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One suggestion is that "Gollum" derives from golem, a being in Jewish folklore (Prague golem pictured). [4]The Tolkien scholar Douglas A. Anderson, editor of The Annotated Hobbit, suggests that Tolkien derived the name "Gollum" from Old Norse gull/goll, meaning ' gold '; this has the dative form gollum, which can mean ' treasure '. [4]
A Polish Kabbalist, writing in about 1630–1650, reported the creation of a golem by Rabbi Eliyahu thusly: "And I have heard, in a certain and explicit way, from several respectable persons that one man [living] close to our time, whose name is R. Eliyahu, the master of the name, who made a creature out of matter [Heb. Golem] and form [Heb ...
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
Elon (אֵילוֹן in Hebrew) is a masculine first name, or Jewish surname, which means "oak tree" in the Hebrew language.Variants of the name include Alon, Eilan, Eilon, and Elan; it can also be a variant spelling of Ilan and Ilon (Hebrew: אילן), of the similar meaning "tree".
Gul is a common name in Persian [1] (گل Gol), Pashto (ګل Gwal) and Turkish (Gül) languages, meaning rose. [2] Gul is used as a family name in Europe , Central and South Asia . It is also a Nordic given name, used in Swedish , Danish , and Norwegian languages as a short form of Guðólfr ( Godwulf ).
Colin is an English-language masculine given name. It has two distinct origins: [2] A diminutive form of "Colle", itself an Old French short form of the name Nicolas . This name, but not the anglicized Gaelic name, is also found in the spelling Collin. This name is formed by the Old French diminutive -in also found in Robin.
Guillaume is the French equivalent of William, which is of old Germanic origin from wille + helm (resolute protector). [1] It is an Oïl form corresponding to Occitan Guilhem and the Catalan form Guillem .
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum (German: Der Herr der Ringe: Gollum) is an action-adventure game developed by Daedalic Entertainment.The game, set in the fictional world of Middle-earth created by J. R. R. Tolkien, takes place in between the events of The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring.