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Mar. 12th, 2024 10:41 pm
For my anon who asked if I had any Fourth Age headcanon family trees … indeed I do. :D
This is simplified; people are placed by convenience rather than age, and more of the second generation (Elfwinë et al.) have children than appear here, but I haven’t thought too much that far in. Also:
- Ithíriel, Elros’s wife here, comes from this headcanon; the short version is that she was a Hadorian loremaster who made for an obscure Queen of Númenor but a highly accomplished scholar and patroness of scholarship.
- In POME, Tolkien says that the Stewards were not direct descendants of the line of Elendil but were ultimately “of royal origin,” which I take to mean that they come from some junior Elrosian offshoot along the way. A lot of Dúnedain probably do at this point (many times over, at that).
- In UT, Tolkien says that the ancestors of the Princes of Dol Amroth were kin of Elendil. This doesn’t have to be on the Elrosian side, but my headcanon is that it is and they were related through Inzilbêth.
- I imagine Princess Telperiën as silver-haired and named for Celebrían (not Tar-Telperiën, much as I love her)
- Glóredhel is the only one of Faramir and Éowyn’s children with golden hair, and was named for it and (as I imagine is pretty common) for the Edainic figure from the First Age, not Elves.
- Elfhild*/Elvaeth marries a Dúnadan of the North and goes to Arnor; Athelflaed/Aravain becomes a knight in Gondor (her path somewhat smoothed by her aunt Éowyn’s heroics) and a close friend and protector of Eldarion.
- Morwen’s son Barahir, sister-son of Glóredhel and Eldarion, is the Barahir who wrote The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen.
[ETA 3/12/2024: *I later changed my name about Elfhild/Elvaeth's name. I knew it sounded familiar and couldn't recall why at the time, but this is the name of Théoden's wife and I didn't want to also use it for Éomer and Lothíriel's daughter, but I did want to retain the alternate name Elvaeth after she ends up in Arnor. I went for the sneaky route and renamed her Steorrahild, because the el- of Elvaeth could represent the OE component Elf but also OE Steorra, "star."]
