Character Bios
Herumor
Meaning: dark lord
Location(s): Harad
Race/Species: Man
Type/Kind: 2nd age Numenoreans
Dates: Second Age
Description:
Herumor A renegade Númenórean who became mighty among the Haradrim at the end of the Second Age.
The Silmarillion, Index of Names
And Sauron gathered to him great strength of his servants out of the east and the south; and among them were not a few of the high race of Númenor. For in the days of the sojourn of Sauron in that land the hearts of well nigh all its people had been turned towards darkness. Therefore many of those who sailed east in that time and made fortresses and dwellings upon the coasts were already bent to his will, and they served him still gladly in Middle-earth. But because of the power of Gil-galad these renegades, lords both mighty and evil, for the most part took up their abodes in the southlands far away; yet two there were, Herumor and Fuinur, who rose to power among the Haradrim, a great and cruel people that dwelt in the wide lands south of Mordor beyond the mouths of Anduin.
The Silmarillion, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age
Etymology
heru 'lord' in Herumor, Herunúmen; Sindarin hir in Gonnhirrim, Rohirrim, Barahir; híril 'lady' in Hírilorn....
mor 'dark' in Mordor, Morgoth, Moria, Moriquendi, Mormegil, Morwen, etc.
The Silmarillion, Appendix: Elements in Quenya and Sindarin Names
Contributors:
Elena Tiriel 30Jun06
