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Description This is the first Middle-Earth family tree I put together. It's a compilation of the four trees at the back of The Silmarillion.

Added are some of the Edain mentioned in the index of characters in that book: the line from Bëor to Bregor, from Marach to Hador (with Amlach and Imlach added in), and the ancestors of Halmir.

Also added is a summary of the Númenorean family tree based on Appendix A in The Lord of the Rings. The full Númenorean family tree would have 70 generations, and would not fit on a computer screen at any legible resolution. I've tried to include all the important characters in the Akallabêth, and to show the relationships between them. The boxes with numbers, obviously, are the short forms. "Rulers and Princes" means that some of the men in the line of descent from, say, Tar-Meneldur to Ar-Sakathor were not themselves Kings of Númenor, but were younger sons whose sons inherited the scepter of Númenor from their childless uncles.

~MirachRavaia has a tree which does include all the Númenoreans (and the line of Eorl and the Stewards of Gondor).

Just for fun, there are transcriptions of this tree into tengwar: in the mode of Beleriand , and in the mode of Gondor .

The tree is assembled with MetaPost. Clicking the "Download" button will get you a PDF file which may be arbitrarily resized.
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Comments: 6

patrickfoz [2021-09-10 10:21:22 +0000 UTC]

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DelphiPsmith [2014-02-19 17:22:34 +0000 UTC]

This is gorgeous!  What does the color-coding mean, though?  I thought at first it was indicating elves, men, and half-elves,  but that there are five or six different colors so I'm not sure how to account for all of them.

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origamist In reply to DelphiPsmith [2014-02-20 21:52:12 +0000 UTC]

Light blue is Vanyarin Elves.

Dark blue is Noldorin Elves.

Gray is Sindarin or Telerin Elves.


Green is Half-Elves.


Reddish or brownish is Men, but there is enough going on that it works better if the Three Houses of the Edain are different colors.

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alethiophile [2011-11-30 04:27:39 +0000 UTC]

This is truly impressive. Highly useful reference. Thanks much.

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Celebel-Quettandil [2010-02-22 13:55:04 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful, I adore family trees. I've done this millions of times, adding the missing ones and all, but always on pencil. I don't know any program that lets you make family trees easily.

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Giledhel-Narya [2010-01-10 20:54:27 +0000 UTC]

OOoh boy! I'm commenting on thise one, but it refers to ALL the family trees on your gallery.

You did an incredible job organizing it, and making it look really clear and easy on the eye. And all the tengwar translations are completely awesome.

I'm watching you, right this moment, because I know this is a kind of art, even if not as "usual" or "not-so-seemingly-traditional" as we're used to.

I'm in awe.

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