Bór, also known as Bór the Faithful, was a leader of the Easterling Men of Beleriand in the late First Age.
Biography
In the Year of the Sun 463 of the First Age, when eight years had passed since the Dagor Bragollach, Bór led his people into Lothlann, and these Easterlings were worthy folk and tillers of the earth.[2] Bór had three sons named Borlad, Borlach, and Borthand, and they were welcomed by Maedhros the eldest son of Fëanor, who gave Bór and his followers land north of the March of Maedhros, and south of it. Thus Bór and his sons swore allegiance to Maedhros.[3] Eventually he and his people proved faithful to the Ñoldor and Edain unlike the treacherous people of Ulfang. Most of them were wiped out during the Nírnaeth Arnoediad, which took place in FA 472.[2][4]
Nonetheless, some Easterlings related to the faithful folk of Bór still remained in Eriador, and from those people came the most ancient Men that dwelt in the north in the Second Age and later.[2]
Etymology
The name Bór is Sindarin and means just the "Faithful". It was given him by the Elves because of his family's loyalty to them.[5]
Other versions of the legendarium
In another version of the account, one of Bór's sons was Blodren, a traitor among the outlaws of Túrin. Bór was the replacement of an earlier character, the Gnome Ban, present in earlier drafts given in The Lays of Beleriand.[6]
In the appendix of The Lost Road and Other Writings it is stated that Bór (then called Bor) was born in the year 120.[1] According to The Earliest Annals of Beleriand, the Nirnaeth Arnoediad occurred in the year 172,[7] which means that both dates are three hundred years behind chronicles of the later legendarium.
Genealogy
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Translations
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| Chinese (Hong Kong) | 波爾 |
| Russian | Бор |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The History of Middle-earth, Vol. V: The Lost Road and Other Writings, Appendix I: The Genealogies
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The History of Middle-earth, Vol. XI: The War of the Jewels, The Grey Annals
- ↑ The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Chapter XVIII: "Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin"
- ↑ The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Chapter XX: "Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad"
- ↑ The History of Middle-earth, Vol. V: The Lost Road and Other Writings, The Etymologies
- ↑ The History of Middle-earth, Vol. IV: The Shaping of Middle-earth, The Earliest Silmarillion and The Quenta
- ↑ The History of Middle-earth, Vol. IV: The Shaping of Middle-earth, The Earliest Annals of Beleriand