The Forgotten Heroes of the First Age
While The Lord of the Rings is full of heroes in the twilight of the Third Age, there is something to be said about the epic heroes of the First Age. The legend of Turin slaying the dragon Glaurung; Beren, who managed to steal a Silmaril from Morgoth himself! Not to mention Tuor, Hurin, Finrod, Beleg, Herion... ... wait a minute, who is Herion, you ask? Read on! When the latest collection of Tolkien miscellany came out, The Nature of Middle Earth, there were many interesting tidbits of information - the Numenoreans had dancing bears! Dwarves would rather pull plows themselves than domesticate creatures! The birthplace of the elves was just a few hundred miles off the eastern edge of the map! - a new piece of interesting information came up in, oddly enough, an essay on beards - namely, who had them. In that discussion, as Tolkien often did, he casually mentioned a rather interesting piece of information while discussing the 'elvish' strain in th...
