Alboin

Alboin Errol is the main character of The Lost Road, an unpublished manuscript by J.R.R. Tolkien. He is the son of Oswin Errol, and the father of Audoin Errol. His character is an allegory for Tolkien.^[1]

Biography[]

As a child, Alboin was very interested in languages, and often came up with names in a language he called "Eressëan", or Elf-latin, which was very likely a form of Quenya. He did not feel that he was making it up, however, and it seemed to him that the words came from elsewhere, and were said before him. He liked northern languages, such as Old English, Welsh, Norse, and Irish; but his father, Oswin Errol, discouraged this, and encouraged him to learn Latin and Greek, which Alboin did. He was often subjected to dreams about Eressëan, and as time went on, a form of Sindarin called "Beleriandic".^[1]

Several years after that, he got more of another language; described as a form of Celtic or an old Germanic language; and it is likely that this language was a form of Adûnaic. Later, when he was twenty-eight, he had a son called Audoin, who is likely a representation of Christopher Tolkien; but his wife had died to unknown means. He became a professor of history at a small college.^[1]

As time went on, he began to wish that he could go back in time; and to see what there was. Elendil, or some other of the same name, came to him in a dream, and granted him that wish.^[1]

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