Nienor Níniel

Nienor (or Niënor)
Tolkien's legendarium character
Aliases	Níniel
Race	Men
Gender	Female
Book(s)	The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The Children of Húrin

Niënor, also known as Níniel (pronounced [ˈni.ɛnɔr ˈniːn.jɛl]), is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, appearing in the Narn i Chîn Húrin told in full in The Children of Húrin and briefly in The Silmarillion. Early versions of the story are Turambar and the Foalókë and The Lay of the Children of Húrin.

Nienor was the third child of Húrin Thalion, Lord of House of Hador, and Morwen Eledhwen of the House of Bëor. Her elder brother was Túrin, but her sister Lalaith died of a plague four years before Nienor's birth. Nienor "was tall, and her eyes were blue, her hair fine gold, the very likeness in woman's form of Húrin her father."

She was born in the beginning of the year following the disastrous Battle of Unnumbered Tears. By that time her father was taken captive during the battle and cursed together with his family by Morgoth the Enemy. His homeland of Dor-lómin was invaded by the Easterlings, who oppressed and enslaved the remnants of the Folk of Hador. Morwen then sent Túrin away to the Kingdom of Doriath, but did not venture the perilous road herself, being pregnant and proud.

Soon she gave birth to her daughter and called her Nienor, which means "Mourning" in Sindarin. Morwen was feared by the Easterlings and was not enslaved, but lived in poverty together with her daughter and a few old thanes, aided by Aerin. Nienor grew to a beautiful lady, and Lorgan, chief of the Easterlings, heard the rumour and plotted to take her as wife by force. The road to Doriath meanwhile was cleared of enemies by the prowess of Mormegil, a lord of Nargothrond, and when Nienor was 21 years old, she and her mother at last decided to journey to Doriath.

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