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Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar
Standelf is on Tolkien's own map in FotR - between the prologue and Book I in my edition. I haven't found a text reference to it in the books I have, but at any rate it is not Fonstad's invention.
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Ooh... ops... really? I don't have it on the map in my edition of FotR. There is Haysend, there is Deephallow on the other side of the river, but nothing else. This was my idea, because I haven't seen on any map except of that in Atlas, I came to a conclusion that Tolkien must have mentioned Standelf in some of his written texts, and Karen Fonstad placed it there because of she read about it (much like Breredon and Haysend, which are mentioned in the Adventures of Tom Bombadil). Apparently, it is not so?
...why I am asking: even if Tolkien wouldn't mention it anywhere else, why do you think Hobbits would choose that strange name like "Standelf" for one of their villages? To me, "Standhobbit" or "Standbuck" (since we are in Buckland) would be far more appropriate. Or at least "Standoldmanwillow"... mmm, maybe they have their own version of houses labeled "Queen Elizabeth visited this house", so it might be "Tombombadilstayedherefor3nights"... why isn't it called like that?