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In the fictional universe of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, Ingwë is the leader of the first Kindred of Elves called the Vanyar and the brother of Indis, wife of Finwë. 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 Inwë.

In that early writing Ingwë (or Ing) was instead the name of a mortal man, King of Lúthien or Leithian or Luthany, who was driven east over the sea by Ossë and became ruler among the ancestors of the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians. Eventually the Angles, Saxon and Jutes return to Lúthien or Leithian or Luthany, now long renamed as Britain.

Tolkien was here adapting vague traditions about a Germanic ancestral figure named Ing/Ingio/Ingui seen as eponymous ancestor of the Ingvaeones/Ingaevones, a people mentioned by Tacitus in his Germania as one of the three divisions of the Germanic peoples.

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