Aredhel Ar-Feiniel (pronounced roughly as "Ar-a-thel Ar-fi-ni-el") (born and known in Quenya as Irissë) is a fictional character created by J. R. R. Tolkien.
She is called Ar-Feiniel, the White Lady of the Noldor. She is the daughter of Fingolfin and Anairë, sister of Fingon, Turgon and Argon, and mother of Maeglin.
She was born and raised in Tirion.
She is highly adventurous and something of a feminist:
"I am your sister and not your servant, an...
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Aredhel Ar-Feiniel (pronounced roughly as "Ar-a-thel Ar-fi-ni-el") (born and known in Quenya as Irissë) is a fictional character created by J. R. R. Tolkien.
She is called Ar-Feiniel, the White Lady of the Noldor. She is the daughter of Fingolfin and Anairë, sister of Fingon, Turgon and Argon, and mother of Maeglin.
She was born and raised in Tirion.
She is highly adventurous and something of a feminist:
"I am your sister and not your servant, and beyond your bounds I will go as seems good to me."
Aredhel is tall and strong, beautiful, extremely wilful and fickle, easily bored and restless, fond of hunting and riding in the forests. Her skin is pale and her hair dark; she always wears silver and white. Though fond of the sons of Fëanor, she never weds any one of them.
After arriving in Middle-earth, Aredhel dwells in Nevrast with Turgon, and goes with him to Gondolin. But after two hundred years she tires of the city and longing for the forests and wide lands overcomes her. Aredhel...
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