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Fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien'southward Center-world

Fictional character

Elendil
Tolkien's legendarium character
In-universe data
Race	Men
Title	Lord of Andúnië Loftier Male monarch of the Dúnedain High King of Arnor and Gondor
Affiliation	Lords of Andúnië, The Faithful, Dúnedain
Weapon	Narsil
Children	Isildur, Anárion
Relatives	Amandil (father)
Origin	Númenor
Volume(s)	The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955) The Silmarillion (1977) Unfinished Tales (1980)

Elendil is a fictional graphic symbol in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. He is mentioned in The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. He was the father of Isildur and Anárion, last lord of Andúnië on the island of Númenor, and having escaped its downfall by sailing to Middle-globe, became the first High King of Arnor and Gondor. In the Last Alliance of Men and Elves, Elendil and Gil-galad laid siege to the Nighttime Lord Sauron'south fortress of Barad-dûr, and fought him hand-to-manus for the One Ring. Both Elendil and Gil-galad were killed, and Elendil'due south son Isildur took the Ring for himself.

Tolkien called Elendil a "Noachian figure", an echo of the biblical Noah. Elendil escaped from the flood that drowned Númenor, itself an echo of the myth of Atlantis, founding new Númenórean kingdoms in Middle-earth.

Fictional history [edit]

Biography [edit]

Map of the island of Númenor. Elendil's realm of Andúnië is center left. Númenor was drowned in the cataclysm that ended the 2nd Age; Elendil was ane of the few who escaped to Middle-earth.

Elendil was born in Númenor, son of Amandil, Lord of Andúnië and leader of the "Faithful" (those who remained loyal to the Valar), who maintained a strong friendship with the Elves and preserved the sometime ways against the practices of rex Ar-Pharazôn and Sauron. His begetter Amandil had been a nifty admiral of the Númenórean fleet and a shut friend to Ar-Pharazôn in their youth, but as Sauron's influence grew, he resorted to doing what their antecedent Eärendil had done: sailing to Valinor and request for the pardon of the Valar. Amandil was never heard of again, but on his urging, Elendil, his sons Isildur and Anárion, and their supporters fled the downfall of Númenor at the stop of the Second Age, escaping to Centre-world in ix ships. Elendil landed in Lindon, where he was befriended by Gil-galad, the Elven Male monarch. The waves carried Isildur and Anárion south to the Bay of Belfalas and the rima oris of the River Anduin.^{[T 1]} With them the leaders took the palantíri, the "Seeing Stones" that were given to the Lords of Andúnië past the Elves of Tol Eressëa, and a seedling of Nimloth, the White Tree of Númenor.^{[T two]}

Unfinished Tales states that, upon landing in Middle-earth, Elendil proclaimed in Quenya: Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' Ambar-metta! "Out of the Dandy Body of water to Middle-earth I am come. In this place will I abide, and my heirs, unto the ending of the earth."^{[T 3]} His heir and 40th generation descendant in father-to-son line Aragorn spoke these traditional words once more when he took upwards the crown of Gondor in The Render of the King.^{[T 4]}

Elendil founded the northern realm of Arnor and its uppercase city of Annúminas. His sons founded the southern realm of Gondor; Anárion founded the metropolis of Minas Anor (later Minas Tirith) in Anórien, and Isildur founded Minas Ithil (later Minas Morgul) in Ithilien. Elendil was the Loftier King, ruling directly over Arnor and indirectly over Gondor, via its King.^{[T 2] [T ane]}

Every bit explained in The Fellowship of the Ring, Sauron eventually returned to Heart-globe, establishing a stronghold in Mordor, which was side by side to Gondor. He attacked, seizing Minas Ithil. Isildur fled n to his father, leaving Anárion in charge of Gondor. Elendil and Isildur returned south, together with Gil-galad and their combined armies, in the Last Alliance of Elves and Men. They defeated Sauron in the Battle of Dagorlad, and laid siege to his stronghold of Barad-dûr. During this long siege Anárion was killed. Finally, Sauron came out personally to practise battle. Gil-galad and Elendil fought him, simply both were killed, and Elendil's sword was broken below him. Isildur used his father'southward broken sword to cut the Ane Ring from Sauron's hand.^{[T 5]}

Line of the Half-elven [edit]

Half-elven family tree[T 6] [T seven]

Melian the Maia Thingol of the Teleri Firm of Bëor House of Haleth House of Hador Finwë of the Noldor Indis of the Vanyar Olwë of the Teleri Barahir Belegund Hareth Galdor Fingolfin Finarfin Eärwen Lúthien Beren Rían Huor Húrin Turgon Elenwë Dior Nimloth Tuor Idril Eluréd Elurín Elwing Eärendil Celeborn Galadriel Elros Elrond Celebrían 22 Kings of Númenor and Lords of Andúnië Elendil Isildur Anárion 22 Kings of Arnor and Arthedain 27 Kings of Gondor Arvedui Fíriel xv Dúnedain Chieftains Aragorn Arwen Elladan Elrohir Eldarion Unnamed daughters Colour cardinal: Colour Clarification Elves Men Maiar Half-elven Half-elven who chose the fate of Elves Half-elven who chose the fate of mortal Men

