Help with a character: Gyrandurin “Gyr” Goss

[aldarron]

This won't be very helpful, but, to me, Gyrandurin sounds very Dwarvish. It's a good name, but isn't the character supposed to be an Elf?

I would imagine Raddan's family to have had some kind of trouble and faced hard times. Like perhaps his grandfather was a smuggler or something.