The fictional farmhand hero in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Farmer Giles of Ham is named Giles.
Giles is an ordinary farmer who unexpectedly becomes a local hero after confronting a giant and later facing the dragon Chrysophylax Dives. The story is a comic medieval-style fairy tale rather than a part of the Middle-earth legendarium.
Tolkien published Farmer Giles of Ham in 1949. Its mock-heroic tone, wordplay, and invented pseudo-history show a different side of his writing from the solemn mythology of The Lord of the Rings. The name “Giles” also echoes the Latin form Aegidius, a detail that contributes to the tale’s playful treatment of language and medieval documents.