Tarondor (King of Gondor)
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Tarondor | |
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Gondorian | |
Biographical Information | |
Titles | King of Gondor |
Location | Gondor |
Language | Westron |
Birth | T.A. 1577 |
Rule | T.A. 1636 - 1798 |
Death | T.A. 1798 (aged 221) |
Family | |
House | House of Anárion |
Parentage | Minastan |
Children | Telumehtar |
Physical Description | |
Gender | Male |
Gallery | Images of Tarondor |
Tarondor (T.A. 1577[1] - 1798,[2] aged 221 years) was the twenty-seventh King of Gondor.
History
Tarondor became the King of Gondor when his uncle Telemnar and all of his children died in the year of the Great Plague, in T.A. 1636.[2] During the plague most of the people of Osgiliath fled the city for the western dales or the woods of Ithilien, and Tarondor permanently relocated the king's house to Minas Anor. There he planted a seedling of the White Tree in the citadel, and undertook the task of reordering the realm and nursing its strength. Due to the depopulation of Gondor the watch on Mordor ceased.[3]
Genealogy
Minardil | |||||||||||||||
Telemnar | Minastan | ||||||||||||||
TARONDOR | |||||||||||||||
Telumehtar | |||||||||||||||
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "VII. The Heirs of Elendil"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Númenorean Kings", "The Realms in Exile", "The Southern Line: Heirs of Anarion"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Númenorean Kings", "Gondor and the Heirs of Anárion"
Tarondor House of Anárion | ||
Preceded by: Telemnar | 27th King of Gondor T.A. 1636 - 1798 | Followed by: Telumehtar |