Bëor

Bëor, also known as Bëor the Old, was the chieftain of the first house of the Edain to cross the Blue Mountains into Beleriand during the First Age. His name should be pronounced bay-or.
== Biography ==
Bëor was originally named Balan. He and his folk were the first of Mankind to encounter the Ñoldor of Beleriand when King Finrod Felagund happened upon their camp in Ossiriand in the year FA 310. After years of wandering westwards in search of the High Elves (or the Valar, of whom the Bëorians had heard rumor from the lesser Elves they had met in the east), Bëor was eager to establish good relations with Finrod, and the two strove to understand each other. The language barrier was not a major problem due to the similarities between the tongue of the Bëorians, which had been influenced by the Elves they had met earlier, and the Sindarin tongue. In the tongue of his people, called Taliska, Bëor was named 'Balan'. The name he is more commonly called by, Bëor was actually the Taliska word for 'vassal', which he earned in the service of Felagund.
Bëor and his people settled first in Ossiriand, but were at odds with the Green-elves that already dwelt there, for the men competed with the Elves for food and natural resources. Therefore, on the advice of Felagund, Bëor led his people to Estolad, the encampment, in the realm of Amrod and Amras, sons of Fëanor. There the people of the first house became more numerous and were enriched by the teachings of the Eldar. Bëor, however, was not content and wanted to leave Estolad and enter instead into the service of King Finrod. He committed the rule of his people to Baran, his son, and departed with Finrod to his realm of Nargothrond. There Bëor continued his service, and he returned never to Estolad. He died in the year 355 of the First Age at the age ninety-three, having spent 44 years in the service of Felagund. His death was greatly lamented by King Finrod and his people, who witnessed for the first time the Gift of Ilúvatar: Death. But in the end Bëor gave up his life willingly and died in peace, a thing previously unheard of by the Elves, who wondered much at the strange lives of Men.
Bëor was held among the Wise of the Edain, and was revered by many among the Eldar. He laid the foundations for cooperation between the Eldar and the Edain in years to come and was the forefather of such heroic figures as Barahir, his son Beren Camlost, Túrin Turambar, Tuor his cousin, and Eärendil the Mariner (who was technically a half elf), son of Tuor.The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Chapter XVII: "Of the Coming of Men into the West"
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Беор
Chinese (Hong Kong)	比歐
Dutch 	Bëor de Oude (the Old)
German 	Beor der Alte (the Old)
Japanese 	ベオル
Korean 	베오르
Persian 	بئور
Russian 	Беор
Sinhalese 	බෙයෝර්
Telugu 	బెయోరు
Thai 	เบออร์
== References ==
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es:Balan
fr:Bëor
it:Bëor il Vecchio
nl:Bëor de Oude
pl:Bëor
ru:Беор
Category:Bëorians
Category:Chieftains of the House of Bëor
Category:The Silmarillion characters
Category:Edain