Dírhaval
| Dírhaval | |
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| Dírhaval (left) in "The Lay of the Children of Hurin" by Juliana Pinho | |
| Biographical Information | |
| Other names | Dírhavel |
| Position | Poet |
| Language | Taliska, Sindarin |
| Death | F.A. 538 At the Havens of Sirion during the Third Kinslaying |
| Notable for | composing Narn i Chîn Húrin |
| Family | |
| House | House of Hador |
| Physical Description | |
| Gender | Male |
| Gallery | Images of Dírhaval |
Dírhaval was a Man of the House of Hador who lived among the exiles and refugees at the Havens of Sirion during the closing century of the First Age, at the time of Eärendil.
History
Dírhaval was known as a poet, though he only produced a single poem in the Minlamad thent/estent, one of the three Elvish Verse Modes. At the Mouths of Sirion, he drew upon “all the tidings and lore” [1] of the people of Dor-lómin, Nargothrond, Doriath, and other lands of Beleriand. Dirhaval also learned from people such as Mablung and Andvír. He compiled and wrote it all in the Narn i Chîn Húrin ("Tale of the Children of Húrin"), telling of the tragedy of Morgoth's curse on Húrin's children: Túrin and Nienor. It was written in Sindarin, in which he had great skill, and it was the longest of all the lays to come out of Beleriand.
Dírhaval did not write other poems or lays, as the Silmaril captured by Beren and Lúthien was in the keeping of Elwing: soon the Sons of Fëanor launched an attack on the exiles in the Havens of Sirion to claim it. Dírhaval was one of those who fell in the Third Kinslaying.[2][1]
Other names
In the Unfinished Tales, Dírhaval is referred to by the name Dírhavel.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Three. The Wanderings of Húrin and Other Writings not forming part of the Quenta Silmarillion: II. Ælfwine and Dírhaval", pp. 311 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "WJII" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "Narn i Hîn Húrin (The Tale of the Children of Húrin)", "Notes", p. 146
