By the dawning of the Fourth Age, there were two new children of the rulers of Middle-earth. The first born was Crown Prince Eldarion, son of King Aragorn and Queen Arwen of Gondor and Arnor. He was a sweet child, dark eyes like his father's and dark hair like his mother's.
Anawen, daughter of Lord Faramir and Lady Eowyn of Rohan, was the next, born into a new world of peace and prosperity. From the moment of her birth, it seemed, she loved the outdoors and couldn't help but want to feel the Rohanian wind whispering in her golden hair.
Two months after the arrival of Anawen, the occupants of Minas Tirith had welcomed two newcomers into their ranks: Rumil of Lorien and his wife Losdor. A year after their welcome, it was found that Losdor was expecting a child. After nine months had passed, Celebriel, daughter of Rumil and Losdor had been born. King Legolas and Queen Tauriel of Mirkwood were gifted the honor of being the newborn's godparents.
And far away from the Elves and Men, in Hobbiton, fair Elanor, daughter of Samwise Gamgee was born. To be raised among the corn-fields and lush meadows of the Shire, she would grow to be a curly-haired beauty, one of many hobbit-children born the year with golden tresses.
The four young ones-a Peredhil (Half-Elven), a human, an elf, and a hobbit-were of races, countries, months apart, and never expected that they would get to know these other children they had heard of. While equal in the eyes of the world, they were all in one way or the other superior to each other, a fact which, later in their lives, would play a role bigger than they could comprehend.