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Dates
Uncertain, but known to be extant in the years before I 1161
Race
Division
Culture
Family
Settlements
Known to have dwelt at one time in Nevrast, and apparently later in Gondolin
Pronunciation
ara'nweh
Meaning
'Noble one'

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Aranwë

The father of Voronwë the mariner

Aranwë
Unnamed
wife2
Voronwë

An Elf of the House of Fingolfin. Though not much is known about him for sure, he seems to have been a nobleman of Gondolin (at least, his name means 'noble one', and his son Voronwë came from Turgon's Hidden City).


Notes

1

Aranwë is only ever mentioned indirectly as the father of Voronwë, so we have very little information from which to derive his dates. We can definitely place him in Nevrast before I 116 (because his son Voronwë was born there, and Turgon's people left that land in I 116). On that basis, he most likely originated in Aman, and accompanied Turgon into Nevrast when the Noldor returned to Middle-earth. We can probably take it for granted that he later followed Turgon to settle in Gondolin (and indeed Christopher Tolkien lists him as an 'Elf of Gondolin' in the index to Unfinished Tales). Whether he survived the Fall of Gondolin in I 510 is not known.

2

The wife of Aranwë is never given a name, but it is known that she was a Grey-elf who belonged to the kin of Círdan the Shipwright. Círdan was lord of the coastland regions of the Falas, directly southward of Aranwë's old home in Nevrast, a fact that further reinforces the idea that Aranwë himself had a degree of noble blood.

See also...

Aranwion

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