Encyclopedia of Arda: Bëor

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(Balan)

Baran

Belen¹

Leader of the first Men to cross the Blue Mountains into Beleriand in the First Age. He became a servant of Finrod Felagund, and through his son Baran founded one of the Three Houses of the Edain.

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Bëor's elder son Baran was the ancestor of some of the great heroes of Middle-earth, including Túrin Turambar. His younger son Belen was much less prominent (to the extent that he doesn't appear in any canonical source). Through the marriage of Baran's descendant Barahir to Belen's descendant Emeldir, the two lines were merged, and such characters as Beren, Eärendil, Elrond and even Aragorn could thus claim descent from both the sons of Bëor.

Bëor

Father of the First House of the Edain

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