Character Bios
Elendur of Númenor
Location(s):
Númenor
Gondor
Race/Species: Man
Type/Kind: 2nd age Numenoreans
Title(s): Heir of Isildur
Dates: II 3299 - III 2 (October 4th)
Description:
Elendur was the oldest son and heir of Isildur, until he died at the Disaster of the Gladden Fields:
Isildur was overwhelmed by a host of Orcs... nigh to... the Gladden Fields.... There well nigh all his people were slain, and among them were his three elder sons, Elendur, Aratan, and Ciryon; but his wife and his youngest son, Valandil, he had left in Imladris when he went to the war.
The Silmarillion, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age
Elendur, not yet harmed, sought Isildur. He was rallying the men on the east side where the assault was heaviest, for the Orcs still feared the Elendilmir that he bore on his brow and avoided him. Elendur touched him on the shoulder and he turned fiercely, thinking an Orc had crept behind.
"My King," said Elendur, "Ciryon is dead and Aratan is dying. Your last counsellor must advise nay command you, as you commanded Ohtar. Go! Take your burden, and at all costs bring it to the Keepers: even at the cost of abandoning your men and me!"
"King's son," said Isildur, "I knew that I must do so; but I feared the pain. Nor could I go without your leave. Forgive me, and my pride that has brought you to this doom." Elendur kissed him. "Go! Go now!" he said....
So perished Elendur, who should afterwards have been King, and as all foretold who knew him, in his strength and wisdom, and his majesty without pride, one of the greatest, the fairest of the seed of Elendil, most like to his grandsire.
Unfinished Tales, Part 3, Ch 1, The Disaster of the Gladden Fields
It is said that in later days those (such as Elrond) whose memories recalled [Elendur] were struck by the great likeness to him, in body and mind, of King Elessar, the victor in the War of the Ring, in which both the Ring and Sauron were ended for ever. Elessar was according to the records of the Dúnedain the descendant in the thirty eighth degree of Elendur's brother Valandil. So long was it before he was avenged. [Author's note.]
Unfinished Tales, Part 3, Ch 1, The Disaster of the Gladden Fields: Notes, Note 26
Contributors:
Elena Tiriel 7Nov07