Having recently posted to FB (and on here) about re-reading Tolkien’s Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, I suddenly had a desire to learn the origin of the Tolkien family name.
I found this article, amongst many other suggestions. And it seems quite plausible. But another source suggested a different meaning.
What these two differing explanations concurred in was a ‘Low Prussian’ origin, which also sits well with the fact that a Tolkien ancestor moving from Danzig to England in the 18th century.
Also in that neck of the woods, there is the Polish town of Tolkiny:
