Tolkien Gateway   Revision as of 14:57, 21 April 2009 by
Pinkkeith (Talk | contribs)  Oropher was a Sindarin lord of
Elves. He was one of the Sindar of Doriath, but after the War of
Wrath he declined to depart Middle-earth as many others did, and
instead went over the Ered Luin with his house-hold. He
eventually ended up in Greenwood the Great, where Silvan Elves
of Nandorin descent lived, and he was taken by them as lord. His
capital was at Amon Lanc.  "Oropher had come among them with
only a handful of Sindar, and they were soon merged with the
Silvan Elves, adopting their language and taking names of Silvan
form and style. This they did deliberately; for they (and other
similar adventurers forgotten in the legends or only briefly
named) came from Doriath after its ruin and had no desire to
leave Middle-earth, nor to be merged with the other Sindar of
Beleriand, dominated by the Noldorin [High-elven] Exiles for
whom the folk of Doriath had no great love. They wished indeed
to become Silvan folk and to retur