The son and heir of Arantar of Arnor, and the great-great-grandson of Isildur himself. The sixth King to rule the North-kingdom, his reign lasted for eighty years in the middle of the first millennium of the Third Age. He was succeeded by his son Tarondor.
Notes
1
The date of Tarcil's birth appears only in The History of Middle-earth volume XII, The Peoples of Middle-earth. It cannot therefore be considered completely reliable.
2
Tarcil was an Elvish term that could be applied to any of the Dúnedain, deriving from tar 'high' and khil 'Man' (which had its origin in Hildor, 'the Followers', a name for all Men). The Orcs used a degraded form of this same word when they referred insultingly to the Men of Gondor as tarks.
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