Fengel

Fengel was the fifteenth King of Rohan.
==Biography==
Born in TA 2870, Fengel was the youngest child and only surviving son of Folcwine. In TA 2885, when Fengel was fifteen, his elder brothers Folcred and Fastred were killed during the Battle of the Crossings of Poros. With the deaths of his older brothers, Fengel automatically became heir to the Kingship of Rohan and Lordship of the Riddermark.
Eighteen years later in TA 2903, King Folcwine died having reigned for thirty-nine years, and Fengel succeeded him becoming the fifteenth King of Rohan at the age of thirty-three. Fengel's rule was both long and troubled, the successes and failures of Fengel's rule were overshadowed by the defects in his character and temperament.
Fengel's rule was characterized by recurring conflicts with his family and military commanders that stemmed from his gluttonous and avaricious nature. His son Thengel left Rohan because of disagreements with his father, and lived with his wife's family in Gondor instead of remaining in Rohan.
After a rule of fifty years, Fengel died in TA 2953 at the age of eighty-three, and Thengel reluctantly returned to Rohan.The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A: Annals of the Kings and Rulers, II: The House of Eorl
==Etymology==
The name Fengel means "king, prince" in Old English.The History of Middle-earth, Vol. III: The Lays of Beleriand, II: "Poems Early Abandoned"
== Other versions of the legendarium==
An early draft depicts an Elf named Fengel, who was the father of Eärendel Fengelsson.
In earlier accounts Fengel was the father of Indor, the grandfather of Peleg and grand-grandfather of Tuor. However, later was replaced by Hador.The History of Middle-earth, Vol. IV: The Shaping of Middle-earth, chapter I: "Prose Fragments Following the Lost Tales"
==In adaptations==
===The Lord of the Rings Online===
In The Lord of the Rings Online, in the last winter of his reign, King Fengel was hunting north of the Entwade when an elderly woman named Wyrgende stumbled into his camp. Fengel sent her away into the dark night and the next day she was found frozen to death at the foot of a tall boulder, in which she had carved a curse against him. King Fengel was furious and ordered Wyrgende's body burned and the stone destroyed, but no man of his company could more her, and every hammer and mattock they set to the stone shattered on contact. Fengel himself assailed the stone with his sword until the blade shattered, and a shard pierced his thigh. The wound festered, and King Fengel died of poisoned blood on the first day of Spring.
==References==
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