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Gundor was the youngest child and second son of Hador Lórindol. Unlike his elder siblings, who both married into the House of Haleth, Gundor wed a woman of his father’s House: Angreneth, who despite her unyielding name was a gentle soul who actively avoided conflict. Angreneth bore Gundor only one child, Indor, before her husband was slain in the Dagor Bragollach alongside his father. Angreneth was thus left alone to raise her son, and despite the tragic loss that might have broken others, Indor grew into a gentle and compassionate man. He kept a homely dwelling, welcoming any who sought shelter, including folk of the House of Bëor who fled to Dor-lómin after the destruction of their homes in Ladros. One such guest was Padrion, a man who quickly became attached to Indor, and time married him. Padrion bore Indor two children, Aerin and Peleg, each who endured a grim fate before they died too young. Peleg was only a young man before he was slain in the Fifth Battle, cut to pieces by the orcs. Peleg’s sister Aerin was close to her kinsman Húrin Thalion, and closer to his wife Morwen Eledhwen, even taking her as a lover from time to time. When the Battle of Unnumbered Tears was lost and Dor-lómin overrun by Easterlings, Aerin suffered greatly, for Húrin was dead or captured and Morwen turned into a cold, proud woman with no time for anyone but her children, one of whom she quickly sent away to relative safety. Then Morwen, too, disappeared with her daughter Niënor, leaving Aerin without any friends to protect her when Brodda, an Easterling lord, forcibly took her to be his wife. When Húrin’s son Túrin suddenly reappeared in Dor-lómin, instantly sparking conflict and slaying one of his own kinsmen, it was Aerin who informed him that his mother and sister had vanished. In his rage, he slew Brodda, and Aerin, not wishing to be further persecuted by her dead husband’s companions, burnt herself and many of them alive in Brodda’s hall.
