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| children=[[Elwing]], [[Eluréd]], [[Elurín]] | | children=[[Elwing]], [[Eluréd]], [[Elurín]] | ||
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Dior was also | Dior was also called '''''Eluchíl''''' ("Heir of Elu")<ref name="Index">{{S|Index}}</ref>, '''''Aranel''''' ("Noble Elf" or "King of Elves"), <ref name="Index"/><ref name=Fifth/> and '''the Fair'''. | ||
==Other versions of the Legendarium== | ==Other versions of the Legendarium== |
Revision as of 19:32, 10 July 2020
Dior | |
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Half-elf | |
"Descendants of Thingol" by Jenny Dolfen | |
Biographical Information | |
Other names | Eluchíl (Thingol's Heir), Aranel |
Titles | King of Doriath, Peredhil |
Location | Ossiriand, Doriath |
Language | Sindarin (Doriathrin) |
Birth | F.A. 470 Tol Galen |
Rule | F.A. 503 - 506 |
Death | F.A. 506 (aged 36) Menegroth, during the Second Kinslaying |
Family | |
House | House of Bëor |
Heritage | Mannish father, half-Elf/half-Maia mother |
Parentage | Beren and Lúthien |
Spouse | Nimloth |
Children | Elwing, Eluréd, Elurín |
Physical Description | |
Gender | Male |
Weaponry | Presumably Aranrúth[1] |
Gallery | Images of Dior |
Dior was the son of Beren and Lúthien, and the grandson and heir to the throne of Elu Thingol, King of Doriath. Dior was the first of the Peredhil.[2][3]
History
Dior was born on the island of Tol Galen in East Beleriand.[4] When he was 27, he married Nimloth of Doriath,[note 1] and took her back to live by the Lanthir Lamath waterfall at the base of the Blue Mountains. There they had three children: Elwing, Eluréd, and Elurín.
After Thingol was slain by the Dwarves who coveted the Nauglamír, Dior with his father and a host of Green-elves of Ossiriand journeyed swiftly north to the river Ascar and fought the Dwarves of Nogrod in the Battle of Sarn Athrad.[5]
In F.A. 503, he and his family went to Menegroth and restored the realm of Doriath.[5] After the death of his parents, a lord of the Laiquendi came to Doriath bringing the Nauglamir, which was worn by his mother.[5] After mourning, he decided to wear it himself.[5] When he placed the Nauglamir on himself, it sat lightly and he appeared as the fairest of three living races: Maiar, Elven, and Human.[5] This news came to the Sons of Feanor, who came to Doriath with their followers, consumed by the Oath of Feanor.[5]
Dior managed to kill Celegorm, and Caranthir and Curufin were also slain, but the kingdom of Doriath was destroyed.[5] So Dior and Nimloth were slain, during the Second Kinslaying, along with anyone preventing the Sons of Fëanor from gaining the Silmaril.[5]
After the attack, the servants of Celegorm left Eluréd and Elurín in the forest to die.[5] Elwing, however, carrying the Nauglamir, escaped with the remnant of the Elves of Doriath to the Havens of Sirion.[5] Years later, she would wed Eärendil and together they would seek aid from Valinor.[6]
Genealogy
Elu Thingol | Melian | House of Bëor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lúthien | Beren | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DIOR | Nimloth1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eärendil | Elwing | Eluréd | Elurín | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elrond | Elros | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Etymology
In the Etymologies, the name Dior is said to mean "successor" in Doriathrin. The name derives from Primitive Quendian ndeuro ("follower, successor"), from root NDEW.[7]
Other names and titles
Dior was also called Eluchíl ("Heir of Elu")[8], Aranel ("Noble Elf" or "King of Elves"), [8][4] and the Fair.
Other versions of the Legendarium
In The Book of Lost Tales, a name of Dior was Ausir (Gn. "The Wealthy").[9][10]
Notes
- ↑ Nimloth's parentage is uncertain. She may have been the daughter of Galathil and a descendant of Elmo, the younger brother of Elu Thingol.
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "A Description of the Island of Númenor", note 2
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "XI. The Shibboleth of Fëanor", "The names of Finwë's descendants"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "XII. The Problem of Ros"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Ruin of Doriath"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", p. 375
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Index of Names"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, "V. The Tale of Eärendel", pp. 240, 244, 251
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "I-Lam na-Ngoldathon: The Grammar and Lexicon of the Gnomish Tongue", in Parma Eldalamberon XI (edited by Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, and Patrick H. Wynne), p. 20
Dior House of Bëor | ||
Preceded by: Thingol | 2nd King of Doriath F.A. 503 – 506 | None Doriath destroyed |