
Elmir (Av. "Star-man", "look-precious" or "second Man" ?) was one of the two first mannish children ever to exist in the sleep of Iluvatar, whom the Dark Elf Nuin found in the Murmenalda in Hildorien with his brother Ermon. Upon awakening, both became pupils of the Avari, and of them learned speech and wisdom beyond their age.
The Tale of Ermon and Elmir (N)[]
As they grew, they became strong and agile, and took to wandering from their Elven refuges. In these wanderings, shortly before they had grown to full stature, they encountered others of their kind in the legendary forest of Edenâ, which lay at the north of the Murmenalda. There, Elmir and his brother met two fair women amongst a primitive and speechless folk, and united their kin to themselves, teaching them wisdom and knowledge. Elmir took the woman Wê to be his wife, while Ermon became betrothed to her sister Mïlle (Av. "Mother"). This proved Elmir's undoing, for Morgoth himself, discovering by way of espionage the awakening of this new people, personally left his throne in Angband, and, coming southeast and sending a demon in the form of a serpent, he spread by his forked tongue his lies and wicked philosophies. Ermon and his wife resisted, together with the strongest and wisest folk of Hildorien; but Wê herself came to under the shadow, and eventually turned her husband to her following. Bearing children between them, they abused their offspring and instilled them with the hateful mind of Morgoth, and soon they spread their teachings amongst the ancient men of the Murmenalda; they cut down its sacred trees, and rejected the woodcraft and simple culture of their people. Strife rose between the divided hosts, and eventually the people of Elmir, in revolt, burned the garden-forest, which legend said had been made for the dwelling of Men by Eru himself, and upon that site, under Morgoth's tutelage, Elmir's folk began the building of a great and foul Temple.
Elmir's sons were many, and they became great kings, following the ways of Morgoth and doing him homage; and the descendants of their peoples became the Asrabi, the wild peoples of the east and south-- but Elmir and Wê their forefathers were cursed by their deeds. Misfortune seemed to follow them; their sons cast them forth in exile, seizing power for themselves and they wandered northward, hoping to find the stronghold of Morgoth in the north and with it the great power and bliss which he had promised them, but they found no such things; only wild lands, peopled by beasts and hostile folk. Resentful now of one another, Elmir and Wê rejected their former love, and cast one another away. Alone in the wastes, they perished by all accounts. This deed, the defilement of the sanctity of Men, was together with the corruption of a number of the Elves into the twisted race of the Orcs, the most hateful of the deeds of the Dark Lord, and the most sinful against Iluvatar.
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Original form: Eve = Wê, Eden = Edenâ
The Tale of Ermon and Elmir briefly is mentioned in the Book of Lost Tales but J. R. R. Tolkien never finished or continued it.The version presented here is a fan-fic re-adaption inspired by the old testament.