Idril

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Idril Celebrindal is a fictional character created by J. R. R. Tolkien. She is the daughter of Turgon and Elenwë, wife of Tuor, and the mother of Eärendil the Mariner.

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The name Idril was a Sindarized form of her Quenya name Itarillë (or Itarildë), which means "sparkling brilliance". She was a lovely blonde; she inherited her hair color from her Vanyarin mother.

Idril Celebrindal ("silver-foot") is the only child of Turgon, whose wife Elenwë died at the Helcaraxë. Together with Angrod's son Orodreth and Curufin's son Celebrimbor, she was one of the three Ñoldor in the third generation to come into exile. Idril was loved in secret by her cousin Maeglin, the son of Eöl the Dark Elf and Aredhel, Turgon's sister, but scorned his advances because of his dark character, as well as the fact that they were too closely related.

When Tuor, son of Huor arrived in Gondolin, Idril fell in love with him. Because Turgon had grown to love Tuor as a son (as he had his father before), he allowed Idril and Tuor to wed, thus bringing about the second union of Men and Elves, after Beren and Lúthien.

After the fall of Gondolin, Idril and Tuor became leaders of the exiles at the Mouths of Sirion, where they also received Elwing daughter of Dior son of Beren and Lúthien.

When Tuor grew old he departed in his ship for the West, and Idril went with him. It is believed by the Elves and Dúnedain that Idril and Tuor arrived in Valinor, bypassing the Ban of the Valar, and that Tuor was reckoned in the kindred of the Elves, so that Tuor and Idril now live in Valinor.