Finduilas History

~ The Steward of Gondor during the end of the Third Age Denethor II took as wife Finduilas, daughter of Adrahil of Dol Amroth. She was a lady of great beauty and gentle heart, but before 12 years of marriage had past she died at age 38.  Denethor loved her, in his fasion, more dearly than any other, unless it were the elder of the two sons that she bore him: Boromir being the elder and Faramir the younger. But it seemed to men that she whithered in the guarded city, as a flower of the seaward vales set upon a barren rock. The shadow in the east filled her heart  with horror, and she turned her eyes ever south to the sea that she missed.

    After her death, Denethor became more grim and silent than before and would sit long alone in his tower deep in thought, foreseeing that the assault of Mordor would come in his time.

Note: This information was taken from the appendix in Tolkien's Return of the King

Finduilas Facts:

* Finduilas was 26 years old when she married, Denethor was 46

* Boromir was 10 years old when his mother died, Faramir was but 5.

* Finduilas was only 38 when she died.

* Dol Amroth (Finduila's birthdplace) is hundereds of miles south west of Minas Tirith.

* Finduilas in Elvish means~ Leaf-flow Hair. (fin= hair, dui=flow, las= leaf.)