Don Marshall

And as we talked about last week, they knew they were all going to die and they died.

mostly, except for one.

The text says a young esquire survived, and we will find out more on him later.

Yeah, the biggest tragedy in this seems to be the death of Isildur's oldest son and, as mentioned, the next king of Arnor,

and the High King of the Realms, Elendor.

He is described here in very rich terms, right?

Strong, wise, majestic, and also lacking pride.

The most like Elendil of any of these two generations.

So Isildur and Arian, all of their sons, the most like Elendil here.

And that's some high praise.

I mean, Elendur must have been, I mean, we talked about this last week.

He was already certainly old enough to be king, you know, certainly by this point.

But it's a hard loss.

He would have been a really good king, it seems.

The footnote here has a great reference to Aragorn.

And I think it's worth reading just as it stands here.

It is said that in later days those, such as Elrond, whose memories recalled him, were struck by the great likeness to him in body and mind of King Elessar, the victor in the War of the Ring, in which both the Ring and Sauron were ended forever.

Elessar was, according to the records of the Dunedain, the descendant in the 38th degree of Elendur's brother, Valandil.

So long was it before he was avenged.

Aragorn is said to be like, the great likeness in body and mind to Elendur.