The most notable of these names was Gandalf, meaning "Wand Elf." Originally, Tolkien planned to use Gandalf as the name of the Dwarves' leader in The Hobbit, but since Elves and Dwarves in his ...

In "The Lost Road," Tolkien followed father-son pairs whose names all had the same meaning — "Elf-friend" and "Bliss-friend." The last pairing was that of Elendil (played by Lloyd Owen in The ...