At first, they wanted to name as many streets as possible after deserving council alumni. When the neighbourhood designer’s motivations were explained to the Street Name Committee, they had 14 days to come up with an idea for the street names. But, of course, there has to be a reason why the town decided to go with names from Tolkien’s beloved series. Well, if you look up why, you’ll most likely get the response that no one knows. So why name the neighbourhood after Lord of the Rings?
It seems as though the area has inspired peoples’ choice of pet names ?. There's even a pre-school called De Hobbit!įun fact: according to the animal health centre in Geldrop, back in March, there were 16 pets in the town with the name Frodo and two called Gimli. You won’t find any streets named after “evil” characters, apart from one called Saruman. The dwarf section is in the west and includes the character names: Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Balin, Dwalin, Dori, Ori, Fili and Kili. In the centre, you can see Gandalf and Samwise. In the north of the neighbourhood, you’ll find Gondorian streets with names like Aragon, Denethor and Palantir, and to the south, you’ll find Pippin, Peregrin and Gimli. The streets haven’t been named higgledy-piggledy, either: the elves are with the elves and the dwarves with the dwarves. Nowhere else in the world has this many streets bearing the names of Tolkien’s fantasy figures. In the Genoenhuis neighbourhood in Geldrop, almost 90 streets are named after characters from Lord of the Rings. This is, of course, not news, since the streets have held the names since the early 90s, but it is still pretty awesome.
One neighbourhood in the town of Geldrop, close to Eindhoven, has named all its streets after J.R.R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings characters.
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