Eriol
Eriol
Eriollo.
Angol.
Ælfwine.
Ottor.
Wæfre.
Son of Eoh.
Born in year ?. Died in Tavrobel at Tol-Eressëa longing for the black coasts of his homeland. ( The precise year can not be determent )
Eriol means One who dream Alone but later in the evolution of the tales it was changed to Ælfwine meaning
Elf-friend. Eriol was a human in the Great Lands before
he traveled over the sea and came to Tol-Eressëa.
He was also a son of Eärendil; a Eärendili, in the meaning of a wayfarer and a mariner. The hole character
Eriol later vanished but story plots can be seen in the evolved tales of Tuor, Huor and Eärendil
( Eriol`s name was truly Ottor but this may only be learned from jottings in a little pocketbook called "Story
of Eriol`s life" but that Eriol called himself Wæfre which meant "restless wandering" and
that he lived his life on the waters. Eriol`s father was Eoh. From this pocketbook we may also learn that Eriol
adopted the name the Elves of the island gave him. This name was in old Quenya Eriollo and in old Noldorin Angol.
That name was an reference to his homeland Ang = Iron , Ol = Cliff, seaward precipice and Eriol was said to mean
the same though that changed and so did the name Angol / Eriollo / Ottor / Wæfre but the reference to his
homeland never did. Meril-i-Turingi refereed to the Black coasts of his homeland. So the homeland of Eriol was
the Elvish named region "Ironcliffs". This place is told to be the region of the northern part of the
Great Lands. In my opinion it would be somewhere where there is a coastline with dark or black cliffs and the only
place where it fits both according to description, statements, later names and geography is at the West side of
Ered Lomin in the region of Lammoth near the Bay of Drengist.
Eriol came to Eressëa long time after the Great Wars with Melkor.
There he found the town of Koromas in the country
of Alalminórë, In Koromas upon
the hill down by a winding lane the Cottage
of Lost Play, long ago; build by Vairë and Lindo,
he rested for many more a day than what he had had in mind at his arrival and there he was told many a legend and
tales as had never been heard in their full context by mortal ears before.
As Eriol tired arrived at the house Mar Vanwa Tyalivéa, Rúmil the Door ward asked him in and he was invited by Lindo and Vairë to join the dinner when Littleheart stroke the gong Tombo. It came to pass that Eriol stayed in the house for many days while he was told the story of elfinesse; the story of the elves and of the gods and he heard of the Queen of the Isle Meril-i-Turingi. who administered the drink Limpë. Eriol indeed wanted to taste that wine but in order to do that he had to visit Meril but she refused his wish since all who tasted that wine was not permitted to leave the isle again and in all had to become elvish even if Men and family and kin should declare war upon the Elves he who had tasted the wine would have to stand beside the Elves.
One evening the old and wise Gilfanon visits the cottage and Eriol is invited to come to his home; the House of Hundred Chimneys, to hear the tales, histories and prophesies he knows. There in the House of Hundred Chimneys Gilfanon bids him to write all he hear and has heard in a book and Eriol writes the Golden Book and in return he grants Eriol his wish and offers him Limpë.
Eriol was the name he received by the Elves of Tol-Eressëa and, the first to call him so were Vairë in the garden one early morning in the garden of Mar Vanwa Tyalivéa.