Halbarad

Halbarad was a Dúnadan Ranger of the North, and one of Aragorn's comrades during the weeks leading up to Sauron's final demise.
== Biography ==
Halbarad was among the Rangers who guarded the Shire in the years prior to the War of the Ring. He said of the Hobbits, "A little people, but of great worth are the Shire-folk. Little do they know of our long labor for the safekeeping of their borders, and yet I grudge it not."
In response to a message sent to Rivendell by Galadriel, Halbarad led the Grey Company, comprised of 30 Rangers, south to the aid of their kinsman Aragorn. Aragorn rejoiced at their coming, and Théoden remarked thus; "It is well! If these kinsmen be in any way like yourself, my Lord Aragorn, thirty such knights will be a strength that cannot be counted by heads."
With them also rode Elladan and Elrohir, the sons of Elrond. They caught up with Aragorn near the Fords of Isen in Rohan in the early hours of March 6, TA 3019. Halbarad brought Aragorn a message from Arwen as well as a standard made by her, which Aragorn asked Halbarad to keep for him for a while.
Halbarad accompanied Aragorn to a chamber high in the Hornburg where Aragorn looked into the palantír and revealed himself to Sauron. That morning Aragorn decided to take the Paths of the Dead, down the Dimholt Road, under the White Mountains and Halbarad and the Grey Company went with him, along with Legolas and Gimli. When they reached the entrance at daybreak on March 8, Halbarad said, "This is an evil door, and my death lies beyond it. I will dare to pass it nonetheless..."The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book Five, Chapter II: "The Passing of the Grey Company"
At midnight at the Stone of Erech, Aragorn summoned the Dead to fulfil their oaths and Halbarad unfurled Aragorn's standard, which appeared black with no device in the darkness. The Grey Company and the Army of the Dead passed through the lands of the south to Pelargir, where they captured the fleet of the Corsairs. Aragorn dismissed the Dead, and the Grey Company sailed up the Anduin.The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book Five, Chapter IX: "The Last Debate"
When they arrived at the Pelennor Fields on March 15 in the midst of the battle, Aragorn's standard was once again unfurled but now it was seen to bear the emblems of the House of Elendil; the White Tree of Gondor surmounted by seven stars and a crown. Halbarad carried the standard onto the battlefield, where he was killed.The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book Five, Chapter VI: "The Battle of the Pelennor Fields"
== Etymology ==
Halbarad is mostly Sindarin in origin: hal (tall) + barad (tower) = "tall tower".
== In adaptations ==
=== Radio ===
In The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series), Halbarad was voiced by the actor Martyn Read.
=== Born of Hope ===
Halbarad appears in the fan-made film Born of Hope (2009) and was played by Ollie Goodchild (as a teenager) and Lars Mattes (as a boy). An inconsistency of Halbarad's appearance is that he ended up being a teenager while Aragorn was a toddler (namely, older than Aragorn himself). If this were true, Halbarad would have been well over 90 years old when he fell in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, and there is no indication that he belongs to the House of Isildur.
=== The Lord of the Rings: War in the North ===
Halbarad appears in the video game The Lord of the Rings: War in the North as the leader of the Dúnedain guarding the Shire camped at Sarn Ford. After the Nazgûl attacked to Sarn Ford and slaughtered most of the Dúnedain rangers, Halbarad sets up a camp at Sarn Ford among with the other Rangers which survived. He later sends the player's party on a quest to the Barrow Downs to locate two lost rangers, Luin and Kilaran. At the time of Battle of the Pelennor Fields he leaves Sarn Ford together with Luin and never seen in game again. He is modeled with greying hair and a large beard in this adaptation.
=== The Lord of the Rings Online ===
In The Lord of the Rings Online, Halbarad first appears as commander of Esteldin, a hidden Dúnedain city in the North Downs. He later becomes the leader of the Grey Company and leads them from Rivendell, through Eregion, Enedwaith and Dunland south, to aid Aragorn in Rohan.
== Gallery ==
File:Halbarad16.jpg|Halbarad as a teenager in Born of Hope Fan Film
File:Halbarad - LOTRO.jpg|Halbarad as the leader of Grey Company in The Lord of the Rings Online
File:Halbarad WiTN.jpg|Halbarad, from the 2011 video-game War in the North with his rangers defending the Sarn Ford from Black Riders.
File:Halbarad - LOTR The Card Game (Hero).JPG|Halbarad in The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, The Lost Realm Expansion
File:Halbarad - LOTR The Card Game (ally).JPG|Halbarad in The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, The Flame of the West Expansion
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Amharic 	ሃልባራድ
Arabic 	هالباراد
Armenian 	Հալբարադ
Assamese 	হালবাৰাড
Belarusian Cyrillic	Хальбарад
Bengali 	হালবরদ
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Халбарад
Chinese (Hong Kong)	賀爾巴拉
Georgian 	ჰალბარადი
Greek 	Χαλμπαράντ
Gujarati 	હલબરદ
Hebrew 	האלבאראד
Hindi 	हल्बराड
Japanese 	ハルバラド
Kannada 	ಹಲ್ಬರದ್
Kazakh 	Халбарад (Cyrillic) Xalbarad (Latin)
Korean 	할바라드
Kurdish 	(Sorani) هەڵبەراد
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Халбарад
Macedonian Cyrillic	Халбарад
Malayalam 	ഹാൽബറാഡ്
Marathi 	हल्बरद
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Халбарад
Nepalese 	हलबरद
Persian 	حالباراد
Punjabi 	ਹਲਬਾਰਦ
Russian 	Хальбарад
Sanskrit 	हल्बाराद
Serbian 	Халбарад (Cyrillic) Halbarad (Latin)
Sinhalese 	හල්බාරාඩ්
Tajik Cyrillic 	Халбарад
Tamil 	ஹல்பரட்
Telugu 	హల్బరద్
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Хальбарад
Urdu 	ہلبراد
Uzbek 	Ҳалбарад (Cyrillic) Halbarad (Latin)
Yiddish 	האַלבאַראַד
== References ==
Category:Sindarin names & words
Category:Dúnedain of the North
Category:Characters in Born of Hope
Category:War in the North characters
Category:Minor characters (The Lord of the Rings)
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