Editing Gondor (section)

==== Dol Amroth ====

Dol Amroth (Sindarin: "the Hill of Amroth"<ref>{{cite book |last=Foster |first=Robert |title=[[A Guide to Middle-earth]] |page=60 |publisher=[[Ballantine Books]] |year=1978 |isbn=978-0345275479}}</ref>) was a fortress-city on a peninsula jutting westward into the Bay of Belfalas, on Gondor's southern shore. It is also the name of the port city, one of the five great cities of Gondor, and the seat of the [[principality]] of the same name, founded by prince Galador.<ref name="Founder" group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1980}}, "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan".</ref> The whimsical poem "[[The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon]]" in ''[[The Adventures of Tom Bombadil]]'' tells how the Man in the Moon fell one night into "the windy Bay of Bel"; his fall is marked by the tolling of a bell in the Seaward Tower (''Tirith Aear'') of Dol Amroth, and he recovers at an inn in the city.<ref group=T>[[The Adventures of Tom Bombadil]], Introduction and Poem 6</ref>

[[File:Flag of Dol Amroth.svg|thumb|upright|Flag of the Prince of Dol Amroth]]

Its ruler, the Prince of Dol Amroth, is subject to the sovereignty of Gondor.<ref name="Letters244" group=T>{{harvnb|Carpenter|2023|loc=#244 to a reader, draft, c. 1963 }}</ref> The principality's boundaries are not explicitly defined, though the Prince ruled Belfalas as a fief, as well as an area to the east on the map labelled Dor-en-Ernil ("The Land of the Prince").<ref name="UT-AN" group=T/> Imrahil, Prince of Dol Amroth in ''The Return of the King'', was linked by marriage both to the [[Stewards of Gondor]] and to the Kings of Rohan.<ref name=Lothiriel>{{cite journal |last=Viars |first=Karen |year=2015 |title=Constructing Lothiriel: Rewriting and Rescuing the Women of Middle-Earth From the Margin |journal=[[Mythlore]] |volume=33 |at=article 6 |url=https://dc.swosu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018&context=mythlore}}</ref> He was the brother of Lady Finduilas and uncle to her sons [[Boromir]] and [[Faramir]];<ref group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1955}}, Appendix A, "The Stewards"</ref> a kinsman of [[Théoden]];<ref group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1980}}, "Disaster of the Gladden Fields".</ref> and the father of [[Éomer]]'s wife Lothíriel.<ref name=Lothiriel/><ref group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1955}}, Appendix A, "The House of Eorl"</ref> Imrahil played a major part in the defence of [[Minas Tirith]]; the soldiers whom Imrahil led to Minas Tirith formed the largest contingent from the hinterland to the defence of the city.<ref name=Chivalry>{{cite journal |last=Honegger |first=Thomas |author-link=Thomas Honegger |year=2017 |title=Riders, Chivalry, and Knighthood in Tolkien |journal=[[Journal of Tolkien Research]] |volume=4 |at=article 3 |url=https://scholar.valpo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1075&context=journaloftolkienresearch}}</ref><ref group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1955}}, "Minas Tirith"</ref> They marched under a banner "silver upon blue",<ref name="UT Field of Cormallen" group=T/> bearing "a white ship like a swan upon blue water".<ref group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1955}}, book 5 ch. 8 "The Houses of Healing</ref>

Some like Finduilas are of Númenórean descent,<ref name="Boromir">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Davis |first=Alex |editor=[[Michael D. C. Drout|Michael D.C. Drout]] |title=Boromir |encyclopedia=[[The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia]] |year=2013 |orig-year=2006 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-0-415-86511-1 |pages=412–413}}</ref> and still speak the Elvish language.<ref name="AppF" group=T/> Tolkien wrote about the city's protective sea-walls and described Belfalas as a "great fief".<ref name="Passing of the Grey Company" group=T/> Prince Imrahil's castle is by the sea; Tolkien described him as "of high blood, and his folk also, tall men and proud with sea-grey eyes".<ref group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1955}}, "Minas Tirith"</ref> Local tradition claimed that the line's forefather, Imrazôr the Númenórean had married an Elf, though the line remained mortal.<ref name="Siege of Gondor" group=T/><ref>{{Harvnb|Hammond|Scull|2005|loc="The Great River", pp. 683–684}}</ref><ref name="Arwen">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Armstrong |first=Helen |editor=Michael D.C. Drout |title=Arwen |encyclopedia=[[The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia]]|year=2013 |orig-year=2006 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-0-415-86511-1 |pages=38–39}}</ref>