Tolkien OC Week Day 3: Background characters
Langhour, Substitute of the Chieftain of the Dúnedain: Unseen protector, unsung warrior, unrooted lover, unforgotten father
"Few now remember them ... Yet still some go wandering, sons of forgotten kings walking in loneliness, guarding from evil things folk that are heedless.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Part of the forgotten folk and an acquaintance to Aragorn, the future King of the Reunited Kingdom, in many battles and perils, Langhour became Aragorn’s substitute to overlook and organize the dealings of the remaining Dúnedain before and during the War of the Ring. After the free folks’ triumph over Sauron, Aragorn asked Langhour to continue his work in Arnor and help the people there rebuild the war-scarred lands so that the two realms would one day possibly become one once more.
When the Stewardaides Crisis shook Gondor after the War of the Ring, Langhour heard unsettling rumors of threats towards the King and traveled to his old home to see if he could help. In an hour of despair, he would become a most-needed savior to the King and his wife which only strengthened the bonds between Aragorn and him.
Burdened with his responsible tasks, there was otherwise little time for the Ranger to tend to his private life and personal desires. Yet at the height of the Stewardaides Crisis, at Aragorn’s court, Langhour also met the woman that would become the love of his life. The two of them pledged themselves to each other though with the deeply-rooted sadness of knowing, they would never have more than a few days at a stretch together before his calling in faraway lands would wait for Langhour again. This heavy destiny did not keep them from having a family together, though, and Langhour’s daughter, just like her father, would have a part yet to play in the last rearing up of Mordor decades after the war had ended.
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(Tales Untold - a “The Lord of the Rings” series
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