Village Homes streets are nearly all named for people or places in JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth series (which includes The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings).

Tom Bombadil is an ancient and jovial spirit who lives in the Old Forest. He is described as being "Old as the world," and sings constantly.

"Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow; Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow."

Tom helped the four hobbits (Frodo, Sam, Pippin, and Merry) to escape the clutches of an evil willow tree, and later helped them again when they were caught by an undead creature called a barrow wight.

Bree is the town of the Hobbits where Frodo, Sam, Pippin, and Merry first saw the Nazgul (the dark riders of Sauron), and where Frodo accidentally slipped the ring on his finger and became invisible, revealing his identity.

Bucklebury is the name of the ferry where the four hobbits crossed the river, narrowly avoiding the Nazgul.

Elendil is a noble human who fights Sauron (he is seen briefly in the prologue to the Fellowship of the Ring film). Sauron smites him with a mace and breaks his sword, Narsil, in half. Prince Isuldur then graps the broken sword and slices through Sauron's finger, separating him from the One Ring and a great deal of his power.

Evenstar is the last name of Arwen Evenstar, a brave Elven warrior-maiden who helped the four hobbits escape from the Nazgul by calling on the river. Arwen was Elrond's daughter, and lived in Rivendell and Lorien for roughly 3000 years in contentment, until she met and fell in love with Aragorn. After the War of the Ring, Arwen and Aragorn were married on midyears day, and Arwen became Queen of Gondor.

Goldberry is Tom Bombadil's wife, daughter of the river Withwyndle. She is the embodiment of spring, dressed always in silver-green clothes with dew drops.

"Then another clear voice, as young and as ancient as Spring, like the song of a glad water flowing down into the night from a bright morning in the hills, came falling like silver to meet them..."

Oakenshield is the last name of Thorin Oakenshield, the king of the dwarves who, in The Hobbit, accompanied Bilbo Baggins to defeat the great dragon Smaug and recover the Arkenstone, a diamond of great sentimental value to the dwarves. Thorin was killed in the Battle of Five Armies, and the Arkenstone placed on his grave. His name comes from a great battle with Orcs, in which his shield was smashed. Using his axe, he hewed a massive limb off an oak tree and used that to ward off the Orcs' blows.

Overhill is the township which lay on the far side of Hobbiton from where Frodo and Bilbo lived.

Rivendell is the Elven stronghold where Elrond and Arwen Evenstar live, and where the four hobbits take refuge from the Nazgul. It is situated in the foothills of the Misty Mountains between the rivers Mitheithel and Bruinen.

The Shire is the home of the race of the Hobbits. They live a simple life and care little for the events and news of the outside world. Hobbits enjoy a quiet rural lifestyle of farming, gardening and raising animals.

The Westernesse is the ancestral homeland of the humans in Lord of the Rings. Located far away over the ocean, it is the source of much magic. When Pippin the hobbit battles the Lord of the Nazgul, he uses a sword from the barrow wight's tomb, which is the only weapon able to harm the Nazgul.

"So passed the sword of the Barrow-downs, work of Westernesse. But glad would he have been to know its fate who wrought it slowly long ago in the North-kingdom when the Dunedain were young, and chief among their foes was the dread realm of Angmar and its sorcerer king. No other blade, not though mightier hands had wielded it, would have dealt that foe a wound so bitter, cleaving the undead flesh, breaking the spell that knit his unseen sinews to his will."