Reception [edit]

Biblical echoes [edit]

Nicholas Birns, a scholar of literature, notes Elendil'due south survival of Númenor'due south fall, an effect that recalls to him both Plato'southward Atlantis and the Biblical fall of man; he notes that Tolkien called Elendil a "Noachian figure",^{[T eight]} an echo of the biblical Noah.^[one] Tolkien explains that Elendil "held off" from the Númenórean rebellion, and had kept ships ready; he "flees before the overwhelming storm of the wrath of the West [from Valinor], and is borne high upon the towering waves that bring ruin to the due west of the Centre-globe."^{[T viii]} Birns notes that Elendil, who he calls a hugely important figure in Middle-earth, must be later on "in comparative time" than Noah; where Noah was a refugee, Elendil was "an imperialist, a founder of realms". However, he grants that "Noachian" implies a class of people similar Noah, and the possibility of different kinds of flood. Birns comments that Heart-globe has its Creation and Alluvion myths, only not exactly a fall of man. He suggests that Tolkien, as a Catholic, may have been more than comfortable working with the forces of nature seen in Creation and Flood, but preferred to leave the autumn alone; he notes that both Creation and Flood are constitute in non-Christian tales from the Middle Due east, citing the Ballsy of Gilgamesh for the Flood and the Enuma Elish for Creation.^[1]

The priest and Tolkien scholar Fleming Rutledge writes that Aragorn, narrating the Lay of Beren and Lúthien to the hobbits, tells them that Lúthien's line "shall never fail". Rutledge talks of the "kings of Númenor, that is Westernesse", and as they gaze at him, they run into that the moon "climbs behind him as if to crown him", which Rutledge calls an echo of the Transfiguration. Rutledge explains that Aragorn is of the line of Elendil and knows he will inherit "the crown of Elendil and the other Kings of vanished Númenor", just as Jesus is of the line of King David, fulfilling the prophecy that the line of Kings would not fail.^[2]

Zak Cramer notes in Mallorn that Tolkien's middle name, Reuel, ways "God's friend", and could be written "El's friend" with reference to the Hebrew discussion for "God". He speculates that Elendil, "Elf-friend", may have been a wordplay on this name.^[3]

Classical echoes [edit]

The classical scholar J. G. Newman compares the myth of Elendil and the defeat of Sauron with Jason's taking of the Golden Fleece. In both, a aureate prize is taken; in both, there are evil consequences – Elendil's son Isildur is betrayed and the Ring is lost, leading to the State of war of the Band and Frodo's quest; Medea murders Jason'south children.^[4]

Germanic echoes [edit]

Tolkien wrote in a 1964 letter that the story of Elendil began when C. S. Lewis and he agreed to write a space travel and a time travel story, respectively. Tolkien'south tale was to be called Númenor, the Land in the West, with repeated father–son pairs whose names meant "Bliss-friend" and "Elf-friend" each fourth dimension. It was non completed, but survives every bit two unfinished fourth dimension-travel novels, The Lost Road and The Notion Guild Papers. The Elf-friends were to exist Elwin in present time; Ælfwine (Onetime English) around 918 AD; Alboin from "Lombardic fable"; and eventually Elendil of Númenor. Tolkien states that he lost involvement in the others, and focussed on Elendil, whose story he incorporated into his "master mythology".^{[T 9] [5]} One of Tolkien's correspondents, the scholar of English, Rhona Beare, writes in Mythlore that Elendil is a "remote antecedent" of Alboin; when Alboin travels back in time he finds Númenor simultaneously familiar and strange, because he can run into it both with Elendil's eyes and with his own.^{[half dozen]}

Names of the frame story characters^[5]

Germanic	Old English	Meaning	Modern name	Quenya (in Númenor)
Alboin	Ælfwine	Elf-friend	Alwin, Elwin, Aldwin	Elendil
Audoin	Eadwine	Elation-friend	Edwin	Herendil
—	Oswine	God-friend	Oswin, cf. Oswald	Valandil ("Valar-friend")

Adaptations [edit]

In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Elendil is portrayed by Peter McKenzie. He appears briefly in the prologue,^[10] where he is killed by Sauron.^[seven] The activity differs from the book, where Gil-galad and Elendil heroically defeated Sauron, at the cost of their ain lives, allowing Isildur to take the Ring without difficulty. In the film, Sauron defeats Elendil, and Isildur fights Sauron, the action of cut off his finger and the Ring serving to trounce Sauron.^{[8] [11]} Tolkien instructed that "Sauron should not be thought of as very terrible. The course that he took was that of a more than than human stature, merely not gigantic", though he "could announced as a commanding figure of great strength of trunk and supremely royal demeanor and countenance."^{[T 10] [ix]} Jackson chooses to make Sauron much larger than Elendil for his final battle. The scholar of English literature Robert Tally comments that information technology is ironic that Jackson may have come up closest to Tolkien's intentions in the prologue by representing Sauron in humanoid form, while he is a disembodied eye everywhere else in the film serial.^[nine]

In the 2022 television series, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Ability, Elendil is played by Lloyd Owen.^[12] The show introduces Elendil as a Númenórean nobleman, who serves as a sea captain. He is a widower with three adult children: sons Isildur and Anárion, and a daughter Eärien.^{[xiii] [fourteen]}

See also [edit]

• Dúnedain

References [edit]

Master [edit]

This list identifies each item'south location in Tolkien's writings.

