Minstrels

Minstrels are those persons who had the ability to compose and sing songs. Although many people sang, and a number created songs, only a few became widely famous for their musical compositions. Known by name:

• Daeron of the First Age, who was the court minstrel of King Thingol of Doriath.
• Dírhaval of the First Age, who wrote the Narn i Chîn Húrin, the longest of all the lays to come out of Beleriand.
• Gléowine of the late Third Age, was the court minstrel of King Théoden.
• Glirhuin of the First Age, was a seer and harp-player who composed a song that predicted that the Stone of the Hapless would never be defiled or sink beneath the sea.
• Maglor of the First Age, was the second of the Sons of Fëanor and was famed as a poet and bard.
• A minstrel of Gondor during the late Third Age composed an epic lay recounting the tale "of Frodo of the Nine Fingers and the Ring of Doom".