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The Ilkorindi were the Úmanyar in early versions of J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium.
History[]
The Ilkorindi did not travel with their race to Aman before the First Age and never lived in the city of Kôr, but instead established the kingdom of Doriath. Some of them, called Hisildi, preferred to separate from their kin, remaining in Koivië-néni and chosing the powerful wizard Tû as their king. The wise Hisildë Nuin discovered Men in Murmenalda before their Awakening. Finally Ermon and Elmir, the first two Men, awoke, witnessing the first sunrise in the West. Nuin taught them to speak, and for this reason he gained the nickname Father of Speech.[1] While the Men grew in stature and knowledge, Tû "faded before the Sun and hid in the bottomless caverns". In Palisor Elves and Men lived together in peace, but Fankil, a servant of Melko, alienated most of the Men against the Elves. Thus, when the War of Palisor between the Elves and the army of Melko, formed by Goblins and Nauglath, broke out, only the folk of Ermon remained faithful to the Elves. Nuin died in the war, but in the end Tareg, the leader of the Ilkorindi, came in to help his eastern kin, while the exiled Gnomes, guided by Nólemë, fought against Melko in the northwest of the Great Lands. After the war, Tareg and his people, along with Ermon and his folk, move westward reaching the river Sirion in the northwest of the Great Lands.[1] There they seal they alliance with the Gnomes at a "Feast of Reunion", and after that they fought together at Gorfalong in the Battle of Unnumbered Tears against Melko and his host of monsters and wicked Men.[1] Men called the Ilkorins who inhabited the Hisilómë before them "Shadow Folk".[2]
Behind the scenes[]
The Ilkorindi an Elven kindred only appear in The Book of Lost Tales[1][3] and their language, Ilkorin, was also was a temporary concept.
Etymology[]
The term Ilkorindi means "not of Kôr" in Middle Quenya, while Hisildi means "Twilight People, Dark Elves" in Early Quenya.[4]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The History of Middle-earth, Vol. I: The Book of Lost Tales Part One, chapter X: "Gilfanon's Tale: The Travail of the Noldoli and the Coming of Mankind"
- ↑ The History of Middle-earth, Vol. I: The Book of Lost Tales Part One, chapter V: "The Coming of the Elves and the Making of Kôr"
- ↑ The History of Middle-earth, Vol. I: The Book of Lost Tales Part One, chapter VIII: "The Tale of the Sun and Moon", pg. 175
- ↑ The History of Middle-earth, Vol. I: The Book of Lost Tales Part One, Index, pg. 283