Herumor was a term used by a growing dark cult in Gondor during the Fourth Age, over one hundred years into the reign of Eldarion.[1]
Around Fo.A. 220,[2] a secret cult worshipping the Dark Lord used the term Herumor to denote something of significance. Whether Herumor was the name of a person, an alias, a concept, or even a code word is not known. It is known, however, that the term was used in whispers in opposition against Eldarion in the Reunited Kingdom.[1]
Sometime in the early months of the year 220[2], Borlas of Pen-arduin picked up on the whispers of Herumor from a man named Othrondir. Later on, during a discussion with Saelon in June, he briefly pondered how Saelon had heard the name.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "XVI. The New Shadow", pp. 414, 417
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 338, (dated 6 June 1972)