List of things named after J. R. R. Tolkien and his works

A. The black circle at the centre is the telescope's coronagraph. • The asteroids 2991 Bilbo and 2675 Tolkien were both discovered and named in 1982. • The Kuiper belt object 385446 Manwë and its moon Thorondor were discovered in 2003. • Earendel, the most-distant known star. • The nickname "Eye of Sauron" has been given to multiple eye-like objects, namely the planetary nebulae M 1-42 and Helix Nebula, the star system HR 4796A, the intermediate spiral Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151 and the image of a cosmic jet - directed towards Earth - from blazar PKS 1424+240. • The Mars-crossing asteroid 378214 Sauron was discovered in 2007. • The trans-Neptunian object 174567 Varda and its moon Ilmarë were discovered in 2006 and 2011 (respectively) and named in 2014. Geography of Titan By convention, certain classes of features on Saturn's moon Titan are named after elements from Middle-earth. Colles (small hills or knobs) are named for characters, while montes (mountains) are named for mountains of Middle-earth. Colles Montes Other planetary bodies Mercury A crater adjacent the planet's north pole, Tolkien, is named after the author. Pluto system Various maculae on Pluto and Charon are unofficially named after subjects in Middle Earth. ==Individuals==

• Troels Kløvedal (born Troels Beha Erichsen) changed his last name to Danish for Rivendell after joining the Svanemølle-collective. • Gurli Marie Kløvedal, Danish author and journalist and daughter of Troels Kløvedal • Pernille Kløvedal Nørgaard, Danish actor • Ebbe Kløvedal Reich, Danish author and political commentator • Nadia Kløvedal Reich, Danish author and daughter of Ebbe Kløvedal • Mogens Kløvedal Pedersen, Danish screen writer ==Companies and other entities==

• Iron Crown Enterprises produces role playing, board, miniature, and collectible card games since 1980. Many of ICE's better-known products were related to Tolkien's world of Middle-earth. It was named after the crown worn by Morgoth. • Middle-earth Enterprises, formerly known as Tolkien Enterprises, is a trading name for a division of The Saul Zaentz Company, located in Berkeley, California. The company 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. These elements include the titles of the works, the names of characters contained within as well as the names of places, objects and events within them, and certain short phrases and sayings from the works. • Palantir Technologies is a private American software and services company, specializing in data analysis. Named after the crystal balls from Tolkien's legendarium, Palantir's original clients were federal agencies of the United States Intelligence Community like CIA and NSA. • Lembas Capital is a San Francisco-based investment firm named after the Elven waybread that appears in The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. The company invests in both public equity and private equity. • Valar Ventures, named after the Valar, is a US-based venture capital fund founded by Andrew McCormack. • The Tolkien Estate is the legal body which manages the property of J. R. R. Tolkien, including the copyright in his works. The individual copyrights have for the most part been assigned by the Estate to subsidiary entities such as the J. R. R. Tolkien Discretionary Settlement and The Tolkien Trust. • Anduril Industries, named after Aragorn' sword, is an American defense technology company that specializes in autonomous systems • Mithril, a decentralized social media platform • The Rivendell Winery operated from 1987 to December 2008 in New York's Hudson River Valley; in 2003 Rivendell's 2003 Dry Riesling captured the Governor's Cup at the 19th annual New York Wine and Food Classic. • ByWater Solutions is an opensource software company named after the village in the Shire. • Rivendell Bicycle Works, a steel frame bicycle producer in Walnut Creek, California, U.S. • Silmarils, named for the 3 jewels, was a French gaming company known for the Ishar trilogy. • A mining company called Durin Drilling is named about the Dwarven line of kings named Dúrin. • Rivendell School is a private Christian school in Arlington, Virginia. • Lorien Novalis School is a private school in Sydney. ==Writing==

• Athelas typeface is named after the healing plant from Lord of the Rings. • The Balrog Awards were given to recognized authors of speculative fiction, named after the race of demons occurring throughout the legendarium. • The Gandalf Award honored achievement in fantasy literature and were named after the wizard. Comics Sauron, a Marvel supervillain who takes the form of an anthropomorphic pterodactyl and renamed himself after the dark lord. He battled the X-Men as a would-be conqueror. Encryption KHAZAD, a block cipher named after the Dwarvish term for dwarves. == Genes and proteins ==

• Smaug, a protein that inhibits translation of mRNA nanos (Greek for dwarf) in Drosophila embryos. Named after the dragon Smaug from The Hobbit. • Glorund, a protein that inhibits translation of mRNA nanos in Drosophila ovaries. Named after Glórund, an early name for Glaurung, the first dragon in Tolkien's legendarium. • Gimli, Gloin and Legolas, retrotransposon elements in the Arabidopsis thaliana plant. Named after two dwarves and an elf. • Galadriel, a retrotransposon from Lycopersicon esculentum. Named after the elf. == Scientific hardware and software ==

• An astrophysical method for locating gamma ray bursts has been named BALROG, for "BAyesian Location Reconstruction Of GRBs". • A prokaryotic gene finder is named Balrog (Bacterial Annotation via Learned Representation of Genes). • A protein model used to assess genome annotation is named PSAURON (Protein Sequence Assessment Using a Reference ORF Network). • An astronomical telescope at the Lowell Observatory, using a main mirror with spherical curvature, has the acronym PALANTIR, standing for Precision Array of Large-Aperture New Telescopes for Image Reconstruction. == Individual plants and animals ==

