Ingwion

Ingwion was born at Cuiviénen before the Great Journey to Ingwë and his wife Ilwen.

Several thousand years later, he led the Vanyar of the Host of the West to Middle-earth to fight in the War of Wrath at the end of the First Age.

Nothing else is known about his fate, either during the war, or after it.

The name Ingwion is in Quenya, and is a compound of the name of his father Ingwë + the Quenya patronymic suffix -ion ("son of"), which is translated as "Son of Ingwë".

The name Ingwion was changed from an earlier form Ingwiel, which was itself changed from Ingwil. The meanings of these earlier forms are unclear, but they all contain the name of his father Ingwë as one of their elements.

However, in The Nature of Middle-earth, from a text dating c. 1959, the form Ingwil reappears again.

The Book of Lost Tales

The earliest literary precursor of the character of Ingwion was called Ingil, according to the early version of the legendarium in The Book of Lost Tales. For more information, see: Ingil.

The Later Annals of Beleriand

According to the early version of the legendarium from the Later Annals of Beleriand (late 1930s), Ingwion's (in that text he was called Ingwiel) role in the War of Wrath was slightly more fleshed out than in the later texts.

There, Ingwiel, the "prince of all the Elves", was the commander of the force that landed and captured the haven of Eglarest (in the text it was called Eglorest) in one of the first battles of the war, driving away the Orcs from the shore.

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