The eldest son of King Brego of Rohan, who at the feast celebrating Meduseld's completion drank deep and vowed to tread the Paths of the Dead. The Dead do not suffer the living to pass unless they have the right; Baldor had only pride. He passed the Dark Door and never returned. Five hundred years later Aragorn's company found his remains before a shut door deep under the Dwimorberg, mail-clad, sword notched and broken, fingers still clawed into the cracks of the stone — he had died trying to hew his way through rather than at the hands of any visible foe. Aragorn left him with the words: "Hither shall the flowers of simbelmyne come never unto world's end."