Sam Heughan Reveals He & His Brother Were Named After Characters from This Book Franchise!

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Sam Heughan is confirming the origin of his name! In a new interview on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Kelly asked the 40-year-old Outlander actor if it was really true that his parents named he and his brother, Cirdan, after characters from J.R.R.

Tolkien‘s The Lord of the Rings novels. “Wow, you’re really digging me into a hole here,” Sam replied. “Yes, yes it’s true.

My brother is called Cirdan. Those Lord of the Rings fans that are out there they might recognize it. I believe he was the elf that took all the elves from Middle Earth to wherever the elves go at the end of the book.

He was the shipwright.” Sam continued, “My nickname is Sam, for Samwise.” If you didn’t know, there is a character named Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings