Save Gender Masculine Usage Literature, Germanic Mythology Pronounced Pron. Kee-lee(Literature) [key] Meaning & History Name of one of the dwarves in The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. Fili's brother.Tolkien took the name from the Dvergatal "Catalogue of Dwarves" in the Völuspá, a part of the Poetic Edda.