Locations named after Tolkien's works
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Several locations have been given names after fictional locations and characters of Tolkien's Middle-earth and wider Legendarium.
Cities
Geldrop
Geldrop is a Dutch town with a neighbourhood whose streets are all related to Tolkien and his Legendarium.[1]
Jacksonville
Jacksonville is a city in Florida that has a neighbourhood with street names based on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.[2]
Geographical features
Mountains
Seamounts
- Eriador Seamount.[6]
- Rohan Seamount.[7]
- Gondor Seamount.[8]
- Eye of Sauron Seamount.[9]
- Barad-dûr Seamount.[9]
- Ered Lithui Seamount.[9]
- Fangorn Bank.[10]
- Edoras Bank.[11]
- Isengard Ridge.[12]
Astronomy
Titan
Titan is one of Saturn's moons. Its mountains (Montes) are named after mountains in Arda and hills (colles) after characters.[13]
The named montes of Titan are: Angmar Montes, Dolmed Montes, Doom Mons, Echoriat Montes, Erebor Mons, Gram Montes, Irensaga Montes, Merlock Montes, Mindolluin Montes, Misty Montes, Mithrim Montes, Rerir Montes, Taniquetil Montes.
Asteroids
Other
- Kuiper Belt object 385446 Manwë and its moon Thorondor.[17]
- Trans-Neptunian object 174567 Varda and its moon Ilmarë.[18]
- A series of regions of Pluto called Balrog Macula.[19]
- The Eye of Sauron is a nickname given to many objects due to a similar appearance including, the nebulae M 1-42,[20] Helix Nebula,[21] star system HR 4796A,[22] and Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151.[23]
- Earendel, a star in the constellation of Cetus. Even though it is an Anglo-Saxon name that predates Tolkien, the researches involved in its discovery were fans of his works and chose the name for that reason. [24]
See also
References
- ↑ Frank Jacobs, "Suburb Designs Its Neighborhood around J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth" dated 13 February 2016, BigThing.com (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ Ennis Davis, "10 Jax neighborhoods with thematic street names" dated 5 December 2016, TheJaxsonMag.com (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ "Mount Shadowfax", www2.gov.bc.ca/ (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ "Mount Gandalf", www2.gov.bc.ca/ (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ "Mount Aragorn", www2.gov.bc.ca/ (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ "Eriador Seamount", MarineRegions.org (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ "Rohan Seamount", MarineRegions.org (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ "Gondor Seamount", MarineRegions.org (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Harry Baker, "Eye of Sauron' volcano and other deep-sea structures discovered in underwater 'Mordor" dated 23 July 2023, livescience.com (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ "Fangorn Bank", MarineRegions.org (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ "Edoras Bank", MarineRegions.org (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ "Isengard Ridge", MarineRegions.org (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ Gabrielle Barone, "The Unexpected Journey from Tolkien to Titan", (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ IAU Minor Planet Center, "(2991) Bilbo = 1975 JC = 1979 SY3 = 1982 HV = 1982 KB2" dated 3 August 2018, MinorPlanetCenter.net (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(2675) Tolkien". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (2675) Tolkien. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 219. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.
- ↑ IAU Minor Planet Center, "(378214) Sauron = 2007 AP11", MinorPlanetCenter.net (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ "385446 Manwe", (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ IAU Minor Planet Center, "(174567) Varda = 2003 MW12", MinorPlanetCenter.net (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ Adam Rogers, "The New, Nerdy Mythology of Pluto's Place Names", Wired.com (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ "The Eye Of Sauron Is Nebula ESO 456-67", tgdaily.com (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ Paulo Lobao, "The Eye of Sauron (AKA NGC7293)", SkyandTelescope.org (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ Flora Graham, "Eye of Sauron star spotted by planet-hunting camera", NewScientist.com (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ "NGC 4151: An Active Black Hole in the "Eye of Sauron"", chandra.Harvard.edu (accessed 4 February 2024)
- ↑ Meet Earendel: Hubble telescope's most distant star discovery gets a Tolkien-inspired name, space.com (accessed 6 February 2024)
