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IngwIn the fictional universe of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, Ingw is the leader of the first Kindred of Elves called the Vanyar and the uncle of Indis, wife of Finw. He was reckoned as High King of all the Elves. Other versions of the legendarium In early versions of Tolkien's mythology (see: The History of Middle-earth) this Elf's name was Inw. In that early writing Ingw (or Ing) was instead the name of a mortal man, King of Lthien or Leithian or Luthany, who was driven east over the sea by Oss and became ruler among the ancestors of the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians. Eventually the Angles, Saxon and Jutes return to Lthien or Leithian or Luthany, now long renamed as Britain. Tolkien was here adapting traditions about a Germanic ancestral figure named Ing/Ingio/Ingui/Yngvi. He is seen as an eponymous ancestor of the Ingvaeones/Ingaevones, a people mentioned by Tacitus in his Germania as one of the three divisions of the Germanic peoples. In Scandinavian mythology, was the mythological ancestor of the Swedish House of Ynglings and a name for the god Freyr. Like Ingw, Freyr was the lord of the Elves in lfheim.
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