Everything about Amras totally explained
In
J. R. R. Tolkien's
legendarium,
Amras is a
fictional character, the twin brother of
Amrod being the youngest sons of
Fëanor and
Nerdanel. Through their maternal grandfather
Mahtan they inherited red hair (probably a dark red), instead of Fëanor's black.
Amras' father name in
Quenya is
Telufinwë, "Last Finwë", for he was the last of Fëanor's sons. His mother name was originally
Ambarussa ("top-russet", referring to his hair), the same as his brother Amrod, but Fëanor insisted that the twins ought to have different names and Nerdanel later called him
Umbarto, "the Fated". His father, disturbed by it, changed it to
Ambarto. Nevertheless both twins called each other
Ambarussa.
However "Umbarto" proved to be a prophetic name, for Amras was accidentally killed in the swan ships of the
Teleri, when his father ordered them to be burnt at
Losgar.
Other versions of the legendarium
There is no trace of the death of Amras at Losgar in the published
The Silmarillion, as it was a very late idea by Tolkien, omitted by
Christopher Tolkien as he didn't at the time see how it could be incorporated into the primary text of
The Silmarillion. Where both Amrod and Amras are mentioned in the published text after the landing in Losgar, it should according to Tolkien's later wishes be Amrod alone. The information regarding Amras' naming, especially, comes from
The Peoples of Middle-earth.
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