Fengel was the father of Indor and a great-grandfather of Tuor,[note 1] according to the early version of the legendarium in a prose fragment following The Book of Lost Tales.[1]
Etymology
The name Fengel seems to be in Noldorin, but its meaning is unclear.
An earlier name for the character was Eär.[1]
Genealogy
Other versions of the legendarium
Early legendarium
In the early legendarium, the name Fengel was also used for two different characters at some point.
In The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin, from c. 1920, Fengel replaced Peleg as the name of Tuor's father.[2]
The name Fengel also appears as the name of Tuor himself, in a fragment of an alliterative Lay of Eärendel from c. 1925.[3]
Later legendarium
In the later legendarium from The Lord of the Rings, Fengel was the name of the fifteenth king of Rohan.[4]
See also
- Hador, great-grandfather of Tuor in The Silmarillion
Notes
- ↑ Tuor is called Turgon in this text.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Shaping of Middle-earth, "I. Prose Fragments Following the Lost Tales: (i) [Turlin and the exiles of Gondolin]", pp. 4-5
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lays of Beleriand, "II. Poems Early Abandoned: The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin", p. 145
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lays of Beleriand, "II. Poems Early Abandoned: Fragment of an alliterative Lay of Eärendel", p. 141
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The House of Eorl", "The Kings of the Mark", p. 1,069