Soronto (Q."Eagle") (DE 799 - ? DE) was a Númenórean lord.
He was the son of Princess Ailinel and her husband, Orchaldor, a member of the House of Hador.
His uncle, Tar-Aldarion, had no sons, and changed the law of succession to equal inheritance so that his daughter Ancalimë could become queen. This also put Soronto as second in the line of succession, as beforehand it would only be possible to come to the throne through the unbroken male line of Elros.
Soronto hoped to claim the throne due to a clause in the new law that said the queen had to marry and bear children. As Ancalimë disliked Soronto, she reluctantly married Hallacar to spite a cousin. Once she bore a son, Anárion, Soronto was no longer heir presumptive.
| Boromir: "Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing!" - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring II:10 |