Before Seranduil took the throne, Europhair was king of the Elven Kingdom of the Dark Forest. His story begins in the First Age as an elf of Dorias. Many misfortunes and sorrows affected his character and led him to become the king of the jungle. He was the father of Thranduil and the first Hinda Elven King of the Black Forest.
Europhael's early life was shrouded in mystery, although he was a member of the Elves of the Sinda tribe and inhabited the kingdom of Dorias under Singh's rule. Although the kingdom has been at peace for hundreds of years. But at the end of the First Age, after the death of King Singh, the situation changed dramatically. Dorias suffered 2 attacks and lootings in 3 years. The first attack took place in 503 AD. The Dorias elves at that time were attacked by the dwarves of the Nordrog kingdom. The dwarven army was so strong that although the elves resisted heroically, they were defeated. Many elves died in this battle. After the dwarves won, they looted the elves' palaces and treasures. But this is not the end of Dorias.
The surviving elves are reunited under the leadership of Dior ------ the grandson of Singh, who slowly gather strength in the shadows, hoping to regain their former glory. However, this peace and recovery lasted only 3 years. When Fieno's sons learned that one of his father's elven gems was hidden in Dorias, he actually assembled a powerful army to attack Doaris. Once again, Doaris could not stop the powerful enemy. They resisted desperately, but their king and many of his people were slaughtered by their fellow elves. Some of the surviving elves, including Dior's daughter ----- Elvin. She escaped with the Elven Diamond and lived at the mouth of the Sirian River.
Europhael was also one of the escaped elves, and due to the terrible vow made by the sons of Fieno, they would work tirelessly to regain their father's elven diamond at all costs. Nothing terrible has happened so far that can stop them from achieving this goal. So they gathered their forces again and launched another attack on the remaining troops of Dorias, slaughtering many of their fellow elves again. The elves who survived the third massacre lost all hope of rebuilding their homes. They joined Nodo - Supreme King Gil. Galad's people. Lived with him for a while on the island of Barral.
Morgoth lost the Battle of Wrath, so terrible that most of Bellerian's land was destroyed and sunk into the waves, except for a small piece of land called Linton. Many of the surviving elves went there to live. Since Morgoth was defeated, Vera once again called on the Elven Gate to travel to the Land of the Undead. Some of them, such as Europhael, declined the invitation and preferred to stay in Middle-earth.
Now, Europhael no longer allowed his Sinda people to live under Nodo rule. He set out in 750 A.D. with a number of Sinda elves, including his own son Serandoi, across the Blue Mountains to the Green Forest, which came to be known as the Dark Jungle. Europhael wanted to get rid of the Nodos as well as the Supreme King Gill. The hope of Galad's rule, they were apparently under the tyrannical influence exerted by the sons of Fieno against his people.
Because they are also Nodo elves. When they reached the Great Green Forest, they found that the Green Forest was already inhabited by elves. These elves are more primitive than the Sindas. This is exactly what Europhil wanted, he just wanted to return to the original simple life. It was a more primitive life, like the life of the elves before they were disturbed by Vera (during the Quivenanen period), where Europhael and his people merged with the forest elves and he became their king. He took the name of Aylvan, and under his rule, the Green Elves were isolated from the world. Because they were reluctant to implicate any of the wars and affairs of the Nodo Elves and the Freedmen, at first the elves settled in Amun Rank (Dordogo) in the southern part of the Green Forest, where they lived a peaceful life, and then the rise of the Demon Lord of Sauron, Europhair was worried about the safety of his people. So Europhael led his people northward three times, and finally settled in the valley west of the dense forest. Sauron's threat was not the main reason for their mass migration. They also wanted to escape the influence of the growing power of the Dwarves of Moria. He also resents Kellepin and Gailladriel for coming to Los Lorian, and his hatred of the Nodo Elves is probably the main reason. Gailla del Real was a Nodo elf, but this did not prevent his people from communicating with the elves of Los Rorian.
Sauron's power has grown over the years, and although Europhair wanted to isolate his people from the world, he had the wisdom to foresee that unless Sauron was conquered, they would never have true peace and tranquility. So when the forces of the West began to gather large armies to prepare for the final alliance battle, Europhael decided to join the Alliance Army, and he gathered a large army of forest elves, and joined him a number of elves from Los Rorian, led by their king Amdir, although the forest elves were very heroic, their weapons and armor were far behind Gil. With Gallard's army, Europhael decided to independently command the elves under his command, rather than obeying Gill's orders. Gallard's supreme commander. This act of pride led to many unnecessary casualties for him and his people. It even led to his own death. In their first attack on mordor's gate, in Jill. Before Garard ordered an attack, Europhair chose to lead his bravest elven warriors forward, and he was killed in the battle. Two-thirds of the forest warriors fell in the battle, and when Sauron was defeated, Europhael's son, Selandoi, returned home with the survivors. He became the king of a new generation of dark forests.