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Minnwen
Minnwen
| Name | Minnwen |
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| Status | Active |
| Occupation | sentinel of the ways between the elven houses |
| Age | Youthful |
| Race | Elf |
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| Residence | Wanderer |
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| Outward Appearance | This elf is more often heard using the Westron tongue than Sindarin, but her Telerin heritage might be guessed from her dark, dark hair and pale long-limbed appearance. She seems to have the energy and restlessness of youth but to lack the social graces so common to her race, or perhaps this is only the result of long, wary years spent travelling alone or in transient company. She's had both time and opportunity to observe the cultures of her environment. |
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Background
Minnwen's ancestors settled Edhellond late in the First Age, refugees from Beleriand which had been overrun by the forces of Morgoth (he who stole the silmarils, and former lord of Sauron). By the time of Minnwen's birth in about TA1600, the dwindling elven population in Edhellond consisted mainly of shipwright families who crafted the vessels bound West for the Undying Lands. The elves of Edhellond retained their ties with the Beleriand diaspora, but closer to home they also understood the mixed Mannish cultures of the region and did not hold themselves superior. They befriended the southern descendants of Númenór, particularly after the founding of Pelagir and Gondor late in the Second Age.
| Friends | Fellow watchers of the roads |
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| Relatives | None remaining |
| Rivals/Enemies | Orcs and other fell servants of the Enemy |
| Loves | The sea, the plains of Rhovanion |
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| Hates | The divisiveness of some of the elven houses |
| Motivation | To see the only remaining elf havens (Mirkwood, Lórien, Rivendell and Lindon) co-operate with one another and aid the other races against the growing evil |
| Quotes | "The ways of Men are not our ways ... and yet ... I would sooner see these lands — theirs and ours — free than quibble about ways." |