1. ^ ^{a b} Tolkien 1977, "Of the Rings of Ability and the Third Historic period"
2. ^ ^{a b} Tolkien 1977, "Akallabêth"
3. ^ Tolkien 1980, Part III, ch. 1 "The Disaster of the Gladden Fields"
4. ^ Tolkien 1955, Book VI, ch. 5 "The Steward and the King"
5. ^ Tolkien 1954a, Volume II, ch. two "The Quango of Elrond"
6. ^ Tolkien 1977, "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age": Family Trees I and II: "The house of Finwë and the Noldorin descent of Elrond and Elros", and "The descendants of Olwë and Elwë"
7. ^ Tolkien 1955, Appendix A: Annals of the Kings and Rulers, I The Númenórean Kings
8. ^ ^{a b c} Carpenter 1981, Alphabetic character #131 to Milton Waldman, late 1951
9. ^ Carpenter 1981, Letter #257 to Christopher Bretherton, sixteen July 1964
10. ^ Carpenter 1981, Alphabetic character #246 to Mrs Eileen Elgar, September 1963

Secondary [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} Birns, Nicholas (15 July 2011). "The Stones and the Volume: Tolkien, Mesopotamia, and Biblical Mythopoeia". Tolkien and the Written report of His Siurces, ed. Jason Fisher: 10. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
2. ^ Rutledge, Fleming (2004). The Battle for Middle-globe: Tolkien's Divine Design in The Lord of the Rings. Wm. B. Eerdmans. p. 83. ISBN978-0-8028-2497-4.
3. ^ Cramer, Zak (2006). "Jewish Influences in Heart-earth". Mallorn (44 (August 2006)): nine–xvi. ^{[ expressionless link ]}
4. ^ Newman, J. K. (2005). "J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings": A Classical Perspective". Illinois Classical Studies. 30: 229–247. JSTOR 23065305.
5. ^ ^{a b} Shippey 2005, pp. 336–337.
6. ^ Beare, Rhona (1996). "Time Travel". Mythlore. 21 (3 (81, Summer 1996)): 33–35. JSTOR 26812581.
7. ^ ^{a b} Pringle, Gill (20 September 2013). "Bret McKenzie: Conchord flies into Prejudice". Retrieved 11 August 2020.
8. ^ ^{a b} Elvy, Craig (17 October 2020). "Lord of the Rings: Peter Jackson'south Movies Made Isildur More than Heroic". ScreenRant . Retrieved 19 Feb 2022.
9. ^ ^{a b c} Tally, Robert T. (2016). "Tolkien's Geopolitical Fantasy: Spatial Narrative in The Lord of the Rings". Popular Fiction and Spatiality. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 125–140.
10. ^ Welch, Alex (25 Apr 2021). "Precious Amazon'south Lord of the Rings serial could reveal one kingdom's epic origin story". Inverse . Retrieved 19 Feb 2022.
11. ^ "Elendil". Tolkien Gateway . Retrieved 19 February 2022.
12. ^ Coggan, Devan (13 July 2022). "Welcome to Númenor: Get an exclusive wait at The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power". Entertainment Weekly. Meredith Corporation. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
13. ^ Coggan, Devan (14 September 2022). "Rings of Power star Lloyd Owen talks Elendil and geeking out over Elvish". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 17 September 2022.
14. ^ Farnell, Chris (ix September 2022). "The Rings of Power: What Elendil Means for the Futurity of Lord of the Rings". Den of Geek . Retrieved 17 September 2022.

Sources [edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Elendil.

• Carpenter, Humphrey, ed. (1981). The Messages of J. R. R. Tolkien. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN978-0-395-31555-2.
• Shippey, Tom (2005) [1982]. The Route to Eye-Earth (Third ed.). HarperCollins. ISBN978-0261102750.
• Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954a). The Fellowship of the Band. The Lord of the Rings. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. OCLC 9552942.
• Tolkien, J. R. R. (1955). The Return of the Male monarch. The Lord of the Rings. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. OCLC 519647821.
• Tolkien, J. R. R. (1977). Christopher Tolkien (ed.). The Silmarillion. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN978-0-395-25730-2.
• Tolkien, J. R. R. (1980). Christopher Tolkien (ed.). Unfinished Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN978-0-395-29917-3.

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