Dior Eluchíl
Son of Beren and Lúthien, Father of Elwing
Thingol's Heir

Of course the "fairest of all the children of the world" would also be the mother of a son who was also called "the beautiful," but since beauty is in the eye of the beholder (and also within the limitations of the skills of the artist!), I tried to design a Sim for Dior that would look somewhat like the son of Beren and Lúthien, and thus the child of Elf, Man, and Maia. Dior joined his father Beren in dealing with the Dwarves who sacked Menegroth and killed Elwë (aka Elu Thingol, the King of Doriath and Lúthien's father, thus "Eluchíl," Elu's heir). After defeating them, Beren returned to Lúthien; Dior stayed in Doriath to try to rebuild it. Before Beren and Lúthien died, they sent the Nauglamír -- the necklace the Dwarves had first made for Finrod, which was taken by Hurin from the hoard of Glaurung after the sack of Nargothrond and given to Thingol, who asked the local Dwarves to alter it to hold the Silmaril, and for which they killed Thingol after completing it; the necklace returned to Menegroth, was later taken by Dwarves in the sack of Doriath, then was retaken by Beren when he and his son fought and destroyed the traitorous Dwarves -- to Dior. The delivery of the necklace was a sign that his parents had passed on, and also a sign of doom, since it brought with it the attention of the sons of Fëanor, who demanded the return of the Silmaril. When Dior did not respond to their demand, they attacked Menegroth, and Dior fought against them; he killed Celegorm, Curufin, and Caranthir, but Dior, his wife Nimloth, and their two young sons, Eluréd and Elurín, were also killed. The poor boys met with the most heinous death, as they were quite young and were simply abandoned in the forests of Doriath by Celegorm's servants. Only their sister Elwing survived the attack, and both she and the Silmaril were taken away to safety at the Havens by persons loyal to Dior.

Other than "beautiful," I know of no other specific description of Dior, so I decided to give him features of both his parents. We know that his mother had black hair and as I'd given his father brown hair, I decided to give Dior dark brown hair as well, but Elven gray eyes. I made all but the single tail at the back shoulder-length (so no, his hair is not disappearing into the mesh of his shoulders), as I tend to envision Men as having longer than modern hair, but less long than the Elves (off-hand, I can't think of many human male characters that Tolkien described as having "flowing" hair; perhaps some of the Rohirrim, and the wizards don't count, being Maiar). I didn't want the ears to be either specifically Elven or specifically human, so I gave them deliberately blunted points, longer-tipped than human but more rounded than Elves. And while the necklace for the Silmaril is by no means as elaborate as Tolkien intended it to be (his description of the Nauglamír, as I recall, was that it was heavy and elaborate, set with many Elven gems besides the Silmaril, which was a large part of why the Dwarves wanted to keep it after Elwë asked them to set the Silmaril in it), I felt it was a reasonably suitable representation of it for a Sim.

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