Character Bios
Hador Lórindol
Meaning: Lórindol 'Goldenhead'
Other Names:
the Golden-haired
Location(s):
Dor-lómin
Race/Species: Man
Type/Kind: 1st Age Edain
Title(s):
1st Lord of Dor-lómin
Dates:
I 389 - 455
Parents:
father: Hathol
Spouse:
Gildis (HoME 11 only)
Children:
Glóredhel
Galdor
Gundor
Description:
Hador Lórindol, son of Hathol, was the first Lord of Dor-lómin and the patriarch for whom the Third House of the Edain was named:
Hador Goldenhead was a lord of the Edain and well-beloved by the Eldar. He dwelt while his days lasted under the lordship of Fingolfin, who gave to him wide lands in that region of Hithlum which was called Dor-lómin. His daughter Glóredhel wedded Haldir son of Halmir, lord of the Men of Brethil; and at the same feast his son Galdor the Tall wedded Hareth, the daughter of Halmir.
Galdor and Hareth had two sons, Húrin and Huor. Húrin was... like Hador his grandfather, fair of face and golden-haired, strong in body and fiery of mood.
Unfinished Tales, Part 1, Ch 2, Narn I Hîn Húrin: The Childhood of Túrin
Now Hador Lórindol, son of Hathol, son of Magor, son of Malach Aradan, entered the household of Fingolfin in his youth, and was loved by the King. Fingolfin therefore gave to him the lordship of Dor-lómin, and into that land he gathered most of the people of his kin, and became the mightiest of the chieftains of the Edain. In his house only the Elven-tongue was spoken....
The sons of Hador were Galdor and Gundor; and the sons of Galdor were Húrin and Huor; and the son of Húrin was Túrin the Bane of Glaurung; and the son of Huor was Tuor, father of Eärendil the Blessed.
The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Ch 17, Of the Coming of Men into the West
The Men of the Three Houses throve and multiplied, but greatest among them was the house of Hador Goldenhead, peer of Elven-lords. His people were of great strength and stature, ready in mind, bold and steadfast, quick to anger and to laughter, mighty among the Children of Ilúvatar in the youth of Mankind. Yellow-haired they were for the most part, and blue-eyed; but not so was Túrin, whose mother was Morwen of the house of Bëor.
The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Ch 17, Of the Coming of Men into the West
In the days before the Dagor Bragollach those two houses of the Edain were joined at a great feast, when Galdor and Glóredhel the children of Hador Goldenhead were wedded to Hareth and Haldir the children of Halmir lord of the Haladin.
The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Ch 18, Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin
So great was the onslaught of Morgoth [in the Dagor Bragollach] that Fingolfin and Fingon could not come to the aid of the sons of Finarfin; and the hosts of Hithlum were driven back with great loss to the fortresses of Ered Wethrin, and these they hardly defended against the Orcs. Before the walls of Eithel Sirion fell Hador the Golden-haired, defending the rearguard of his lord Fingolfin, being then sixty and six years of age, and with him fell Gundor his younger son, pierced with many arrows; and they were mourned by the Elves. Then Galdor the Tall took the lordship of his father.
The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Ch 18, Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin
Etymology
laure 'gold' (but of light and colour, not of the metal) in Laurelin; the Sindarin forms in Glóredhel, Glorfindel, Loeg Ningloron, Lórindol, Rathlóriel.
The Silmarillion, Appendix: Elements in Quenya and Sindarin Names
dol 'head' in Lórindol; often applied to hills and mountains, as in Dol Guldur, Dolmed, Mindolluin (also Nardol, one of the beacon-hills of Gondor, and Fanuidhol, one of the Mountains of Moria).
The Silmarillion, Appendix: Elements in Quenya and Sindarin Names
Contributors:
Elena Tiriel 18Aug06, 8Dec10