Thranduil, also known as the Elven-Prince, and was a Sindarin Elf of Doriath and Prince of the Silvan Elves of Mirkwood of the Woodland Realm. Thranduil was one of the Iathrim who spent his early life in Doriath. Following the destruction of Beleriand and the War of Wrath, most of the Noldorin exiles and remnants of the Sindar retreated to Lindon. The Valar reinvited these Elves to Aman, but Thranduil, among many others, was unwilling and remained in Lindon. Many of the Sindar left Lindon and travelled eastward before the building of the Barad-dûr in S.A. 1000. Thranduil is first recorded in this event, when he and his father, Oropher, arrived with some Sindar and fewer Teleri. Oropher was taken by the many Silvan and Avarii indigenous elves as their lord and founded the Woodland Realm within the Halls of the Elvenking in Northern Mirkwood, as even now the Shadow streched from Dol-Goldur.