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Middle-earth rulers
- ElrondElrond Half-elven stood beside Círdan at the moment Gil-galad fell, watched Isildur cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand, and then urged Isildur, right there…
- Balin (Middle-earth)The year Balin turned seven, the dragon Smaug sacked Erebor. Dwarves fled into exile while their father Fundin later died in the Battle of Azanulbizar.
- SarumanSaruman the White arrives in Middle-earth as one of five angelic emissaries, dispatched by the godlike Valar to challenge the dark lord Sauron without…
- DenethorDenethor II, the 26th ruling Steward of Gondor, dies by suicide in a burning city while the armies of Mordor hammer at the gates.
- ThéodenThéoden, King of Rohan and Lord of the Mark, first appears in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings as a ruler who has already lost himself.
- ÉomerÉomer appears at line 1959 of Beowulf as a king descended from Offa of Mercia. J. R. R. Tolkien had studied that poem at length, and he carried the name…
- AragornAragorn first appears in The Lord of the Rings as a scruffy, travel-worn stranger going by the name Strider, nursing a drink at an inn in Bree.
- SauronSauron is the main antagonist of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, a figure who rules the land of Mordor and covets dominion over all of Middle-earth.
- IsildurIsildur carried a stolen fruit through a royal court in disguise, bleeding from wounds he suffered escaping with it. That fruit was all that remained of…
- TreebeardGandalf calls Treebeard "the oldest living thing that still walks beneath the Sun upon this Middle-earth." That single description raises a question worth…
- GaladrielGaladriel is one of the most elaborately imagined figures in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings, appearing across The Lord of the Rings, The…