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Feveren

Feveren Tawardil of Harlindon

Name Feveren
Status
Active
Occupation
Age
Young (only recently deemed full-grown)
Race
Elf
Residence
Eryn Milbar in Harlindon, but he is now wandering the Westlands
Kinship
Noss-e-Laegrim
Outward Appearance

   At first glance, he seems akin to any of the Elven-kindred you have seen,1 for he is fair of face and dark-haired; slender, lithe, and light on his feet. But looking closer, you mark that he is somewhat less in stature and girth than is common for one of the Firstborn. Also, he has a merry, carefree air about him and an aspect of unworldliness; thus you deem that he is still young, perhaps even not yet full-grown.2

   His rustic garb is of the colours of the forest, his brow is unadorned, and his feet are unshod; he is girt with neither blade nor bow, but bears instead a stout staff of elm for a walking stick. His honey-hued skin suggests Nandorin descent and you guess then that he is a Silvan Elf,3 but why he has forsaken his secluded woodland home, you cannot say.

 

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1. Assuming that you have indeed seen folk of the various Elven clans that grew from the Sundering of the Elves.

 

2. "Not until the fiftieth year did the Eldar attain the stature and shape in which their lives would afterwards endure, and for some a hundred years would pass before they were full-grown."
      - Morgoth's Ring, 'The Laws and Customs Among the Eldar'

 

3. In truth, the Silvan Elves (Tawarwaith) were descendants of the Nandor who lingered in the Vales of Anduin during the Great Journey, and thus denote either the Galadhrim or the Elves of Mirkwood, not the Nandor who entered Beleriand and became the Green-elves of Ossiriand. But to the eyes of the common beholder, they might appear alike (though not to other Elves, no doubt.)

 


"It is one with this gift of freedom that the children of Men dwell only a short space in the world alive, and are not bound to it, and depart soon whither the Elves know not. Whereas the Elves remain until the end of days, and their love of the Earth and all the world is more single and more poignant therefore, and as the years lengthen ever more sorrowful. For the Elves die not till the world dies, unless they are slain or waste in grief..."

   - The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Beginning of Days"

Background

 

Harlindon
                                                                                                             © Mark Fisher

"In Ossiriand dwelt the Green-elves, in the protection of their rivers; for after Sirion Ulmo loved Gelion above all the waters of the western world. The woodcraft of the Elves of Ossiriand was such that a stranger might pass through their land from end to end and see none of them. They were clad in green in spring and summer, and the sound of their singing could be heard even across the waters of Gelion; wherefore the Noldor named that country Lindon, the land of music, and the mountains beyond they named Ered Lindon, for they first saw them from Ossiriand."
 -  The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of Beleriand and its Realms"

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"In the beginning of this age many of the High Elves still remained. Most of these dwelt in Lindon west of the Ered Luin; but before the building of the Barad-dûr many of the Sindar passed eastward, and some established realms in the forests far away, where their people were mostly Silvan Elves."
      - The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Second Age"

 

Feveren Tawardil

"Feveren Tarwardil" rendered in Tengwar

.: Feveren Tawardil :.

   It is told that in the War of Wrath the fair lands of Beleriand were laid waste and sank beneath the deep waters of Belegaer, and Ossiriand (that had of old been named Lindon by his kin) was rent asunder and the mighty walls of Ered Luin were broken. Into that great gulf swept the sea, and by a new course the River Lhûn flowed into the firth; and the havens of Mithlond were raised by the folk of Gil-galad upon its shores, whence the First-born can still follow the Straight Road by ship and return to their kindred in Aman, the Blessed Realm, beyond the encircling seas.
   And in the Second Age of the world, long ago, many of the Eldar still dwelt in Lindon, unwilling yet to forsake Beleriand of old where they had lived and laboured long. But there were those who crossed the Ered Luin and passed eastwards into the inner lands, many of whom were survivors of Doriath and Ossiriand; and they established realms among the Silvan Elves in the woods and mountains of Middle-earth.

