Editing Figwit (section)

=== In other media ===

Figwit does not appear in Tolkien's writings and was created exclusively for the films; thus there is little authentic information regarding him, save that he is a royal escort. The only "official" place where the name Figwit is used is on several [[Topps]] trading cards, including a ''The Return of the King'' series card, titled "Return to Rivendell," and an Authentic Autographs card featuring the signature of actor [[Bret McKenzie]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.topps.com/Entertainment/ROTK/index.html |title=The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Movie Cards |publisher=[[Topps]] |access-date=July 31, 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070814113205/http://www.topps.com/Entertainment/ROTK/index.html |archive-date = August 14, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> In ''[[The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game]]'' he was assigned the name of '''Aegnor''', one of [[Galadriel]]'s brothers in ''[[The Silmarillion]].'' A Figwit [[action figure]] was also created, though it was named "Elven Escort," as in the film.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lotr-models.co.uk/index106.html |title=The Lord of the Rings Collector's Models |website=lotr-models.co.uk |access-date=July 31, 2008|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080804180135/http://www.lotr-models.co.uk/index106.html |archive-date=August 4, 2008}}</ref>

Figwit has been a subject of poetry, art, and fiction,<ref name="torontostar"/> in particular in the [[slash fiction|slash]] genre of [[Tolkien fan fiction]], where he is named ''Melpomaen''. This is a chimera translation of "figwit" from two of Tolkien's [[Elvish languages (Middle-earth)|Elvish languages]]: ''melpo'', [[Quenya]] for "fig",<ref>{{cite journal |title=Qenyaqetsa: The Qenya Phonology and Lexicon |last=Tolkien |first=J. R. R. |author-link=J. R. R. Tolkien |year=1998 |journal=[[Parma Eldalamberon]] |publisher=[[Mythopoeic Society]] |location=East Lansing, Michigan|issue=12 }}</ref> and ''maen'', [[Sindarin|Noldorin]] for clever or skilled.<ref>{{cite book |title=A Gateway to Sindarin: A Grammar of an Elvish Language from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings |first=David|last=Salo |publisher=[[University of Utah Press]] |location=Salt Lake City, Utah|year=2004 |page=319 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4dsSn0QAmi0C&q=sindarin+maen&pg=PA304 |isbn=0-87480-800-6 }}</ref>