Princes of Dol Amroth

The Princes of Dol Amroth was a noble title of the Kingdom of Gondor, held by those directly governing the principality of Dol Amroth under the rule of Gondor.
==Early history==
According to ancient traditions, the Princes of Dol Amroth were descended from a family of Faithful from Númenor who had ruled over the land of Belfalas since the Second Age. This family of Númenóreans were akin to the Lords of Andúnië, and thus related to Elendil and descended from the House of Elros.Unfinished Tales, Introduction, Part Three, II: "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan" After the Downfall of Númenor they had been given the title Prince of Belfalas by ElendilUnfinished Tales, Introduction, Part Three, II: "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan", note 39 and their land, now a fief of Gondor, was called Dor-en-Ernil. The hereditary Princes of Belfalas later founded the city of Dol Amroth and became the Princes of Dol Amroth. One of those princes, Adrahil, fought under King Ondoher against the Wainriders.Unfinished Tales, Introduction, Part Three, II: "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan", note 39
While the House of Dol Amroth had links to the House of Anárion and were the most powerful nobles in the Kingdom, they did not have a claim to the throne that all would accept. Therefore, they remained loyal to the Stewards of Gondor, the representatives of the ancient crown.
One branch of their descendants removed to Lossarnach.Unfinished Tales, "The Battles of the Fords of Isen" Morwen Steelsheen, a daughter of that family, married Thengel of Rohan. Through Morwen, both Thengel's heir Théoden and his grandson Éomer carried the blood of the ancient Princes of Belfalas.
== Line of Princes==
The line of Dol Amroth was linked by marriage both to the Stewards of Gondor and to the Kings of Rohan: Imrahil was uncle to Boromir and Faramir;The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Stewards", pg. 336 a kinsman of Théoden;Unfinished Tales, "The Disaster of the Gladden Fields", pg. 286 and the father of Éomer's wife Lothíriel.The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The House of Eorl", pg. 352
Here follows a list of the line of Princes of Dol Amroth. All dates are Third Age, but many names are not known, only dates of birth and death.
Princes of Belfalas	Princes of Belfalas 	Princes of Belfalas
1 	Adrahil I, Prince of Belfalas: fl. TA 1944 	
2 	Imrazôr the Númenórean, Prince of Belfalas (TA 1950 - TA 2076)	
Princes of Dol Amroth	Princes of Dol Amroth 	Princes of Dol Amroth
1 	Galador, first Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2004 - TA 2129
2 	Second Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2060 - TA 2206
3 	Third Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2120 - TA 2254
4 	Fourth Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2172 - TA 2299
5 	Fifth Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2225 - TA 2348
6 	Sixth Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2274 - TA 2400
7 	Seventh Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2324 - TA 2458
8 	Eighth Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2373 - TA 2498
9 	Ninth Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2418 - TA 2540
10 	Tenth Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2463 - TA 2582
11 	Eleventh Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2505 - TA 2623
12 	Twelfth Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2546 - TA 2660
13 	Thirteenth Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2588 - TA 2701
14 	Fourteenth Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2627 - TA 2733
15 	Fifteenth Prince of Dol Amroth, slain by Corsairs of Umbar	TA 2671 - TA 2746†
16 	Sixteenth Prince of Dol Amroth, slain in battle 	TA 2709 - TA 2799†
17 	Seventeenth Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2746 - TA 2859
18 	Eighteenth Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2785 - TA 2785
19 	Aglahad, nineteenth Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2827 - TA 2932
20 	Angelimir, twentieth Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2866 - TA 2977
21 	Adrahil II, twenty-first Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2917 - TA 3010
22 	Imrahil, twenty-second Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2955 - FO 34
23 	Elphir, twenty-third Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 2987 - FO 66
24 	Alphros, twenty-fourth Prince of Dol Amroth 	TA 3017 - FO 94
===Origin===
J.R.R. Tolkien gives two differing accounts of the origin of Imrahil's line, both in Unfinished Tales.
In the earlier account,Unfinished Tales, "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", pg. 248 the line was founded, according to "the tradition of [the] house", by Imrazôr the Númenórean and the Silvan Elf Mithrellas, one of Nimrodel's companions. Imrazôr lived in Belfalas around TA 2000 and had two Half-elven children: a boy Galador and a girl Gilmith. Shortly thereafter Mithrellas is said to have vanished in the night. Galador, according to this tradition, became the first Prince of Dol Amroth.
Although this account does not appear explicitly in The Lord of the Rings, it figures in the perception of Imrahil by the people of Minas Tirith: "Belike the old tales speak well; there is Elvish blood in the veins of that folk, for the people of Nimrodel dwelt in that land once long ago",The Return of the King, "The Siege of Gondor", pg. 98 as well as in the accolade from Legolas upon meeting Imrahil: "It is long since the people of Nimrodel left the woodlands of Lórien, and yet still one may see that not all sailed from Amroth's haven west over water."The Return of the King, Book Five, "The Last Debate", pg. 148 Tolkien began, in fact, to work out a genealogical tableThe table is reproduced in The History of Middle-earth, Vol. XII The Peoples of Middle-earth, "The Heirs of Elendil", pgs. 222-23 linking Galador with Imrahil, but he abandoned it after getting little farther than assigning dates to the mostly blank spaces in between.
