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''Herumor'' | ''Herumor'' is [[Quenya]]. Its meaning is not glossed, but as Paul Strack explains it seems to mean "Black Lord" and to be a compound of | ||
''[[heru]]'' ("lord") and ''[[morë]]'' ("dark, black").<ref>{{webcite|author=Paul Strack|articleurl=https://www.eldamo.org/content/words/word-3301232385.html|articlename=Q. ''Herumor'' m.|website=Eldamo|accessed=25 November 2021}}</ref> | |||
== Portrayal in adaptations == | == Portrayal in adaptations == |
Revision as of 13:33, 25 November 2021
Herumor | |
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Númenórean | |
"Herumor" by Isabella Pavani | |
Biographical Information | |
Location | Associated with Harad |
Affiliation | Sauron |
Rule | Late Second Age[note 1] |
Physical Description | |
Gender | Male |
Gallery | Images of Herumor |
Herumor was a Black Númenórean who lived in the late Second Age. After the Downfall of Númenor, no small number of these people sailed eastward to Middle-earth, and Herumor was among them. With another named Fuinur, he settled among the Haradrim, and became a lord in the lands of the Harad.[1]
Etymology
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Herumor is Quenya. Its meaning is not glossed, but as Paul Strack explains it seems to mean "Black Lord" and to be a compound of heru ("lord") and morë ("dark, black").[2]
Portrayal in adaptations
In the defunct Middle-earth Role Playing game from the 1980s, Herumor is given an extended history. Fuinur is then his older brother. Tolkien, however, had nothing to do with writing this history.
Notes
- ↑ Based on the ordering of events there, he appears to have taken power in the Harad at some point after the Downfall of Númenor, dating him to S.A. 3319 or later. The order of events is not entirely clear, and an argument could be made that he lived slightly earlier, but he certainly belonged to the closing centuries of the Second Age.
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age"
- ↑ Paul Strack, "Q. Herumor m.", Eldamo - An Elvish Lexicon (accessed 25 November 2021)