Erestor

Erestor is an elf of Rivendell and chief counselor of Elrond's household. Erestor was present at the Council of Elrond, where he suggested two lines of action. The first of these was that the One Ring should be sent to Tom Bombadil, there to be kept safe and hidden, but when this was discouraged he said that the Ring must either be hidden or unmade, and the latter path was one "of despair".

After the War of the Ring, he traveled with most of Elrond's household to Gondor to witness the wedding of Arwen and Aragorn, both of whom he must have known from Rivendell.

Because so little of his history is explained in canon, he is a popular character in fanfictions, as writers need not worry about the constraints of what has already been written about him.