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Ermon


Ermon (Av. "Lone from Womb" ?) 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 Elmir. 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, he 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 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 Utumno, and, coming southeast and sending a Demon in the form of a serpent, he spread by his forked tongue his lies and wicked philosophies.Wê herself came to follow these teachings, and eventually turned her husband to her following; while under Mïlle's wise counsel and steadfast spirit, Ermon resisted, and encouraged faithfulness amongst their people and their own children. Strife rose, and eventually the people of Elmir, in revolt, burned the garden-forest which legend said had been made for their dwelling by Eru himself, and upon that site, under Morgoth's tutelage, Elmir's folk began the building of a great and foul Temple.

Ermon fled with his family and their fledgling folk, and now a great rising Chieftain, he sought the advice of his Avari tutors. They instructed him to move his people westward, to seek the aid of the Guardians in the Westland, who it was rumored had made war upon Morgoth and his darkness. He guided his people in that direction, and his teachings, the long journey westward, and their adaptations along the way would lead them to become the Lintanoi, the noble kindreds of men who preserved the teachings of the Elves, and the worship of Iluvatar, and founded great peoples in the West. His ultimate descendants were the Edain, who fought alongside the Noldor in the Wars of the Powers, and with their teachings later founded the great realm and empire of Númenor, greatest of the realms of Men. It is thus that Ermon was regarded as the father of western-Mannish civilization.

Notes[]

Original forms: Eve = Wê, Eden = Edenâ


The Tale of Ermon and Elmir briefly is mentioned in the Book of Lost Tales but Tolkien never finished or continued it.The version presented here is a fan-fic re-adaption inspired by the old testament.

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