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Means "apt to hide, secretive" in Old English. This name was invented by J.R.R. Tolkien for a minor character in his novel 'The Lord of the Rings' (1954). This is the Old English translation or cognate of the "true" Westron name #Nahald# (as Tolkien pretended that his writings were translated from the fictional 'Red Book of Westmarch'). In the first volume, 'The Fellowship of the Ring', the hobbit Déagol discovers the One Ring, after its being lost for hundreds of years, in the Gladden river while fishing with his friend Sméagol. He is choked to death by Sméagol after refusing to give it up; his body is hidden and never found.