Elwing
Quick Facts
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| Dates: | Born in Ossiriand before the fall of Doriath, in about the year I 500 | ||||||||||||||
| Race: | Half-elven, counted among the Elves | ||||||||||||||
| Division: | Primarily Sindar1 | ||||||||||||||
| Meaning: | 'Star-spray'2 | ||||||||||||||
The spouse of Eärendil
The daughter of Dior Eluchíl and wife of Eärendil the Mariner. When the sons of Fëanor destroyed her home, the Vala of the Sea gave her the form of a white bird, and so she came to her husband on the Sea with a Silmaril on her breast.
Footnotes
| 1 | Elwing's mother had, as far as we know, pure Sindarin blood. The line of her father Dior, though, contained other strains; his grandmother Melian had been a a spirit out of Aman, and his father Beren was a mortal Man. |
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| 2 | Elwing's name comes from the starlight glinting on the waterfall at her father's house in Ossiriand, on the night she was born. |
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