The second accountUnfinished Tales, "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan", pg. 304, pg. 316, note 39 belongs, according to Christopher TolkienUnfinished Tales, "Introduction", pg. 10 to the late writings, undertaken well after the publication of The Lord of the Rings, when Tolkien turned to explore the early history of Gondor and Rohan. Here Tolkien says that the title of "Prince" was given to the line of Dol Amroth by Elendil himself; this was the family that had led the original Númenórean colonization. Adrahil of Dol Amroth, who fought with Calimehtar against the WainridersUnfinished Tales, "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan", pgs. 293-94 in TA 1944 (predating both Imrazôr and the death of Amroth), probably also belongs to this version.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Prinse van Dol Amroth
Albanian 	Princat e Dol Amrothit
Amharic 	የዶል አምሮት መኳንንት
Arabic 	دول أمروث أمراء
Aragonese 	Prencipes de Dol Amroth
Armenian 	Դոլ Ամրոտի Իշխանները
Azerbaijani 	Dol Amroth Prenslər
Basque 	Dol Amrothko printzeak
Belarusian Cyrillic	Дол Амрот Князі
Bengali 	দোল আমরোথের রাজকুমার
Breton 	Priñsed Dol Amroth
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Принцовете на Дол Акрот
Catalan 	Prínceps de Dol Àmroth
Croatian 	Dol Amroth prinčevi
Czech 	Princové Dol Amrothu
Danish 	Fyrster af Dol Amroth
Dutch 	Prinsen van Dol Amroth
Esperanto 	Princoj de Dol Amroth
Estonian 	Dol Amroth riigivürstid
Filipino 	Mga prinsipe ng Dol Amroth
Finnish 	Dol Amrothin suuriruhtinaat
French 	Princes de Dol Amroth
Frisian 	Prinsen fan Dol Amroth (Western)
Galician 	Príncipes de Dol Amroth
Georgian 	დოლ ამროთი პრინცების
German 	Fürsten von Dol Amroth
Greek 	Πρίγκιπες του Nτολ Αμροθ
Gujarati 	ડોલ અમરોથ રાજકુંવરો
Hebrew 	נסיכי דול אמרות
Hindi 	डोल अमरोथ के राजकुमारों
Hungarian 	Dol Amroth hercegei
Icelandic 	Furstar af Dol Amroth
Indonesian 	Pangeran-pangeran Dol Amroth
Italian 	Principi di Dol Amroth
Japanese 	ドル・アムロス プリンシス
Kannada 	ಡೋಲ್ ಅಮ್ರೋತ್ ರಾಜಕುಮಾರರು
Kazakh 	Дол Амрот княздары (Cyrillic) Dol Amrot knyazdary (Latin)
Korean 	돌 암로스의 왕자
Kurdish 	شازادەکانی دۆل ئەمرۆت (Sorani) Mîrên Dol Amroth (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Дол Амротун принцтери
Latin 	Princeps Dol Amroth
Latvian 	Dol Amroth prinči
Lithuanian 	Dol Amroth princai
Luxembourgish 	Prënzen vun Dol Amroth
Macedonian Cyrillic	Принцови од Дол Амрот
Malayalam 	ഡോൾ അംറോത്തിലെ രാജകുമാരന്മാർ
Malaysian 	Putera-putera Dol Amroth
Maltese 	Prinċpijiet ta’ Dol Amroth
Maori 	Nga rangatira o Dol Amroth
Marathi 	डोल अम्रोथचे च्या राजपुत्र
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Дол Амрот Ханхүү нар
Nepalese 	डोल अम्रोथका राजकुमारहरू
Norwegian 	Fyrster av Dol Amroth
Old English 	Dol Amroth Þēodnas
Pashto 	د دول امروت شهزادګان
Persian 	دول آمروت شاهزادگان
Polish 	Książęta Dol Amroth
Portuguese 	Príncipes de Dol Amroth
Romanian 	Prinți de Dol Amroth
Russian 	Принцы Дол Амрот
Scottish Gaelic 	Prionnsachan Dol Amroth
Serbian 	Принчеви Дол Амрота (Cyrillic) Prinčevi Dol Amrota (Latin)
Sinhalese 	ඩොල් අම්රොත් කුමාරවරු
Sindhi 	ڊول امروٿ جا شهزادا
Slovak 	Princovia Dol Amrothu
Slovenian 	Princi Dol Amrotha
Spanish 	Príncipes de Dol Amroth
Swahili 	Wakuu wa Dol Amroth
Swedish 	Prinsar av Dol Amroth
Tajik Cyrillic 	Шоҳзодаҳои Дол Амрот
Tamil 	டோல் அம்ரோத்தின் இளவரசர்கள்
Tatar 	Дол Амрот кенәзләре
Telugu 	డోల్ అమ్రోత్ రాకుమారులు
Turkish 	Dol Amroth Prensler
Turkmen 	Dol Amroth Şazadalar
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Князів Дол-Амрот
Urdu 	ڈول امروت کے شہزادے
Uzbek 	Дол Амрот князлари (Cyrillic) Dol Amrot knyazlari (Latin)
Vietnamese 	Các thân vương Dol Amroth
Welsh 	Tywysogion Dol Amroth
Yiddish 	פּרינסעס פון דאָל אַמראָט
==References==
Category:Ranks and titles of Gondor
 
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