Save Gender Masculine Usage Literature, Folklore, Germanic Pronounced Pron. IE-zen-grim(Literature) [key] Other Forms FormsYsengrim Meaning & History A variant form of Isangrim. This is the name of a wolf found in many medieval stories, most notably in the French folktale of Reynard the Fox. The author J. R. R. Tolkien used it as a hobbit name in 'The Lord of the Rings' (1954).