Tar-Amandil
Tar-Amandil | |
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Númenórean | |
Biographical Information | |
Other names | Ar-Aphanuzir (A) |
Titles | King of Númenor |
Language | Adûnaic, Sindarin and Quenya |
Birth | S.A. 192 |
Rule | S.A. 442 - 590 (de facto) S.A. 443 - 590 (de jure) |
Death | S.A. 603 (aged 411) |
Family | |
House | House of Elros |
Parentage | Vardamir |
Siblings | Aulendil, Nolondil and Vardilmë |
Children | Eärendur, Elendil and Mairen |
Physical Description | |
Gender | Male |
Gallery | Images of Tar-Amandil |
Tar-Amandil was the third King of Númenor. He ruled for 148 years, from 442 to 590 of the Second Age. Tar-Amandil was legally the third King, but actually its second ruler. His father, Vardamir Nólimon, declined to take the Sceptre upon the death of his own father, Elros Tar-Minyatur, and was only a titular King.[1]
Tar-Amandil had three children: two sons, Elendil and Eärendur; and a daughter, Mairen.[2] Just as his father had yielded the Sceptre before his death, Tar-Amandil abdicated in 590 and was succeeded by his eldest son Elendil, who would rule as Tar-Elendil. This tradition of renouncing the Sceptre a few years before death was observed by most of the rulers of Númenor until Tar-Atanamir.[1]
Etymology
Amandil means "Devoted to Aman" in Quenya (from -ndil "friend, lover, devoted to"). Like all the rulers of Númenor who took their royal names in Quenya, Amandil added the prefix tar- ("high") to his name when he received the Sceptre.
His Adûnaic name was Ar-Aphanuzir.[source?]
Genealogy
Tar-Vardamir | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TAR-AMANDIL | Vardilmë | Aulendil | Nolondil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tar-Elendil | Eärendur | Mairen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tar-Meneldur | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by: Tar-Vardamir |
3rd King of NúmenorII 442 – 590
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Followed by: Tar-Elendil |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The Line of Elros: Kings of Númenor"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "Aldarion and Erendis: The Mariner's Wife", "The earlier generations of the Line of Elros"