aredhels: all the tolkien ladies ♥︎ queen berúthiel Berúthiel was a Queen of Go
aredhels: all the tolkien ladies ♥︎ queen berúthiel Berúthiel was a Queen of Gondor in the early part of the Third Age. She was the wife of King Tarannon Falastur, and was noted as being “nefarious, solitary, and loveless”. She was a Black Númenórean, a race that was often at war with the Dúnedain of Gondor. Due to the hostility between the two races, Falastur’s reason for marrying her is unclear, but he brought her to live with him in his house by the Sea near Pelargir. She hated Pelargir, however, and dwelt in the King’s House in Osgiliath instead. Berúthiel loathed cats, but they became attracted to her for precisely that reason, and followed her around, and eventually she took advantage of their company by enslaving and torturing them. In total she had ten cats, nine black and one white. Berúthiel set the black cats to spy on the Men of Gondor and the white cat to spy on the black ones. She managed to learn many dark secrets about the realm and its people by conversing with them and “reading their memories”. -- source link
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