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Dirhael was the son of the ranger Talion and Ioreth, and was himself a ranger of Gondor.
He does not appear in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, but only in the video game Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor.
Biography[]
Dirhael was born in the late Third Age, and grew up at the Black Gate, where he became a ranger like his father, Talion. Due to the frontier nature of their home, he was accustomed to a disciplinary lifestyle.
During Sauron's initial attack on the Black Gate, marking the beginning of his reconquest of Mordor, Dirhael fought against Sauron's uruks along with his father and the other rangers stationed at the gates. However, he was captured by the Tower of Sauron along with his family, and was with them afterwards murdered by the Black Hand as part of a dark ritual.
Though Dirhael was slain, Talion was reanimated by the spirit of the elf-lord Celebrimbor, and was thus enabled to avenge his wife and son.