A few questions about Middle Earth (knights, titles and names) - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Kransha · 05-26-2004, 02:26 PM

Welcome, Albrecht. This site, were we all go in death, has a respectable generator of Elven, Halfling, Orc, Adunaic, and Dwarven names for your use.

Actually, Elianna, I believe that very few of those titles were used. The race with the most titles are the Hobbits themselves (Warden of the Undertowers, Thane of the Shire, Shirriff of Bywater, Master of Buckland, etc). The only 'knights' per se, in Middle-Earth, were the Knights of Dol Amroth, those who rescued Faramir at Pelennor (personal movie gripe). Dukes and Counts are unrecorded in Tolkein. I think the only titles are King, Steward, and Lord. Gondor has various fiefs (Lebennin, Lossarnach) but they are not really ruled by noble titled folk, if I remember correctly. Also, all of those titles are specific. There are no baronies, counties, earldoms, duchies, or other in Gondor, only 'dem fiefs.

05-26-2004, 02:26 PM	#6
Kransha Ubiquitous Urulóki Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The port of Mars, where Famine, Sword, and Fire, leash'd in like hounds, crouch for employment Posts: 747	Welcome, Albrecht. This site, were we all go in death, has a respectable generator of Elven, Halfling, Orc, Adunaic, and Dwarven names for your use. Actually, Elianna, I believe that very few of those titles were used. The race with the most titles are the Hobbits themselves (Warden of the Undertowers, Thane of the Shire, Shirriff of Bywater, Master of Buckland, etc). The only 'knights' per se, in Middle-Earth, were the Knights of Dol Amroth, those who rescued Faramir at Pelennor (personal movie gripe). Dukes and Counts are unrecorded in Tolkein. I think the only titles are King, Steward, and Lord. Gondor has various fiefs (Lebennin, Lossarnach) but they are not really ruled by noble titled folk, if I remember correctly. Also, all of those titles are specific. There are no baronies, counties, earldoms, duchies, or other in Gondor, only 'dem fiefs. __________________ "What mortal feels not awe/Nor trembles at our name, Hearing our fate-appointed power sublime/Fixed by the eternal law. For old our office, and our fame," -Aeschylus, Song of the Furies