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The Tolkien family is an English family of German descent whose best-known member is J. R. R. Tolkien, Oxford academic and author of the fantasy books The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.
- Germany, England
- Kreuzburg, East Prussia
The Tolkien family originated in the East Prussian town of Kreuzburg near Königsberg, which had been founded during the medieval German eastward expansion, where his earliest-known paternal ancestor Michel Tolkien was born around 1620.
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Jan 30, 2023 · Royd Allan Reuel Tolkien (b. 16 July 1969) is a great-grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien, the grandchild of Tolkien's second son, Michael.
Jan 20, 2024 · The Tolkien Family is a family of Saxon descent, arriving in England six generations before J.R.R. Tolkien.
Royd Tolkien (b. July 16, 1969) is the great-grandson of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. He portrayed a Ranger of Gondor named Golasgil in an uncredited role in Peter Jackson's The Return of the King, where he is seen handing out weapons to the other soldiers before the orcs' assault on Osgiliath.
R. Tolkien included multiple family trees in both The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion; they are variously for Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, and Men . The family trees gave Tolkien, a philologist, a way of exploring and developing the etymologies and relationships of the names of his characters.
The Tolkien family. As far as is known, most of Tolkien's paternal ancestors were craftsmen. The Tolkien family had its roots in Saxony , but had been living in England since the eighteenth century, becoming "quickly and intensely English".
