Elessar: Kingly Days
Elessar means "elf stone". The clear-green stone, set in a silver brooch with an eagle on it, was given to Aragorn by Galadriel, the elf lady of Lothlorien. She predicted that Aragorn would become King Elessar, which soon became true. Aragorn ruled the Reunited Kingdom of Gondor and Arnor until year 120 of the Fourth Age. He declared himself as "King Elessar Telcontar". Telcontar was also the name of his house. It means Strider in the elven tongue, and even though Strider was such a crude, unkind name for someone so high and kingly, Strider valued it because it was the name Merry (Meriadoc Brandybuck) and Pippin (Peregin Took) were first introduced to him as, and thus affectionately called him that throughout their lives.
So Aragorn ruled with wisdom for 80 years, and then he died. His last word was to Arwen, and it was "Farewell".
Elessar means "elf stone". The clear-green stone, set in a silver brooch with an eagle on it, was given to Aragorn by Galadriel, the elf lady of Lothlorien. She predicted that Aragorn would become King Elessar, which soon became true. Aragorn ruled the Reunited Kingdom of Gondor and Arnor until year 120 of the Fourth Age. He declared himself as "King Elessar Telcontar". Telcontar was also the name of his house. It means Strider in the elven tongue, and even though Strider was such a crude, unkind name for someone so high and kingly, Strider valued it because it was the name Merry (Meriadoc Brandybuck) and Pippin (Peregin Took) were first introduced to him as, and thus affectionately called him that throughout their lives.
So Aragorn ruled with wisdom for 80 years, and then he died. His last word was to Arwen, and it was "Farewell".
Then Aragorn entered first and the others followed. And there at the door were two guards in the livery of the Citadel: one tall, but the other scarce the height of a boy; and when he saw them he cried aloud in surprise and joy.
'Strider! How splendid! Do you know, I guessed it was you in the black ships. But they were all shouting corsairs and wouldn’t listen to me. How did you do it?’
Aragorn laughed, and took the hobbit by the hand. ‘Well met indeed!’ he said. ‘But there is not time yet for travellers’ tales.’
But Imrahil said to Éomer: ‘Is it thus that we speak to our kings? Yet maybe he will wear his crown in some other name!’
And Aragorn hearing him, turned and said: ‘Verily, for in the high tongue of old I am Elessar, the Elfstone, and Envinyatar, the Renewer’: and he lifted from his breast the green stone that lay there. ‘But Strider shall be the name of my house, if that be ever established. In the high tongue it will not sound so ill, and Telcontar I will be and all the heirs of my body.’
—JRR Tolkien, The Return of the King, The Houses of Healing
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