In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, the Man in the Moon is described as being an old Elf who secretly hid on the island of the Moon, and built his minaret there. This is alluded to further in Tolkien's Roverandom, where the Man in the Moon also lives in a Minaret.
In the Book of Lost Tales, his name is given as Uolė Kśvion, but the tale of how he came to live there was never fully told.
See also: The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late
