#calimehtar

          Calimehtar was the second son of Calmacil. Though his brother was a vigorous man known for his victory in battle, Calimehtar took more after his father and showed little interest in personal greatness when he could indulge in the pleasantries afforded to a Prince of Gondor. He wed late in life to Imbelossë, a young seamstress employed by his mother, and barely lived to see the marriage of his only child, Alquandilmë, to her husband Serecco, a guardsman.           Alquandilmë was much closer to her mother than her father, and felt little grief upon Calimehtar’s death. She was proud of her royal heritage, resenting her father’s ineptitude and envying her cousin Valacar’s privileges as King. Though Serecco was a loyal guard to the King’s House, Alquandilmë passed on her bitterness to her son Castamir, who would later use his grandfather’s royal status as pretext for his claim to the throne.

         Calmacil was the younger brother of Narmacil I, and like him had little interest in political matters. In his youth he was caught up in a whirlwind romance with Lady Aistárë, the young wife of one of his father’s counselors, and their scandalous affair was the gossip of all the court until Aistárë’s first husband was killed in a hunting accident and the couple were free to wed. Aistárë bore Calmacil two sons, Minalcar and Calimehtar, but when their children were grown, their parents grew apart and Aistárë returned to her father’s house. She died a few years before Calmacil would ascend to the throne, and was thus never a Queen of Gondor.          When Narmacil died without heirs, Calmacil succeeded him and became the eighteenth King of Gondor. However, he was already an old man and had never had any interest in ruling, so he continued to allow his elder son, Minalcar, function as Regent of Gondor as he had during Narmacil’s reign. Calmacil nominally ruled for ten years before he passed on to receive the Gift of Men.