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It was the 439th most popular female name in Scotland in 2023. [12] Fiona was the 71st most popular name for baby girls born in 2023 in Germany. [13] The name was the most common female name in the ranking of most popular names for baby girls born in Liechtenstein in 2022. [14] In 2023, in Switzerland, Fiona was the 66th most popular name. [15]
Gollum is a monster [2] with a distinctive style of speech in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth. He was introduced in the 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit, and became important in its sequel, The Lord of the Rings. Gollum was a Stoor Hobbit [T 1] [T 2] of the River-folk who lived near the Gladden Fields.
The British author J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) and the names of fictional characters and places he invented for his legendarium have had a substantial impact on culture, and have become the namesakes of various things around and outside the world, including street names, mountains, companies, species of animals and plants, asteroids, and other notable objects.
Gollum (software), the wiki system used by the GitHub web hosting system; Gollum browser, a web application designed for using Wikipedia; Gollum or Golin language, a language of Papua New Guinea; The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, a video game; The NATO reporting name for the Smerch/Shtil-1 naval SAM in the Buk missile family
Ian and Fiona, two of 2022's most catastrophic weather events, will no longer be used as names for tropical storms or hurricanes in the Atlantic basin, the World Meteorological Organization ...
A. gollum is named after the cave-dwelling character Gollum from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings book series, as a reference to both A. gollum and Gollum being former surface-dwellers that evolved to adapt to the caves they lived in. [2] [5] [6] The genus Aenigmachanna was raised for the first time on discovery of A. gollum, with aenigma meaning "enigma" in Latin, and ...
Just give me a moment.” Fiona Shaw pauses, and takes a deep, calming breath… before being plunged straight back into the topic she’s come to dread. The C-word. “It’s hard to talk about ...
In Irish mythology, Finnguala (modern spellings: Fionnghuala, Fionnuala / ˌ f iː ə ˈ n uː ə l ə /, [1] or Finola; literally fionn-ghuala meaning "white shoulder") was the daughter of Lir of the Tuatha Dé Danann.