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Mänwe · 01-10-2007, 10:06 AM

How fascinating, thank you for alerting us to this Child. Caves sure are turning up some new discoveries. I have taken the liberty of aquiring a picture of it;

But six feet long antenna! How very unwieldly for a body size of two centimeters.

Macalaure · 01-10-2007, 10:23 AM

There's an amazing amount of animals named after Tolkien's characters. (click on "Names from Other Fictional Characters" and scroll down a bit)

My favourite is clearly a moth called Elachista maglorella.

The Might · 01-10-2007, 01:00 PM

quite interesting, especially as Tolkien has his very own category there...
nice to see most of the important characters already received this tribute, and Gollum already had other species named after him
I also liked that perhaps not so well known characters such as Daeron also have been used

Bêthberry · 01-10-2007, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Macalaure

There's an amazing amount of animals named after Tolkien's characters. (click on "Names from Other Fictional Characters" and scroll down a bit)

My favourite is clearly a moth called Elachista maglorella.

By gosh and by Gollem, Tolkien even has his own sub-category, the only author to be so recognised!

Of course, a sentimental favourite of mine would have to be Bubogonia bombadili and Protoselene bombadili (Van Valen, 1978) (Paleocene mammals) after Tom Bombadil. And there's even a creature named for the palantiri!

I wonder if I should run off and pen some nonsense verse using bubogonia as a refrain?

Holbytlass · 01-10-2007, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Mänwe

But six feet long antenna! How very unwieldly for a body size of two centimeters.

That's where the other insects got the notion that it could turn invisible. When they felt something touch them they turned and no one was there! Since six feet is a very long way when you're only 2 centimeters and in the dark, too.

Thanks Child for the info and thanks Manwe for the picture.

shieldmaiden4xsword · 01-10-2007, 02:13 PM

thanx for the info and picture. That's really really really cool!!!!!

creepy to be touched, and then you turn, and there's nothing there. And then you get poked again, and then you turn, and then you see nothing. And then....

makes you get paranoid after awhile.

the guy who be short · 01-11-2007, 11:38 AM

I like some of the logic used behind the names.

Pericompsus bilbo - 'So called because "it was short, fat, and had hairy feet."'

Nice links, all of you. It is remarkable that so many taxonomists, presuming I have not misspelt/misremembered the name of their profession, have such an interest in Tolkien.

Dimturiel · 01-11-2007, 12:54 PM

My, my, we Tolkien fans cannot refrain from referring to his work somehow.

I must confess this really made my day. It is wonderful to see people paying Tolkien such a tribute, and thus showing everyone that they acknowledge his worth.

Rikae · 01-20-2007, 07:15 PM

You'll note, if you look closely at the picture, the chink of light in it's soul. Clearly, with six foot antennae, it has superior balance and would not fall into a volcano unless it harboured an unconscious wish to do so for some reason...

01-10-2007, 10:06 AM	#1
Mänwe Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: May as well be the Arctic Circle Posts: 283	How fascinating, thank you for alerting us to this Child. Caves sure are turning up some new discoveries. I have taken the liberty of aquiring a picture of it; But six feet long antenna! How very unwieldly for a body size of two centimeters. __________________ "I am, I fear, a most unsatisfactory person." - (Letter #124 To Sir Stanley Unwin) Last edited by Mänwe; 01-10-2007 at 10:13 AM.

01-10-2007, 01:00 PM	#3
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	quite interesting, especially as Tolkien has his very own category there... nice to see most of the important characters already received this tribute, and Gollum already had other species named after him I also liked that perhaps not so well known characters such as Daeron also have been used __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

01-10-2007, 02:13 PM	#6
shieldmaiden4xsword Wight Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: where people stick out their tongues at their youth pastor.... Posts: 183	thanx for the info and picture. That's really really really cool!!!!! creepy to be touched, and then you turn, and there's nothing there. And then you get poked again, and then you turn, and then you see nothing. And then.... makes you get paranoid after awhile. __________________ Sometimes the peril is not in what is around us, what enemies or trials that may come, but what is in our own hearts.

01-11-2007, 12:54 PM	#8
Dimturiel Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2005 Location: the road less travelled by Posts: 910	My, my, we Tolkien fans cannot refrain from referring to his work somehow. I must confess this really made my day. It is wonderful to see people paying Tolkien such a tribute, and thus showing everyone that they acknowledge his worth. __________________ Is this the end? No more the hunt, the journey and the goal? That terrifies me most: no more the goal! -Ray Bradbury, Leviathan '99

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01-10-2007, 10:23 AM	#2
Macalaure Fading Fëanorion Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: into the flood again Posts: 2,911	There's an amazing amount of animals named after Tolkien's characters. (click on "Names from Other Fictional Characters" and scroll down a bit) My favourite is clearly a moth called Elachista maglorella.

01-11-2007, 11:38 AM	#7
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	I like some of the logic used behind the names. Pericompsus bilbo - 'So called because "it was short, fat, and had hairy feet."' Nice links, all of you. It is remarkable that so many taxonomists, presuming I have not misspelt/misremembered the name of their profession, have such an interest in Tolkien.

01-20-2007, 07:15 PM	#9
Rikae Mellifluous Maia Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth Posts: 3,489	You'll note, if you look closely at the picture, the chink of light in it's soul. Clearly, with six foot antennae, it has superior balance and would not fall into a volcano unless it harboured an unconscious wish to do so for some reason...