Character Bios
Elfwine
Meaning: Elf-friend
Other Names: the Fair
Location(s): Rohan
Race/Species: Man
Type/Kind: Rohirrim
Title(s): 19th King of Rohan
Dates: early Fourth Age
Parents:
father: Éomer, 18th King of Rohan
mother: Lothíriel of Dol Amroth
Description:
Elfwine the Fair, son of Éomer, 18th King of Rohan, and Lothíriel of Dol Amroth, nephew of Imrahil, 22nd Prince of Dol Amroth, and first cousin once removed of Faramir, 1st Prince of Ithilien, is the 19th King of Rohan:
In the last year of the Third Age [Éomer Éadig] wedded Lothíriel, daughter of Imrahil. Their son Elfwine the Fair ruled after him.
The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, Annals of the Kings and Rulers: The House of Eorl
[Imrahil's] kinship1 with Éomer of Rohan, though distant, was recognized by Imrahil, and great friendship grew between them. Éomer wedded Imrahil's daughter, and their son, Elfwine the Fair, had a striking likeness to his mother's father.
Unfinished Tales, Part 3, Ch 1, The Disaster of the Gladden Fields: Appendix, Númenórean Linear Measures
Notes
1 Éomer's maternal grandmother, Morwen of Lossarnach, was descended from the line of Princes of Dol Amroth:
Éomer... with other descendants of King Thengel were taller than the norm of Rohan, deriving this characteristic (together in some cases with darker hair) from Morwen, Thengel's wife, a lady of Gondor of high Númenórean descent....
She was known as Morwen of Lossarnach, for she dwelt there; but she did not belong to the people of that land. Her father had removed thither, for love of its flowering vales, from Belfalas; he was a descendant of a former prince of that fief, and thus a kinsman of Prince Imrahil.
Unfinished Tales, Part 3, Ch 1, The Disaster of the Gladden Fields: Appendix, Númenórean Linear Measures
Contributors:
Elena Tiriel 2Feb08, 9Sep09
