Aratan

Aratan was the second son of Isildur, and a brother of Valandil.
==Biography==
Aratan did not take part in the invasion of Mordor or the Siege of Barad-dûr. Instead, his father sent he and his brother Ciryon to Minas Ithil with a force in case Sauron should break or escape the siege through Cirith Dúath, and assail the Dúnedain before he was yet defeated.Unfinished Tales, Part Three: The Third Age, I: "The Disaster of the Gladden Fields", Notes He like his brothers Elendur and Ciryon, were slain at the Gladden Fields.The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B: The Tale of Years (Chronology of the Westlands), "The Third Age"The Silmarillion, Of the Rings of Power and the Third AgeUnfinished Tales, Part Three: The Third Age, I: "The Disaster of the Gladden Fields"
==Etymology==
The name Aratan is a Quenya word that translates into the Common Speech as "Royal Man". Its second element atan is the root of Atani, the ancient Quenya word for mankind.
==Portrayals in adaptations==
In The Lord of the Rings Online, the three elder sons of Isildur appear in an extended flashback set during the Siege of Barad-dûr in the year S.A. 3440. However, because the game's license does not cover the works in which they are named, they are referred to only by their war-time aliases, meant to hide their kinship with the King. Aratan uses the name "Ornaher" as his alias.
==Earlier versions of the legendarium==
The forerunning name for the character Aratan was Eärnur.The History of Middle-earth, Vol. XII: The Peoples of Middle-earth, Index
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Amharic 	አራታን
Arabic 	أراتان
Armenian 	Արատան
Assamese 	আৰতন
Belarusian Cyrillic	Аратан
Bengali 	আরতন
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Аратан
Cambodian 	អារ៉ាតាន់
Chinese (Hong Kong)	亞爾坦
Dari 	آراتان
Georgian 	არატანი
Greek 	Αρατάν
Gujarati 	અરાતન
Hebrew 	אראטאן
Hindi 	अरातन
Japanese 	アラタン
Kannada 	ಅರತನ್
Kazakh 	Аратан (Cyrillic) Aratan (Latin)
Korean 	아라탄
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Аратан
Macedonian Cyrillic	Аратан
Marathi 	अरतन
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Аратан
Nepalese 	अरातान
Odia 	ଆରତାନ୍
Persian 	آراتان
Punjabi 	ਅਰਾਤਨ
Russian 	Аратан
Serbian 	Аратан (Cyrillic) Aratan (Latin)
Sinhalese 	අරටන්
Tajik Cyrillic 	Аратан
Tamil 	அரட்டன்
Tatar 	Аратан
Telugu 	అరాతన్
Thai 	อาราทัน
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Аратан
Urdu 	اراتان
Uzbek 	Аратан (Cyrillic) Aratan (Latin)
Yiddish 	אַראַטאַן
==References==
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