There is no trace of the death of Amrod at Losgar in the published The Silmarillion, as it was a very late idea by Tolkien, omitted by Christopher Tolkien as he did not at the time see how it could be incorporated into the primary text of The Silmarillion. His name "Umbarto" in this version of the story is described as a prophetic name, as Amrod was accidentally killed in the swan ships of the Teleri, when his father ordered them to be burnt at Losgar. In The Peoples of Middle-earth, there is a short draft of a story in which Amrod dies before his father. Nevertheless, both twins called each other Ambarussa. His father, disturbed by it, changed it to Ambarto. His mother name was originally Ambarussa ("top-russet", referring to his hair), the same as his brother Amras, but Fëanor insisted that the twins ought to have different names and Nerdanel later called him Umbarto, "the Fated". Thematic links have been drawn between the death of Amrod and Amras, and the fostering of the twins Elrond and Elros by Maglor after that battle.Īmrod's father name in Quenya is Telufinwë, "Last Finwë", for he was the last of Fëanor's sons.
In this last battle, he and Amras were both killed. Amrod later joined his brothers in the attack on Dior and the final destruction of Doriath, and then in the assault on the Mouths of Sirion. Their location is described as further south than their brothers, Maedhros, Maglor and Caranthir. Surviving the burning of the ships at Losgar, he and Amras lived as vassals of their brother Maedhros in East Beleriand. In The Silmarillion, Amrod is always found alongside Amras. From their mother Nerdanel they inherited red hair, instead of Fëanor's black. He was the youngest son of Fëanor and the younger twin of Amras. Tolkien's legendarium, Amrod ( IPA: ) is a fictional character. ‹ The template Infobox character is being considered for merging. › Amrod
Tolkien, then a young professor, sat in his home office correcting examinations: "One of the candidates had mercifully left one of the pages with no writing on it, which is the best thing that can possibly happen to an examiner, and I wrote on it: 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' Names always generate a story in my mind: eventually I thought I'd better find out what hobbits were like." (Seen here is Tolkien's original cover.) His most exacting criticĬhristopher Tolkien once interrupted his father. The Hobbit was born one summer afternoon, likely in 1930. Douglas Anderson tells how, with "the superiority of a ten-year-old," the boy wrote: "This book … is good and should appeal to all children between the ages of 5 and 9." Rayner Unwin (1925-2000) went on to become Tolkien's principal publisher. This he often did, paying Rayner a standard fee of one shilling per report.
To help assess its popularity with children, he gave the manuscript to his youngest son, Rayner, for his opinion.
In 1936, publisher Stanley Unwin was deciding whether to publish The Hobbit. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field) have a very simple sense of humour (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome) I go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking I like and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. In 1958, Tolkien wrote the following in a letter to a fan, Deborah Webster: "I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size). More Newsletters Tolkien: "I am in fact a Hobbit"