Orophin

Unnamed Parents
Haldir	Rúmil	Orophin

One of the Silvan Elves of Lórien who watched the Northern Fences of that land. Orophin was one of three brothers who served together, the others being Haldir and Rúmil. Neither Orophin nor Rúmil knew of the world outside their Golden Wood, and neither spoke more than a few words of the Common Tongue, but their brother Haldir knew more of the outside world.

As wardens of the Northern Fences, Orophin and his brothers were watchful for dangers coming down out of Moria and the vale of Nanduhirion to the northwest of their homeland. On 15 January III 3019, they intercepted a strange company, a small group of travellers fleeing down from the Misty Mountains. This was the Company of the Ring who, having escaped from Moria, were seeking shelter in Lórien from the Orcs that would surely pursue.

A band of perhaps a hundred Orcs did indeed descend from the mountains in pursuit, but Orophin and his brother were able to confuse and distract the horde, leading it harmlessly off into the woods. While Haldir remained with the Company to act as their guide, Orophin departed into the Wood to take warnings to his people, so that they could assemble and deal with the rampaging Orcs.

Of Orophin's later life we have no direct account. Just two months after his encounter with the Company of the Ring, Lórien would be attacked several times from the east and, as a warden of the land, Orophin may have been called upon to help defend it. The attacks came far from his home on Lórien's far northern and western borders, however, and so it is equally possible that he would have remained at his post during this time.

More than a century after these events, when Arwen travelled to Lórien, she found it deserted. So, it seems that Orophin and his brothers - assuming that they survived the War - must have eventually taken ship with the rest of their people and departed from Middle-earth to sail into the West.