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This article is about the Man of Gondor. For the Prince of Dol Amroth, see Adrahil II.

Adrahil I was a Prince of Gondor who lived around TA 1944 in the land of Belfalas.

Biography[]

Adrahil was born sometime before TA 1944 and was of traceable Númenórean lineage. He served King Ondoher of Gondor as a general during the Wars of the Wainriders in the year 1944.[3]

Adrahil was descended from a Númenórean noble house that settled in Belfalas in the Second Age.[4] Because of this, it is assumed he was an ancestor of Imrazôr, Galador and the Princes of Dol Amroth.[5]

When King Ondoher led his army to face the Wainriders who threatened Gondor, Adrahil commanded the army's left wing. The soldiers of the right wing were under the command of the King's nephew Minohtar, while the centre was commanded by the king himself and his heir Artamir.

Ondoher's enterprise came to a devastating end: he was surprised by the Wainriders near the Black Gate, and his forces were overwhelmed. Adrahil's soldiers, however, were shielded from the attack and survived it. Ondoher and Artamir had both been killed, and Minohtar took charge, sending orders to Adrahil to withdraw with both his own command of the left wing and those at the rear of the right wing who had not yet been engaged.

Adrahil withdrew south into Ithilien to form a defensive line from Cair Andros to the Ephel Dúath. With these forces, he was to cover the approaches to Minas Anor. Adrahil at once messaged Eärnil to inform him of the disaster and of the position of the retreating Northern Army.

Adrahil's fate is uncertain; the Wainriders overwhelmed Minohtar's rearguard defence, but whether they penetrated to Adrahil's position is unknown. If he survived the initial assault, it seems likely that Adrahil would have joined with Eärnil in his counter-attack, seeing the ultimate defeat of the Wainriders at the Battle of the Camp.[6]

In other versions[]

In the chapter "Cirion and Eorl" of Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, Adrahil is referred to as "Adrahil of Dol Amroth". However, since Dol Amroth would not be named as such until after the drowning of Amroth in TA 1981 this must be an anachronistic error on the part of the chronicler.[7]

Translations[]

Foreign Language Translated name
Amharic 1 አድራሂል
Arabic أدريهيل الأول
Armenian Ադրահիլ I
Belarusian Cyrillic Адрахіл I
Bengali প্রথম আদ্রাহিল
Bulgarian Cyrillic Адрахил I
Chinese 阿德希尔一世
Dari آدرهیل یکم
Georgian ადრაჰილი I
Greek Άδραχιλ Α΄
Gujarati પ્રથમ આદ્રાહિલ
Hebrew אדראהיל הראשון
Hindi अद्राहिल प्रथम
Japanese アドラヒル 1世
Kannada ಪ್ರಥಮ ಅದ್ರಾಹಿಲ್
Kazakh І Адрахил (Cyrillic) I Adrahïl (Latin)
Korean 아드라힐 1세
Kyrgyz Cyrillic Адраhил I
Macedonian Cyrillic Адрахил I
Maori Adrahil te Tuatahi
Marathi पहिला अद्राहिल
Mongolian Cyrillic Адрахил I
Pashto ادرهیل ۱
Persian ادراهیل اول
Punjabi ਪਹਿਲਾ ਅਦਰਾਹਿਲ
Russian Адрахиль I
Sanskrit आद्रहिल् १
Serbian Адрахил I (Cyrillic) Adrahil I (Latin)
Sinhalese පළමු ආද්‍රහිල්
Tajik Cyrillic Адрахил I
Tamil முதல் அதர்ஹில்
Telugu ప్రధమ ఆద్రాహిల్
Thai อาดราฮิล 1
Ukrainian Cyrillic Адрагіл I
Urdu آدراہیل پہلا
Yiddish אַדראַהיל דער ערשטער


References[]

  1. Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, Introduction, Part Three, II: "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan"
  2. Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, Introduction, Part Three, II: "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan"
  3. Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, Introduction, Part Three, II: "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan"
  4. Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, Introduction, Part Three, II: "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan"
  5. Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, Introduction, Part Three, II: "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan"
  6. Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, Introduction, Part Three, II: "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan"
  7. Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, Introduction, Part Three, II: "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan", Note 39.
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