His is a shadowy figure (his name actually means ‘shadowy’, or perhaps ‘hidden’) on the borders of several tales of those days, chiefly that of Beren and Lúthien. Daeron is said to have loved Lúthien, and to have twice betrayed her to her father in the matter of Beren of the Edain. The minstrel afterwards went away into the east and became lost to the knowledge of the Elves. His chief memorial remains his systemising and re-ordering of the ancient Grey-elven runic alphabet (the certhas), the use of which then gradually spread among other races. Daeron’s Runes may be considered the oldest known form of common writing originated in Middle-earth. See ALPHABET OF DAERON. Dagnir ‘Victor’ (Sind.) – One of the twelve faithful Edain of Dorthonion who remained in that land with BARAHIR after the Dagor Bragollach, and waged a guerrilla war against the occupying armies of Angband. Dagnir Glaurunga ‘Bane of Glaurung’ (Sind.) – Part of the epitaph engraved upon the tombstone of Túrin Turambar at Cabed Naeramarth.
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