Meriadoc Brandybuck to be an actual phonetic transcription of the name in Tolkien's invented language of Westron, which Tolkien said he transliterated to English as follows: The nickname "Merry" represents his actual nickname "Kali" which meant "handsome, happy", and "Meriadoc" serves as a plausible name from which a nickname meaning "happy" could be derived. Alternately, "The Middle-Earth Encyclopedia" writes that Meriadoc means "joyful" or "cheerful," while Merry means "having high spirits." Théoden called Merry "Holdwine", and the Hobbit was thus known as such in the records of Rohan. It most probably derives from the Old English words "hold" and "wine", respectively meaning
Beregond and Bergil friendship and loyalty to Peregrin Took contributes greatly to establishing the latter's affinity to Gondor. Beregond and Bergil Beregond and Bergil are father-and-son fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. They appear in "The Return of the King", where Beregond has a key role in saving Faramir from death. Bergil plays a smaller part in saving a number of characters. Neither Beregond nor any of his family appear in the film version: "". Beregond is the first Captain of the White Company; the guard of Faramir, Prince of Ithilien; and previously, a member of the Third Company of