Character Bios
The last ten updated biographies
- Eärnur
- Eärnur, son of Eärnil II, 32nd King of Gondor, was the 33rd King of Gondor. He was the last king for nearly one thousand years, as the Ruling Stewards reigned over Gondor:Eärnur rides to Minas Morgul and is lost. Mardil becomes the first Ruling Steward. The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, The Tale...
- Last Update: 01/20/12
Complete - Emeldir
- Emeldir of the House of Bëor is the great-great-great-granddaughter of Bëor the Old, wife of Barahir, 4th Lord of Ladros, and the mother of Beren Erchamion, 5th Lord of Ladros:Now Morgoth's power overshadowed the Northlands; but Barahir would not flee from Dorthonion, and remained contesting the lan...
- Last Update: 01/19/12
Complete - Barrow-wights
- Evil creatures that dwell in the tombs of ancient kings in the Barrow-downs:The Witch-king... had known something of... the Tyrn Gorthad of Cardolan, now the Barrow-downs, whose evil wights had been sent there by himself. Unfinished Tales, Part 3, Ch 4, The Hunt for the Ring: Other Versions of t...
- Last Update: 01/19/12
Complete - Ulmo
- The Vala whose domain was all the waters of Arda:Ulmo is the Lord of Waters. He is alone. He dwells nowhere long, but moves as he will in all the deep waters about the Earth or under the Earth. He is next in might to Manwë, and before Valinor was made he was closest to him in friendship; but thereaf...
- Last Update: 12/27/11
Complete - Trolls
- Huge, malicious, sentient creatures of the Dark, made by Morgoth in mockery of the Ents: Table of Contents:Description Common Trolls Olog-hai Language Notes Description The Trolls, by JRR Tolkien.Many things of beauty and wonder remained on earth in that time [Third Age], and many things al...
- Last Update: 10/09/11
Complete - Balrogs
- Balrogs are corrupted Maia who clothe themselves in Middle-earth as terrifying demons of shadow and flame:The Balrogs, of whom the whips were the chief weapons, were primeval spirits of destroying fire, chief servants of the primeval Dark Power of the First Age. The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, E...
- Last Update: 06/24/11
Complete - Rog of Gondolin
- Rog is a noble of Gondolin, the Lord of the House of the Hammer of Wrath, whose warriors all perished defending the fallen Gates in the Fall of Gondolin:Then said Rog in a great voice: "Who now shall fear the Balrogs for all their terror? See before us the accursed ones who for ages have tormented t...
- Last Update: 06/24/11
Basic - Mouth of Sauron
- The Mouth of Sauron was the messenger that rode out of the Black Gate to parley with the Captains of the West.There came a long rolling of great drums..., and then a braying of horns that shook the very stones and stunned men's ears. And thereupon the middle door of the Black Gate was thrown open......
- Last Update: 04/17/11
Complete - Elurín
- The secondborn of the twin 1 sons of Dior, Lord of Doriath, and Nimloth; brother of Eluréd and Elwing; kidnapped by the Fëanorians during the Ruin of Doriath and never seen again:500. Elrún 2 and Eldún 2 twin sons of Dior are born. The War of the Jewels, HoME Vol 11, Part 3, Ch 5,...
- Last Update: 03/28/11
Complete - Eluréd
- The firstborn of the twin 1 sons of Dior, Lord of Doriath, and Nimloth; brother of Elurín and Elwing; kidnapped by the Fëanorians during the Ruin of Doriath and never seen again:500. Elrún 2 and Eldún 2 twin sons of Dior are born. The War of the Jewels, HoME Vol 11, Part 3, Ch 5, ...
- Last Update: 03/10/11
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