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| | Tolkien Enterprises |
 | | Middle-Earth was richly populated by Tolkien with wonderfully original characterizations of humans, wizards, elves, dwarves, dragons, goblins and many other fanciful characters, including those such as hobbits, orcs, balrogs, woses and ents which grew out of mythological elements filtered through Tolkien's creative imagination. |
 | | olkien Enterprises licenses the names and likenesses of the fanciful characters, places, things and events for use as trademarks and service marks in connection with various lines of merchandise. |
 | | The list of fanciful names derived from Tolkien's writings includes, among others, Middle-Earth, Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship, Gandalf, Bilbo, Frodo, Gollum, Rivendell, Lothlórien, the Shire, Moria, Mordor, Shadowfax, Treebeard, Mirkwood and the Misty Mountains. |
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