Valacar Formendur

King Valacar was the twentieth King of Gondor, ruling from 1366 to 1432 of the Third Age. In his youth he was sent as an ambassador to the court of Vidugavia, King of the Northmen, the ancestors of the Rohirrim. Valacar fell in love with and married Vidugavia's daughter Vidumavi, who bore him a son, Vinitharya, who would take the name Eldacar on his return to Gondor. The Northmen did not share the long lives of the Gondorians, and Vidumavi died even before Valacar had succeeded his father as King. This caused unrest throughout Valacar's reign as it was believed that the pure Númenórean blood of the Royal House would be lost.

By the last years of Valacar's reign, certain southern provinces of Gondor saw this unrest break out into full rebellion. In the year Valacar died, III 1432, this rebellion became a civil war, a dark and bloody period known as the Kin-strife that would last for the next fifteen years, until Eldacar managed to secure his throne.

Valacar ruled Gondor for 66 years, and was succeeded by his son, Eldacar . He was honored with a statue and plaque in the Worker's Tier of Minas Tirith.