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==History== | ==History== | ||
In {{TA|1636}}<ref>{{App|TA}}</ref> Minastan's elder brother [[Telemnar]] had sat on their father's throne for just two years when he died with all his heirs in the [[Great Plague]].<ref>{{App|Gondor}}</ref> Minastan had also died by this time - perhaps he too met his end in the Plague - but he left behind a surviving heir, [[Tarondor (King of Gondor)|Tarondor]], who became the first King of a new line.<ref>{{App|South}}</ref> | In {{TA|1636}}<ref>{{App|TA}}</ref> Minastan's elder brother [[Telemnar]] had sat on their father's throne for just two years when he died with all his heirs in the [[Great Plague]].<ref>{{App|Gondor}}</ref> Minastan had also died by this time - perhaps he too met his end in the Plague - but he left behind a surviving heir, [[Tarondor (King of Gondor)|Tarondor]], who became the first King of a new line.<ref>{{App|South}}</ref> | ||
==Etymology== | |||
''Minastan'' is [[Quenya]]. Its meaning is not glossed, but as Paul Strack explains, it might mean "Smith of the Tower" and be a compound of a shortened form ''minas'' of [[minasse]] ("tower") and the suffixal form ''-tan'' of [[tamo]] ("smith, builder").<ref>{{webcite|author=Paul Strack|articleurl=https://www.eldamo.org/content/words/word-96627655.html|articlename=Q. ''Minastan'' m.|website=Eldamo|accessed=28 July 2021}}</ref> | |||
== Genealogy == | == Genealogy == |
Revision as of 15:23, 28 July 2021
Minastan | |
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Gondorian | |
Biographical Information | |
Location | Gondor |
Language | Westron |
Birth | After T.A. 1516 |
Family | |
House | House of Anárion |
Parentage | Minardil |
Siblings | Telemnar |
Children | Tarondor |
Physical Description | |
Gender | Male |
Minastan was the second son of King Minardil of Gondor.
History
In T.A. 1636[1] Minastan's elder brother Telemnar had sat on their father's throne for just two years when he died with all his heirs in the Great Plague.[2] Minastan had also died by this time - perhaps he too met his end in the Plague - but he left behind a surviving heir, Tarondor, who became the first King of a new line.[3]
Etymology
Minastan is Quenya. Its meaning is not glossed, but as Paul Strack explains, it might mean "Smith of the Tower" and be a compound of a shortened form minas of minasse ("tower") and the suffixal form -tan of tamo ("smith, builder").[4]
Genealogy
Hyarmendacil II 1391 - 1621 | |||||||||||||||
Minardil 1454 - 1634† | |||||||||||||||
Telemnar 1516 - 1636† | MINASTAN unknown | ||||||||||||||
children unknown† | Tarondor 1577 - 1798 | ||||||||||||||
Telumehtar Umbardacil 1632 - 1850 | |||||||||||||||
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Third Age"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Númenorean Kings", "Gondor and the Heirs of Anárion"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Númenorean Kings", "The Realms in Exile", "The Southern Line: Heirs of Anarion"
- ↑ Paul Strack, "Q. Minastan m.", Eldamo - An Elvish Lexicon (accessed 28 July 2021)