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Finduilas, the Lady of Dol Amroth, and wife of Denethor II, the Steward of Gondor (T.A. 2950 –???) - Finduilas and her Family [1 of 3]

Finduilas was born June 2950 of the Third Age to Lady Ilmr and Prince Adrahil II of Dol Amroth. Ilmr would recount the day of Finduilas’ birth as stifling and unforgivably hot until the moment of her daughter’s entrance into the world, and they were greeted by the smell of the sea and the cool air of the mountains from the window of her mother’s bedroom.

Finduilas was the second child and daughter born to Ilmr and Adrahil, after her elder sister Ivriniel (T.A 2947-???), and second eldest sister of Imrahil (T.A 2955-???), the youngest and last of Ilmr and Adrahil’s children who was named after both mother and father.

Finduilas shared a close kinship with her siblings. Though she was closer to Ivriniel because they shared only a slight gap in age, neither sister would allow their connection to their little brother to languish, for to blame him for the lateness of his arrival in the House of Dol Amroth would be unfair. When Imrahil was old enough to play with them outside, they spent hours on the beach and ran about the harbor(s) until they were forced to go home.

Ilmr and Adrahil’s children were perhaps closer in likeness to Adrahil’s elven kin, the Silvan Elves, than the Númenoreans. Fair hair that shined like silver in the moonlight and eyes green as jewels and blue as the sea; Ilmr daughters were oft compared to Mithrellas, handmaiden of Nimrodel, and wife of Imrazor. How reliable the comparison was, however, was something Finduilas contemplated every now and again. There were no true portraits of the elf maid, only a rough sketch that was faded and protected too late and she couldn’t see much of a likeness between them.

Ilmr was the daughter of archivists, and often preoccupied herself with the history and lore of Dol Amroth. She was rarely outside of the company of her mother and father until she met Adrahil. Following her marriage to Adrahil, a Prince of Dol Amroth and namesake of Adrahil of Dor-en-Ernil, Ilmr, who’d taken up the task of her parents, who later passed in 2955 the Third Age, brought her children into the tradition.

The years spent under their mother’s tutelage was an essential part of their education in Gondor, and it was not long before their places in the political and education world in Dol Amroth were made clear to them. Imrahil preoccupied himself with matters of military history, knowing he would eventually lead the Swan Knights of Dol Amroth (or so he hoped); Ivriniel saw to the restoration and preservation of artifacts left in the care of Dol Amroth’s dynastic leaders; Finduilas remained enraptured by the dusty halls of the archives, for there was no one subject that its walls were not learned in.

Of the siblings, Finduilas structured her life around that of order and straight lines. She hated messes and was often easily irritated if something was knocked out of order. Her family was undaunted by the way information piled up against walls and curved around the floor from disuse and wandering hands that misplaced books and scrolls, but Finduilas would see the archive restored to some semblance of cleanliness and order. From her early twenties well into her sixties, Finduilas worked tirelessly on the reorganization of Dol Amroth’s libraries.

As a young woman, Finduilas’ long face and sharp features were considered a terrible sort of beauty. She smiled little outside of the company of her family (and would not be hassled to do otherwise), and watched others in such a way that many in Dol Amroth believed became they became bewitched and lost their good sense, and thus could not lie to her even if they wanted to. The idea made the Finduilas and Ivriniel laugh and it was decided that the malign rumors of her bewitching gaze sprung from guilty hearts that were terrible at lying to begin with. Imrahil would argue in the favor of the rumor, claiming his sister did in fact have a way of rattling man and woman to the very core with her eyes. Others simply thought Finduilas unkind, and never broached an attempt to correct their assumption otherwise.

The passing of age made many less preoccupied with her appearance, though the downside of her graying hair and softer features meant that many who were where she was once was in age believed it was a simple thing to manipulate her. Perhaps that was when her temper began to shorten and fray. It was nothing short of frustrating for the Lady of Dol Amroth (and Minas Tirith), to be treated like a fool. Unconsciously, she overcompensated in the demonstration of her knowledge much of the time and was prone to losing her temper far easier than when she was a young woman.

The upside, of course, was that she no longer had to mind her tone as much as she did when she was expected to both put on airs and raise two young men (already short tempered and smart-mouthed) without swearing in front of them.

Alyssa Sutherland and Daphne Selfe as Finduilas

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Daphne Selfe (1928) ❧  Es inglesa, ¡y la modelo más longeva del mundo! | Perfil

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Daphne Selfe, 1949

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Daphne Selfe in 1949, when she began modeling. “We were taught manners, how to approach people, go for a job, and how to get in and out of a car without showing your knickers,” she said / via Selfe family

With her slender 5-foot-7 figure and high cheekbones, Ms. Selfe retained well into her senior years the striking appearance that had first won her modeling jobs in her 20s. For a while, she appeared in commercials for Kellogg’s cornflakes and modeled for the sculptor Barbara Hepworth. She was also cast in dozens of bit parts in movies, including James Bond films like “Octopussy” (1984) and “A View to a Kill” (1985).