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The sandpit at Sarehole, Warwickshire, England.This (said Aunt Grace) was why he was given the nickname Tollkühn, ‘foolhardy’ and the name stuck." ― J.R.R. He had shown great daring in leading an unofficial raid against the Turks and capturing the Sultan’s standard. A certain George von Hohenzollern had, she said, fought on the side of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria at the Siege of Vienna in 1529.

" He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club." ― An Unexpected Party, The Hobbit " She alleged that the family name had originally been ‘von Hohenzollern’, for they had emanated from the Hohenzollern district of the Holy Roman Empire. " ― Nomenclature Bandobras 'the Bullroarer' Took

and meant to be associated (by hobbits) with Bag End. Bilbo’s conversation with Smaug in The H. " ― Nomenclature Baggins " Intended to recall bag - cf. " It was the local name for my aunt's farm in Worcestershire, which was at the end of a lane leading to it and no further.

Tolkien's aunt Jane Neave's farm, called Bag End by the locals, in Dormston, Worcestershire.

Tolkien: A Biography Aragorn Īrchery " Red Indians were better: there were bows and arrows (I had and have a wholly unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow)." ― On Fairy-Stories " But he liked Red Indian stories and longed to shoot with a bow and arrow." ― J.R.R. Many were cast down in ruin, but many more replaced them, and Orcs sprang up them like apes in the dark forests of the South." ― Helm's Deep, The Lord of the Rings " One day a neighbour’s pet monkeys climbed over the wall and chewed up three of the baby’s pinafores." ― J.R.R. Ropes with grappling hooks were hurled over the parapet faster than men could cut them or fling them back. Orcs and hillmen swarmed about its feet from end to end. " Against the Deeping Wall the hosts of Isengard roared like a sea.

1 'apes in the dark forests of the South'.