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Arondir (Av. "Wish-stone-man" ?) was one of those elves who had been recruited by Galadriel and Celeborn in the last years of the First Age from the lands east of Beleriand to fight against Morgoth among the Wild elves and Men of Darkness. He originally had been a grower prior to the war and his folk came from a southern line of Avari and the Nandor of later Harondor and south Ithilien. In the Second Age he still served among those elves who had stayed behind in the volcanic southlands of later Núrn and Mordor to have a watchful eye on the descendants of the wild men who had once served the Dark Lord.
Arondir had a forbidden love with a Woman of Middle-earth, Bronwyn of Tirharad, whose people despised the elves as occupyers and opressors while his own comrades had given up hopes on mortals and told him unions between both races were doomed and ill-fated.
History[]
For nearly ninety years, Arondir was part of a garrison of Silvan Elves who were stationed at the Watchtower of Ostirith under the Watchwarden, Revion, to keep a watch over men believed to have a high risk of choosing the Shadow. In that time, he eventually fell for a healer named Bronwyn, who had a son named Tîo from a previous love.
Arondir was eventually given orders to leave after the watchtower was decommissioned on the orders of Gil-galad from Lindon. However, before he could depart, he and Bronwyn noticed a cow with a strange affliction, bringing them to the destroyed village of Hordern. The village had been destroyed, and all had been disappeared. They then realized that there was a resurgence of Orcs in the area.
Notes[]
The name "Arondir" looks like a mix of Quenya and Sindarin forms and might be interpreted as a Nandorin-Sindarin name meaning "Nobleman" though it could also be derived from primitive kwendian "Irigondondêr" - "wish-stone-man", which could well become "Arondir" in a southwestern Avarin dialect.Or it could be an unclear form from an unidentified southern Nandorin dialect In the early Second Age Sindarin was not yet very common among the Silvan folk, as Oropher's people had just started to settle among the woodland-folk of the Great Greenwood. A possible Sindarin etymology could be "royal stone man", from Ar(a) + gond + dîr, though due to his origin, it is unlikely.
Few details have been released about this character. As it relates to an upcoming adaptation, it is subject to change.
Although love between Men and Elves was exceedingly rare, the love between Arondir and Bronwyn can be taken as one of the "doomed" (fated) romances of non-nobility that had some great impact on both their peoples.
References[]
- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power