Help with a character: Gyrandurin “Gyr” Goss

[Havard]

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?

Not married to the name neccessarily, but also wanted to avoid having every elven name end with "-el". How about Gyrianduin instead? Removing the "r" makes it sound more reminiscent of the River Anduin. I wanted to keep the "Gy" in there since both sons have this two letters in their names.

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.

Elven smuggler? I have never heard of of that concept before. But I suppose since they do have Merchants, they would have to have smugglers as well. Moving illegal goods, or perhaps just dodging taxes.

Not sure this would make too much sense for this character though. His eldest son, Mithgilliwyr went on to becoming a pioneer in planar exploration and the founder of the Ordo Elementarum. It seems a bit odd that he would come from such a background? The younger son, Raddam, is certainly a bad seed of the family. If we want a psychological explanation for his insanity, then perhaps some kind of tragedy involving his mother could be part of it? It is interesting that Raddam did keep his father's family name, suggesting that his father did not abandon him.

I also realized that it might be because of his brother that Raddam allowed some of the Ordo Elementarum to escape to other planes before destroying the Blood Wood.

-Havard