King's Writer was a position held by the royal scribes of the Reunited Kingdom. This entailed making the official records of Gondor, working directly with original sources.
Findegil, a King's Writer of renown presumably under the kingship of Eldarion[1] in the Fourth Age, is known to have made at least one copy of the Red Book of Westmarch in Minas Tirith. Indeed, in Fo.A. 171, Findegil finished a copy to create the Thain's Book.[2]
References
- ↑ The year of Eldarion's death is not recorded, but he would have been at most 171 years old and reigned 52 years when Findegil appears in the records.
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, "Prologue", "Note on the Shire Records"