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a'raveerr (where 'rr' indicates that the final r should be pronounced)
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Ara- denotes nobility; -vir is uncertain
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Aravir

The fourth Chieftain of the Dúnedain

Chieftains of the Dúnedain

The son of Aranuir, who led the Dúnedain of the North during the closing years of the Watchful Peace. It was Aravir, it seems, who devised the name 'Aragorn'; he gave it to his son, who succeeded him as Chieftain Aragorn I. The Aragorn of the The Lord of the Rings was his distant descendant, Aragorn II of the line of Isildur.


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The date of Aravir'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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