   The forebears of Feveren were Green-elves of Ossiriand who long abode within its elm-woods aforetime, and who lingered in Harlindon ever after. His mother and father were both born in those green-shadowed woodlands, and there in Eryn Milbar Feveren was also begotten in the twilight of the Third Age.
   He was a fanciful elf-child, and all his young life he hearkened to songs and tales of the Elder Days; thus a yearning was kindled in his heart to behold these far distant realms of his kindred, ere his kin take ship over the Uttermost Sea. And now, being but lately deemed full-grown by the elders of his clan who, sensing perhaps a change in the tides of the world, granted him leave to fare forth...

 

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"Feveren Tarwardil" rendered in Cirth

Etymology:

Father-name:

Tawardil: S. tawar ("forest") + ndîl ("friend")

Mother-name:

Feveren: fe (Nandorin rendering of Q. fëa, S. fae = "incarnate spirit, soul")
                + S. meren ("festive/gay/joyous") cf. 'Faemheren' in Doriathrin

Chosen name:

Methlegel: S. methen ("end/final") + Nan. Legel (S. Laegel = "Green-elf")

Little is known of the naming lore of the Úmanyar. However, in her essay Elven Naming Traditions of Middle-earth on Realelvish.net, Fiona contends that:

"The Elves of Beleriand are the ones most likely to have naming traditions echoing the traditions in Valinor [...] Therefore, when Doriath was conquered and the Sindar fled deeper into Middle-earth to live in the lands of other Telerin Elves, they brought these strong traditions and their language with them. Since the language was adopted, it doesn’t seem too strange that the naming traditions would come along too."

Eryn Milbar in Harlindon (LotRO map)

Eryn Milbar

"Beloved Forest Home"
         eryn - S. forest, wood of trees.
         milbar - S. dear home, beloved dwelling [place] (Q. mélamar)

... “home” in its emotional uses as the place of one’s birth, or the familiar places from which one was separated by journeys of necessity, or driven out by war.
- J.R.R.Tolkien (PE17/164)

 

Scribblings

.: Notes :.

Concerning Green-elvish Language and Writing
Concerning Age in Relation to Appearance

Calendar:

The Rivendell Reckoning Simulation is used, synchronizing the 1941-1942 Moon phases with Third Age 3018-19. Moon phases are based on the following:

"Either while the making of Time-scheme I was in progress or at some later point my father wrote at the head of the first page of it: Moons are after 1941–2 + 6 days. He changed this to + 5 days, and added: thus Full Moon Jan. 2 is Jan. 7."
   - The Treason of Isengard, “The Great River”

It should also be noted that:

"For ritual rather than practical purposes the Eldar observed a week or enquië of six days..."
   - The Lord of the Rings, Appendix D, "The Calendars"

Nern Feveren (Tales of Feveren)
Nern Feveren

 


"... little is now known of the Silvan Elvish. The Silvan Elves had invented no forms of writing, and those who learned this art from the Sindar wrote in Sindarin as well as they could."
      -  - Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth, "Appendix A, The Silvan Elves and Their Speech"


Tengwar and Cirth transcriptions courtesy of Glǽmscribe

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.: Alas, Feveren is unavailable for RP :.

 

"Feveren Tarwardil" in untidy handwritten Tengwar

Growing Pains
Feveren at 6 (III 2972) 12 (III 2978), 18 (III 2984), 30 (III 2996), and 52 (III 3018) years of age.

 

Friends
Faethurin ("Fethurin")
Beech and oak and elm
Birds and beasts
Glavror and Gwedal
Relatives
Father:
Gladlin Dínalagos
Mother:
Gledhril Silivreneth
Rivals/Enemies
Naught thus far!
(Though he deems Golphedinir an unfriend!)
Loves
Glad greenwoods;
Singing streams;
Glittering starlight;
The silver Moon.
Hates
Despoilers of all that which grows and is glad;
Cruelty and greed
Motivation
To behold the Elven-realms of old that lie beyond Ered Lindon.
Quotes

Feveren's Adventures

Interregnum: Double Trouble (Iavas, III 2978) 3 days 17 hours ago
The Gateway to the East 2 weeks 6 days ago
The Counsel of Master Dorongúr 1 month 1 week ago
Another Duillond Decision 1 month 3 weeks ago
Last Night in Thorin's Gate 2 months 3 weeks ago
Feveren's Adventures

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