Sador - Other Versions of The Legendarium

Other Versions of The Legendarium

Originally Tolkien conceived Sador as a common man of Dor-lómin, presumably of the Folk of Hador, and this is presented in the narrative of the Narn i Chîn Húrin. But in a late work a new idea entered, that Sador must be one of the Drúedain and thus serve as an additional "backward link between The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion." Tolkien also proposed that the Drúedain of the household of Húrin followed him from Brethil after his sojourn there, but this would conflict with the story of Sador's late coming to Dagor Bragollach: the battle occurred in Y.S. 455, but Húrin left Brethil in 459. Tolkien also spelt the name as Sadog, but supposedly this was a slip of memory.