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Amroth, son of Amdîr, was a Sindarin Lord of Lórien. He probably succeeded his father after he fell in the War of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men. Amroth wanted to leave Lórien as he tired of Middle-earth, and journeyed south to Edhellond, an old Elf-haven of his people, together with Nimrodel, his beloved.

However, Nimrodel was lost in the Ered Nimrais, and Amroth long delayed his departure to Valinor. As he finally set sail, he thought he saw Nimrodel on the quays, and he jumped overboard to swim back to her. He drowned in the Bay of Belfalas and never returned home.

In earlier versions of the legendarium, Amroth was briefly Galadriel and CelebornTolkien work The Lord of the Rings Celeborn (pronounced with a hard C as in Cake is the Elven husband of Galadriel. He was known in the Third Age as the Lord of Lorien. He was the father of Celebrian, the wife of Elrond, making him the grandfather of Arwe's son, brother to CelebríanIn the fiction of J. Tolkien, Celebrian is an Elf of Middle-earth, the daughter of Celeborn and Galadriel, wife of Elrond, and mother of Arwen, Elrohir and Elladan. Celebrian's birth date is unspecified, and she first appears (in the Unfinished Tales as h, but this idea was dropped.