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eya'rnil
The 'e' and 'a' sounds in Eärnil's name are pronounced as separate syllables, so rhymes with 'sayer' not 'sea'
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'Devoted to the sea'
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Eärnil II

Gondor’s penultimate King

Siriondil
Eärnil II
Eärnur

Kings of Gondor

The thirty-second and last but one of the Kings of Gondor, a descendant of Telumehtar Umbardacil who was granted the crown after the loss of King Ondoher and his sons, and Eärnil's own great victory in the Battle of the Camp.


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The date of Eärnil's birth appears only in The History of Middle-earth volume XII, The Peoples of Middle-earth. It cannot therefore be considered completely reliable.

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