• Iluvatar is a redwood tree in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park in Northern California that has been confirmed to be at least in diameter at breast height, and in height. Measured by botanist Stephen C. Sillett, it is the world's third-largest coast redwood, the largest being Lost Monarch. • Silmaril is a retired American thoroughbred mare racehorse named after the Silmarils featured in The Silmarillion. == Geographical features ==

Mountains • Four mountains in the Cadwallader Range of British Columbia, Canada: Mount Shadowfax, Mount Gandalf, Mount Aragorn, and Tolkien Peak. • On 1 December 2012, a bid was launched for the New Zealand Geographic Board to name a mountain peak near Milford Sound after Tolkien to mark Tolkien's 121st birthday. Seamounts Several undersea features in the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Ireland and south of Iceland, including: • Eriador Seamount • Rohan Seamount • Gondor Seamount • Fangorn Bank • Edoras Bank • Isengard Ridge At least three seamounts in the Indian Ocean, including: • Eye of Sauron ==Music==

• Amon Amarth, a Swedish melodic death metal band, that takes its name from the Sindarin name of Mount Doom. • Burzum, a Norwegian music project founded by Varg Vikernes in 1991. The word "burzum" means "darkness" in the Black Speech, a fictional language crafted by Tolkien. • Carach Angren is a Dutch symphonic black metal band founded in 2003. Named after a mountain pass in Mordor. • Cirith Ungol, an American heavy metal band founded in 1971 named for a mountain pass in Mordor, through which Frodo, Sam, and Gollum ventured. • Ephel Duath, an Italian avant garde metal/hardcore punk band, formed in 1998 took their name after the mountain range in The Lord of the Rings. • Galadriel, an Australian progressive rock band formed in 1969 named for the elf. • Gorgoroth, a Norwegian black metal band, named after the dead plateau of darkness in the land of Mordor. • , a neo-prog band from Baltimore, US, took their name from Eru Iluvatar. • Isengard, is a solo project of Fenriz, the drummer of Darkthrone, created in 1989. • Marillion, a British rock band, formed in 1979, was named "The Silmarillion", but was shortened to Marillion in 1981 to avoid potential copyright conflicts. • Minas Morgul, an album from the Austrian black metal band Summoning. • Mithril, an American Celtic music quartet. • Morgoth, was a German death metal band. • Morgul, is a Norwegian symphonic black metal band formed in 1991. • Radio Rivendell is a non-commercial, non-profit Internet radio station dedicated to playing fantasy music. • Shadowfax, a new-age group, took its name from Gandalf the White's horse Shadowfax. ==Ships==

• J.R. Tolkien, a gaff-topsail schooner of Netherlands registry used for passenger cruises on the Baltic Sea and elsewhere in European waters, was built in 1964, and renamed in honour of Tolkien in 1998. • Loth Loriën, a barquentine active in the Baltic Sea of Germany and Denmark. == Places ==

Streets The "Tolkien Road" in Eastbourne, East Sussex, was named after Tolkien whereas the "Tolkien Way" in Stoke-on-Trent is named after Tolkien's eldest son, Fr. John Francis Tolkien, who was the priest in charge at the nearby Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Angels and St. Peter in Chains. In the Hall Green and Moseley areas of Birmingham, parks and walkways are dedicated to J. R. R. Tolkien, especially at the Millstream Way and Moseley Bog. In Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England there is a collection of roads in the 'Weston Village' named after locales of Middle Earth, namely Hobbiton Road, Bree Close, Arnor Close, Rivendell, Westmarch Way and Buckland Green. In the Dutch town of Geldrop, near Eindhoven, the streets of an entire new neighbourhood are named after Tolkien himself ("Laan van Tolkien") and some of the best-known characters from his books. Two streets at Warsaw, Poland were named in 2022 after J.R.R. Tolkien and Gandalf. Both streets are located at neighbourhood commonly called Mordor. Housing The Bend, Oregon housing development Forest Creek (formerly "The Shire") features the Tolkien-inspired names Ring Bearer Court, Shire Lane, and Wizard Lane. One of the student housing complexes at the University of California, Irvine is named Middle Earth; its halls and other facilities were selected from Tolkien's legendarium. In the Silicon Valley towns of Saratoga and San Jose in California, there are two housing developments with street names drawn from Tolkien's works. About a dozen Tolkien-derived street names also appear scattered throughout the town of Lake Forest, California. The Columbia, Maryland, neighbourhood of Hobbit's Glen and its street names (including Rivendell Lane, Tooks Way, and Oakenshield Circle) come from Tolkien's works. Pubs The Hobbit in Southampton. It has been in a legal naming dispute with Middle-earth Enterprises because of the name. == Taxonomy ==

It has been noted that "Tolkien has been accorded formal taxonomic commemoration like no other author." In the field of taxonomy, over 200 taxa (genera and species) have been given scientific names honouring, or deriving from, characters or other fictional elements from The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and other works set in Middle-earth. The entomologist Karl-Johan Hedqvist, also a fan of Tolkien, named several wasp genera after Tolkien's characters. In 1999, entomologist Lauri Kaila described 46 new species of Elachista moths and named 38 of them after Tolkien mythology. In 2004, the extinct hominid Homo floresiensis was described, and quickly earned the nickname "hobbit" due to its small size. : J. R. R. Tolkien Ainur Elves Dwarves Race of Men Hobbits Orcs The Nazgûl Ents Other characters Animals Objects and locations Elvish words Other works == See also ==