Amrothos, youngest son of Prince Imrahil, is Gondor’s answer to Brunel, Newton, da Vinci, and Franklin all rolled into one, and testament to the boundless limitless expanse of scientific discovery and technical endeavour that is possible when accompanied by a very large allowance and political protection from a loving father, who has taken rather to heart a single rule when navigating parenthood as a widowed father. “Whatever Denethor, Lord Steward of Gondor is doing, don’t do it.”

Amrothos is a widely published author of many works, covering an impressive breadth of subjects, but his seminal work on human anatomy, The Insides of Man, is much studied by the healers, surgeons, medical students, and coroners of Gondor and beyond. Sadly, due to the surprisingly low serious crime rate in Dol Amroth and surrounds, there is an increasing period between new editions, due to lack of available specimens. He is sometimes to be found hopefully loitering in the courtrooms of capital trials, visiting coroners’ offices, or in hospital morgues.

Amrothos is appointed the Chancellor of the revived University of Dol Amroth, and the Vice Chancellor and Deans are in perpetual fear that Amrothos will remember when the graduation ceremony is each year and turn up to give a speech.