{"id":9720,"date":"2023-07-30T21:06:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T20:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9720"},"modified":"2023-08-26T10:07:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T09:07:33","slug":"literature-the-origin-of-the-name-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9720","title":{"rendered":"LiTERATURE: The Origin of the Name Tolkien"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having recently posted to FB (and on here) about re-reading Tolkien\u2019s <em>Hobbit<\/em> and <em>Lord of the Rings,<\/em> I suddenly had a desire to learn the origin of the Tolkien family name. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theneweuropean.co.uk\/where-did-jrr-tolkeins-surname-come-from\/\">this article<\/a>, amongst many other suggestions. And it seems quite plausible. But another source suggested a different meaning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What these two differing explanations concurred in was a \u2018Low Prussian\u2019 origin, which also sits well with the fact that a Tolkien ancestor moving from Danzig to England in the 18th century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also in that neck of the woods, there is the Polish town of Tolkiny:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"524\" height=\"692\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0306.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9727\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0306.jpg 524w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0306-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot from Polish Wiki\u2019!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0305.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9728\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0305.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0305-300x221.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0305-768x566.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Church of St. MB of Ostrobramska, XIV-XV c.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having recently posted to FB (and on here) about re-reading Tolkien\u2019s Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, I suddenly had a desire to learn the origin of the Tolkien family name. I found this article, amongst many other suggestions. And it seems quite plausible. But another source suggested a different meaning. What these two differing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9720\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LiTERATURE: The Origin of the Name Tolkien&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2wM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9730,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720\/revisions\/9730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}