the daughter of a stonemason, born in Ost Rimmon, Far Anorien. The quarry business held by her family did not suit her interests, preferring intellectual pursuits to the masonry trade, so she moved to Minas Tirith to study and become a scholar, leaving the managing of ledgers to her younger brother. 

In Minas Tirith she discovered her love for history, effectively specializing her field of study to the old way of life of Numenor and Gondor. Although she can be called a bookworm, she is not a frail little damsel. Her time spent in the quarry of Ost Rimmon and around hardy stonecutters shaped her both in body and spirit, she combines her search for knowledge with lengthy field trips around the realm, even going as far as the southern coasts and north into Rohan, where her grandmother comes from.