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Erestor

Chief Advisor of Elrond in Rivendell

With the exception of a very few friends, I don't do requests (it's a sure-fire way to lead yourself to madness and burn-out, which I have done before and don't want to do again). Thus, it was a remarkable coincidence that I happened to get an email via Feedback from a visitor who wondered if I was ever planning to do Erestor just after I had started thinking along those lines, and had actually started working on a Sim for him. After all, I have a HUGE property built for Rivendell, and very few people to populate it; moreover, there aren't that many residents of Imladris who were actually named in LotR, so finishing the few I hadn't done didn't seem to be a project bigger than I could handle. While there were clearly quite a few Elves living in Rivendell of the Third Age, Tolkien didn't give names to many of them, which happily spares me the chore of trying to come up with uniquely different appearances for a huge crowd of Elves!

As I've also said before, I intend to create Sims for characters from LotR based on my own imaginings of 40 years of reading the book rather than use Peter Jackson's interpretations (unless, by coincidence, they happen to be strikingly similar, as they are for about half a dozen characters). Since Erestor only appears "on stage" during the Council of Elrond, we really don't know much at all about him. My presumption was that he would likely be dark-haired (since Tolkien clearly stated that fair hair was unusual among the Elves of Middle-earth), and apt to be somewhat conservative in his mode of dress (after all, he favored sending the Ring back to Tom Bombadil for safekeeping rather than attempt to destroy it).