Adanel

Adanel was a wise woman of the House of Marach. She was a daughter of Malach and Zimrahin, and the older sister of Magor. Adanel had many other brothers and sisters as well, and, like Magor her brother, they may have been younger than she.
== Biography ==
Adanel married Belemir of the House of Bëor; he was a great-grandson of Bëor the Old. Adanel was the mother of five children, and her fifth and last child was a son: Beren.The History of Middle-earth, Vol. XI: The War of the Jewels, Part Two, The Later Quenta Silmarillion (Chapter 14): "Of the Coming of Men into the West", Commentary, (ii)The House of Hador. His daughter, Emeldir "the Man-hearted", named her son after her father; this child was the renowned Beren Erchamion (Beren the One-handed). Thus, Adanel was the great-grandmother of Beren son of Emeldir, her granddaughter.
The Wise of the people of Marach were the only Men to preserve the tale of their original sin, when, soon after their awakening, the Men chose to worship Melkor instead of Eru. Adanel told this tale (called the Tale of Adanel in Morgoth's Ring) to Andreth of the House of Bëor.
Andreth was a very distant niece of Adanel's husband Belemir through the line of Baran, the eldest son of Bëor, and Belemir through the line of his grandfather Belen, who was the youngest son of Bëor. In addition, Andreth's nephew Barahir married Adanel's granddaughter Emeldir.The History of Middle-earth, Vol. XI: The War of the Jewels, Part Two: The Later Quenta Silmarillion, XIV: "Of the Coming of Men into the West", (i)The House of Bëor, pg. 231.
== Etymology ==
The name Adanel was a Sindarin name of unclear meaning. It is likely to have come from the words adan, meaning 'man' (as a race, rather than in gender), and el, meaning 'star'. This would give her name the meanings "star of man" or perhaps "man of the star".
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Amharic 	ዓዳነል
Arabic 	إدانيل
Belarusian Cyrillic	Аданел
Bengali 	আদানেল
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Аданел
Burmese 	အဒနေလ္
Dari 	ادانهل
Georgian 	ადანელ
Greek 	Αδανελ
Gujarati 	આદનેલ
Hebrew 	אדאניל
Hindi 	आदनेल
Kannada 	ಆದನೆಲ್
Kazakh 	Аданел (Cyrillic) Adanel (latin)
Korean 	아다넬
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Аданэл
Macedonian Cyrillic	Аданел
Marathi 	आदनेल
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Аданел
Nepalese 	आदनेल
Persian 	ادانهل
Punjabi 	ਆਦਨੇਲ
Russian 	Аданэль
Sanskrit 	आदनेल्
Serbian 	Аданел (Cyrillic) Adanel (Latin)
Sinhalese 	ආදනෙල්
Tajik Cyrillic 	Аданел
Tamil 	ஆதநெல்
Telugu 	ఆదనెల
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Аданел
Urdu 	ادانال
Uzbek 	Аданел (Cyrillic) Adanel (Latin)
Yiddish 	אַדאַנעל
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