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| When King [[Ondoher]] led his army to face the [[Wainriders]] who threatened [[Gondor]], he commanded the army's centre with his son and heir [[Artamir]]. The soldiers of the right wing were under the command of the King's nephew [[Minohtar]], while the left wing were under the captaincy of the Adrahil of [[Dol Amroth]].
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| [[Ondoher]]'s enterprise came to a devastating end: he was surprised by the [[Wainriders]], and his forces were overwhelmed. Adrahil's soldiers, however, were shielded from the attack and survived it. [[Ondoher]] and [[Artamir]] had both been killed, and [[Minohtar]] took charge, sending Adrahil south into Ithilien to form a defensive line from [[Cair Andros]] to the [[Ephel Dúath]].
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| Adrahil's story was never completed, so his fate is uncertain. We know that the [[Wainriders]] eventually broke through [[Minohtar]]'s more northerly defence, but whether they penetrated to Adrahil's position is unknown. If he survived the initial [[Wainriders|Wainrider]] assault, it seems likely that Adrahil would have joined with [[Eärnil]] in his counter-attack, seeing the ultimate defeat of the Wainriders at the [[Battle of the Camp]].
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| Adrahil's place in history is difficult to define: he seems to have been an ancestor of Prince [[Imrahil]] of [[Dol Amroth]] (especially since he shares his name with [[Imrahil]]'s father). If he belonged to this line, though, it seems strange that he lived more than a century before [[Galador]], who is specifically named as the first Prince of [[Dol Amroth]]. The dating is consistent with Adrahil being the father of [[Imrazôr]], and hence [[Galador]]'s grandfather, but the evidence on this point is slim.
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