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feanoriel:

My edit: Most Famous of the Queens of Gondor: Vidumavi, Beruthìel, Arwen Undomiel.

• Vidumavi: the wife of King Valacar. She wasn’t a Gondorian woman: she was the daughter of Vidugavia, a powerful chief of Northern men that helped King Romendacil of Gondor in the war against the Esterlings. Romendacil sent his son Valacar as Ambassador to Vidugavia, in the North: so he knew Vidumavi and they fell in love. But when they married, a lot of people criticized Valacar, because Vidumavi hadn’t the long life of the Gondorian, and she died even before that his husband became King, and the Gondorians thought the people with short life as an “lesser” race. When the son of Valacar and Vidumavi, Eldacar, became King, a relative of him, Castamir, rebelled against him and caused a civil war in Gondor (the Kinstrofe). He usurped the throne of Eldacar for ten years, but Eldacar succeeded in defeating him. I personally imagine Vidumavi very similar to the Baltic women.
• Beruthìel: the wife of King Tarannon Falastur. She was of full Numenorean blood, but she hated living in Gondor. She lived alone in an house in Osgiliath, she wore only black and silver clothes, in her garden had a lot of strange sculptures and she had nine black cats and one white cat, that she used as spies. For that reason, Tarannon and the people of Gondor began to hate her, and sentenced her of being exiled on a ship left at the sea, alone with her cats. Nobody knew what happened to her, and Tarannon died childless. In a popular headcanon, she had Numenorean blood, but she didn’t came from Gondor, but from Umbar: the Numenorean outpost in the Harad, were the Numenorean people that sustained Ar- Pharazon flyed after the Fall of Numenor. Tarannon fought a war against the corsairs of Umbar, and he succeeded to conquer their city, so it seems reasonable that he took for wife a noblewoman of Umbar. In my headcanon, Beruthìel looks like an Egyptian woman (because the Numenorean could had created political alliances with the Haradrim people via marriage)
• Arwen Undomiel: everybody knows who she are she is the wife of King Aragorn II Elessar. The only daughter of Elrond Peredhel and Celebrìan, she was an Half-elven, and she could choose between the immortality of the Elves and the mortal life of the Men. For Aragorn’s sake, she chose a mortal life and became the Queen of Gondor after the War of the Ring. Aragorn met her in Rivendell when he had only twenty years, and for a moment believed that she is her ancestor Luthien Tinuviel, the most fair among the elven-maiden, and called her with the surname of “Tinuviel”. The children of Aragorn and Arwen were Eldarion (who became King at his father’s death) and two unnamed daughters. I know that the actress in the imagines isn’t *truly* Liv Tyler, but they look very similar and personally I liked it :<

Good Women’s International Day! Very lately I supposed