAIN:

BLACK NUMENOREANS:

BLACK RIDERS:

BOMBUR:

BOROMIR:
From 2477-89 Third Age, the eleventh Ruling Steward of Gondor, and one of its mightiest Captains. It was he who defeated the first incursions into Ithilien of the race of uruks, black Mordor-orcs of great strength. Boromir drove them out after much fighting but not before the ancient city of Osgiliath was finally destroyed and its bridge broken. Boromir himself received a Morgul-wound in that war which shortened his life: he died twelve years after his father, Denethor I.
Note: Boromir of the Fellowship of the Ring was named after this great warrior. The name is of mixed Quenya and Sindarin form, and translates as "Jewel-of-War".

BOROMIR:
It was a sign