Avari

The Avari were a branch of the Elves in Middle-earth, the group of Moriquendi ('Elves of Darkness') who never journeyed to Aman, and their descendants. They were also known as Avamanyar (Quenya for 'Those who would not go to Aman'),Eldamo.org - Eldamo : Quenya : Avamanyar as opposed to the Amanyar, 'Those of Aman', and Úmanyar, 'Not of Aman'.
==History==
When Oromë found that Elves had awakened in Cuiviénen, he invited them to come with him to Valinor. All the Minyar and most of the Tatyar and Nelyar were persuaded and followed Oromë into the west on the Great Journey. The remainder of the Tatyar and Nelyar remained suspicious of the Lords of the west, seeing them only in their wrath, or they simply refused to depart from their own lands, and spread gradually throughout the wide lands of Middle-earth. They were after known in Quenya, the language of the Eldar that eventually reached Valinor, by the name Avari, meaning "the Unwilling", because they refused the summons.The History of Middle-earth, Vol. XI: The War of the Jewels, Part Four: Quendi and EldarThe Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Ch. III: "Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor"
Having never come to Valinor, the Avari remained wild folk, dwellers of forests. Little is known of them, as they do not appear in any of the tales, save some references to Avari creeping in the south of Beleriand in the First Age. Some of them merged with the Nandor and Sindar in Eriador and the Vale of Anduin.
In The War of the Jewels, names of six tribes of Avari in their own languages are given, all being cognates of the Quenya term Quendi (the Speakers): Kindi, Cuind, Hwenti, Windan, Kinn-lai, Penni. They are the only certain Avarin words ever mentioned in the published Middle-earth material. It is speculated however that Dorwinion was an Avarin land, with Winion carrying the meaning "wine".
The Annals of Aman, given in Morgoth's Ring, suggest that Orcs descended from Avarin Elves captured and corrupted by Melkor, in mockery and in his envy of the Eldar in particular.The History of Middle-earth, Morgoth's Ring, Part Two: The Annals of Aman, "Second Section of the Annals of Aman", pgs. 73-4 Tolkien suggests elsewhere that this notion was, at least, a belief the Eldar held about the Orcs' origin.The History of Middle-earth, Morgoth's Ring, Part Five: Myths Transformed, VII, pgs. 405-6 The matter is not ultimately clarified.
Eöl, one of the Teleri, was called the 'Dark Elf' for how he shunned the daylight, preferring to stay within the dark woods of Nan Elmoth and walk at nighttime. He was not, in fact, of Avarin lineage, being related to Thingol.The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Ch. XVI: "Of Maeglin"
==In other versions==
In older versions of the legendarium, the name Avari was originally that of the later Eldar, then meaning "those that departed".
In other, relatively late writings, a brief idea was that the Avari did not come from the three clans, but from two other clans, led by Nurwë and Morwë. This idea was later dropped. In the final conception, the Elves were divided into three tribes.
==References==
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Amharic 	ዓቫሪ
Arabic 	افاري
Armenian 	Ավարի
Assamese 	আভাৰী
Belarusian Cyrillic	Авары
Bengali 	আভারী
Bhojpuri 	अवरी
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Авари
Chinese (Hong Kong)	亞維瑞
Dogri 	अवरी
Georgian 	ავარები
Greek 	Άβαρι
Gujarati 	અવારી
Hebrew 	אוארי
Hindi 	अवारी
Japanese 	アヴァリ
Kannada 	ಅವರಿ
Kazakh 	Аварі (Cyrillic) Avari (Latin)
Korean 	아 바리
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Авари
Macedonian Cyrillic	Авари
Marathi 	आवरि
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Авари
Nepalese 	अवारी
Pashto 	اواری
Persian 	آواری
Punjabi 	ਅਵਾਰੀ
Russian 	Авари
Sanskrit 	आवरि
Serbian 	Авари (Cyrillic) Avari (Latin)
Sinhalese 	ආවරි
Tajik Cyrillic 	Авари
Tamil 	அவரி
Telugu 	అవారి
Thai 	อวาริ
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Авари
Urdu 	آواری
Yiddish 	אַוואַרי
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