arofili:men of middle-earth ✦ middle men ✦ headcanon disclaimer          Elmar was a woman of Númeno

arofili:men of middle-earth ✦ middle men ✦ headcanon disclaimer          Elmar was a woman of Númenor who fought in the conquering armies of Tári-Caumasarnë, the queen and chief general of Tar-Ancalimon. Her husband was Lindómo, a singer and healer who traveled throughout Middle-earth with the armies of Númenor, following his wife and tending to the wounded. Elmar and Lindómo had one child together, Lériel, who took after her father in face and voice.          Tári-Caumasarnë was a fierce and victorious general, but even she suffered losses from time to time. One such defeat took place in the valley of Ishmalog, where the native Men ambushed the Númenóreans in a narrow canyon and were slaughtered in heaps. Though Tári-Caumasarnë ordered a retreat when she saw the battle had turned ill, many were were taken captive and much bounty was reaped by the victorious Men of the Hills of Agar.          Lindómo and Lériel escaped with their general, and would indeed flee back to the Isle of Númenor from whence they came, but Elmar was taken as a war-prize by the warrior Buldar. He boasted that he brought back from the war as booty a wound, and a sword, and a woman: and thus he took Elmar for his wife, against her will, for she was beautiful and proud and after laying eyes upon her he desired no woman of his own folk.          Now the name “Elmar” meant “star-home” in Quenya, the tongue of the elves which the high Men of Númenor spoke, but in Tengat, the tongue of the Men of Agar, it meant “beautiful one,” and so Buldar allowed her to keep the name of her birth. In time Elmar learned Tengat herself, though not before she bore Buldar a son, Nogram, and she said to her captor that though she was grateful he had not slain her as most of his folk did their prisoners, she would never again be glad whilst she was sundered from her husband and daughter.          Buldar was unmoved by her declaration, warning her only that it would be vain for her to attempt escape, and reminding her of the violence her people had done unto his own in their bid to claim the lands of Agar. Yet Elmar held fast, reminding him that his people, the Gabar, had driven the Drûghu out of these lands long ago. She cursed the Gabar, Buldar and his house most of all, declaring that so long as she was kept against her will their fates would worsen, and that after her death one would arise from her line that would bring about the end of his people.           Despite this doom, Buldar paid his wife’s words little mind, and from her he had six more children: two sons, Dormog and Albar, and three daughters, Albatt and Balru and Dular. The youngest was named Hazad, for he was the seventh of Buldar’s offspring, though the eighth of Elmar’s, and of her descendants Elmar loved him most of all. Though Lériel her eldest remained ever in her mind and heart, Hazad was kind to her and loved her dearly, and remembered the Quenya songs she sung to him as his far-sundered sister had. In his voice she could recall her first life, and so long as she lived Hazad sang to her, even as illness claimed her life when he was yet a young man.          Hazad would remember his mother forever, even as he forgot the songs and words she had taught him, and through him the Doom of Elmar would be fulfilled in his own youngest son, though he knew not of her curse. -- source link

More pics about