Wilibald Bolger
The grandson of Gundabald Bolger and son of Theobald Bolger. Wilibald married Prisca Baggins, and was thus a very distant relation of...
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Wilderland
A term for the lands of Middle-earth that lay east of the Misty Mountains. ‘Wilderland’probably represents the Westron...
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Wild Men of the Woods
At the end of the Third Age, a remnant of the Drúedain still lived beneath the feet of the White Mountains, and in the lands westward....
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Wild Wood
A mysterious and possibly mythical wood associated with the origins of the Elves. If the Wild Wood existed at all, it would seem to have...
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Wild Men
Soon after the first rising of the Sun, Morgoth became aware of the awakening of a new race in Arda: the first Men had awakened in the...
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Wild Elves
A name used by Mîm the Petty-dwarf in contrast to the Sindar and the Noldor of Beleriand. His meaning is not entirely clear; he may have...
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Wild
An untamed, dangerous region of Middle-earth. Its boundaries are somewhat indefinite, but it seems to have been approximately equivalent to...
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Wilcome ‘Jolly’ Cotton
The second of Tolman Cotton’s four sons. With his three brothers and their sister Rose, Jolly Cotton had been a childhood friend of...
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Wilcome ‘Will’ Cotton
The second son of Holman Cotton of Bywater, and thus the younger brother of Farmer Tolman and uncle to Rose, the bride of Sam Gamgee....
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Widow Rumble
“‘There is no need to come yet, if you don’t want to,’said Frodo. ‘But you know the Gaffer is close at hand,...
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Whitwell
A village or town near Tuckborough in the Shire’s Tookland region, at the western end of the Green Hills. Thain Paladin Took II,...
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Wídfara
One of the Riders of Rohan who followed Théoden to Minas Tirith. His home was in the Wold, the wild grasslands of Rohan’s northern...
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Whitfurrows
A village or small town that lay on the East Road through the Shire, approximately midway between Frogmorton (about ten miles to the west)...
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White-socks
One of five ponies owned by Meriadoc Brandybuck, who were taken by Frodo and his companions on the first part of their journey to...
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