In J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, Amrod and Amras were the youngest twin sons of Fëanor. From their mother Nerdanel they inherited red hair, instead of Fëanor's black. J. R. R. Tolkien in 1916. ... A map of the Northwestern part of Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age, courtesy of the Encyclopedia of Arda. ... A legendarium is a book or series of books consisting of a collection of legends. ... Amras is a fictional character from J.R.R. Tolkiens universe of Middle-earth; he and his twin brother Amrod were the youngest sons of Fëanor. ... Fëanor is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth universe, and central to Tolkiens mythology as told in The Silmarillion. ... Nerdanel is a fictional character from the fantasy universe of J.R.R. Tolkiens Middle-earth. ... Fëanor is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth universe, and central to Tolkiens mythology as told in The Silmarillion. ...

Amrod's father name in Quenya is Pityafinwë, "Little Finwë". His mother name is Ambarussa, "Top-russet", and this refers to his hair. His younger twin Amras was also called Ambarussa, and they both answered to the name. Amras however was killed at the burning of the ships in Losgar. Quenya is one of the languages spoken by the Elves in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. ... In J. R. R. Tolkiens fictional world of Middle-earth, Losgar was the place of the burning of the ships of the Teleri by Fëanor, at the mouth of the Firth of Drengist. ...

Amrod became a hunter, who held the southern lands of the March of Maedhros. Amrod survived most of the War of the Jewels, but eventually fell in the Kinslaying of Sirion. In J. R. R. Tolkiens legendarium, Maedhros (Y.T. ? – Y.S. 587) was the first son of Fëanor and Nerdanel. ... In J. R. R. Tolkiens The Silmarillion, there were many battles between the Elves of Beleriand and the forces Morgoth. ... The Kinslaying at Alqualondë is an episode related to J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth. ... In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, the Sirion was a river of Middle-earth in the First Age, the principal river of Beleriand. ...

Other versions of the legendarium

In the published Silmarillion Amrod only appears together with his twin brother Amras, but in late writings which were left out of the edited Silmarillion by Christopher Tolkien the story of Amras' death at Losgar appeared. For this reason wherever both Amrod and Amras appear in the published material it should be read as Amrod alone. The Silmarillion is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkiens works, edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher, with the assistance of fantasy fiction writer Guy Gavriel Kay. ... Christopher Reuel Tolkien (born November 21, 1924) is best known as the third son of author J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), and as the editor of much of his fathers posthumously published work. ...

See also

• House of Finwë