Minastan
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Minastan | |
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Gondorian | |
Biographical Information | |
Location | Gondor |
Language | Westron |
Birth | After T.A. 1516 |
Family | |
House | House of Anárion |
Parentage | Minardil |
Siblings | Telemnar |
Children | Tarondor |
Physical Description | |
Gender | Male |
Minastan was the second son of King Minardil of Gondor.
History[edit | edit source]
In T.A. 1636[1] Minastan's elder brother Telemnar had sat on their father's throne for just two years when he died with all his heirs in the Great Plague.[2] Minastan had also died by this time - perhaps he too met his end in the Plague - but he left behind a surviving heir, Tarondor, who became the first King of a new line.[3]
Etymology[edit | edit source]
Minastan is Quenya. Its meaning is not glossed, but as Paul Strack explains, it might mean "Smith of the Tower" and be a compound of a shortened form minas of minasse ("tower") and the suffixal form -tan of tamo ("smith, builder").[4]
Genealogy[edit | edit source]
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Third Age"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Númenorean Kings", "Gondor and the Heirs of Anárion"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Númenorean Kings", "The Realms in Exile", "The Southern Line: Heirs of Anarion"
- ↑ Paul Strack, "Q. Minastan m.", Eldamo - An Elvish Lexicon (accessed 28 July 2021)