Caranthir

Caranthir ( Cranthir in the first versions of the Silmarillion ) is a fictitious character, created by J.R.R Tolkien. It is the fourth wire of Fëanor and Nerdanel, and hardest and more carried of them, from where its nickname of “Caranthir the Dark one”.

It was born with Valinor from time from the Arbres. His/her father called it Morifinwë (“black Finwë”), shortened in Moryo. His/her mother gave him for name Carnistir (“With the red face”), name which was adapted in Sindarin in the form Caranthir .

Like his brothers, it chooses to accompany his father in exile with Formenos then in Ground by the Medium, and was bound by the oath which forced them to find by all the means the stolen Silmarils with Fëanor by Morgoth. This oath led the seven brothers to carry out a war against Morgoth, like against their own race, the Elfes, and precipitated their ruin.

With the First Age, Caranthir establishes its kingdom in Thargelion, in the east of the Beleriand, so named area Dor Caranthir (“country of Caranthir”); it remained him even on banks of the lake Helevorn. The entry of the Men in Beleriand, it allowed to the people Haleth to be established in the south of its grounds, and saved them even attack of Orque S. It offered to Haleth, sovereign of these people, to become his vassal, but this one refused and continued its voyage towards the west, to the forest of Brethil where it and its people was established.

After the battle of Dagor Bragollach, he flees towards the south and took refuge with Amon Ereb at the sides of his brothers. Like his/her brothers Celegorm and Curufin, Caranthir died during the second Fratricidal Massacre - the attack which the Wire of Fëanor against Menegroth conducted, in order to take with Dior, wire of Lúthien and Beren, the Silmaril created by their father.

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