Tarondor (King of Gondor)

Tarondor became the King of Gondor when his uncle Telemnar and all of his children died in the year of the Great Plague, in Third Age 1636. During the plague most of the people of Osgiliath fled the city for the western dales or the woods of Ithilien. In Third Age 1640 Tarondor permanently relocated the King's House to Minas Anor. There he planted a seedling of the White Tree in the citadel, and undertook the task of reordering the realm and nursing its strength. Due to the depopulation of Gondor the watch on Mordor ceased.

Tarondor is a Quenya name. Its meaning is not glossed, but Paul Strack suggests it means "King of Stones" and is a compound of tar ("high", "king") and the plural form of ondo ("stone").

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