Finduilas of Dol Amroth

Finduilas was the sister of Prince Imrahil of Dol Amroth, the late wife of Denethor II, and the mother of Boromir and Faramir.
== Biography ==
Finduilas of Dol Amroth was the daughter of Prince Adrahil II, and had an older sister Ivriniel in addition to her brother Imrahil.
In TA 2976 of the Third Age, she married the much older Denethor, son of Ecthelion II the heir to the Stewardship of Gondor. Finduilas was described as "a lady of great beauty and gentle heart. Denethor loved her, in his fashion, more dearly than any other, unless it were the elder of the sons that she bore him. But it seemed to men that she withered in the guarded city, as a flower of the seaward vales set upon a barren rock. The shadow in the east filled her with horror, and she turned her eyes ever south to the sea that she missed."
In TA 2978, she gave birth to a son Boromir, who became loved by his father. In TA 2983, she gave birth to her second son, Faramir, and after grew weak. In TA 2984, Ecthelion died, and Denethor became Steward of Gondor. Finduilas health dwindled and she fell ill, and four years later she died young at the age of only thirty-eight.The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A: Annals of the Kings and Rulers, I: The Númenórean Kings, (iv): "Gondor and the Heirs of Anárion"
== Legacy ==
Her death greatly affected Denethor and he never remarried, becoming more and more grim and silent than he was before." It was not long after her death that he "would sit long alone in his tower deep in thought, foreseeing that the assault of Mordor would come in his time." Thus he began using the palantír of Minas Tirith, and the despair fed to his mind led to his ultimate insanity and suicide some thirty-one years later.
== Etymology ==
Her name originated after Finduilas, an Elf-maiden of the First Age.The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Chapter XXI: "Of Túrin Turambar"The Children of Húrin, Narn i Chîn Húrin, The Tale of the Children of Húrin, X: "Túrin in Nargothrond" which was a Sindarin word that meant 'Hair- ?'.The Silmarillion, Appendix: Elements in Quenya and Sindarin names
== References ==
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