Tuor Eladar, also known as Ulmondil or 'The Blessed', is the central character of "The Fall of Gondolin". He was a great hero of the Third House of Men in the First Age, the only son of Huor and Rían and the cousin of Túrin Turambar. Huor was slain covering the retreat of Turgon, King of Gondolin, in the Nírnaeth Arnoediad. Rían, having received no tidings of her husband, became distraught and wandered into the wild. She was taken care of by the local Grey-elves, and before the end of the year she bore a son and called him "Tuor". But she delivered him to the care of the Elves and departed, dying upon the Haudh-en-Ndengin.