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Tołkiny is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Korsze, within Kętrzyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Korsze, west of Kętrzyn, and north-east of the regional capital Olsztyn. According to the findings of German genealogists, the Tolkien family probably comes from Tołkiny.

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Tołkiny
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Village
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A church in Tołkiny
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Voivodeship
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Warmian-Masurian
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Kętrzyn
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Gmina
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Korsze
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Tołkiny is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Korsze, within Kętrzyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Korsze, west of Kętrzyn, and north-east of the regional capital Olsztyn. According to the findings of German genealogists, the Tolkien family probably comes from Tołkiny.

==Notable residents== Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1882-1944), German general and resistance fighter

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