In J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Pelendur was Steward of Gondor in the year TA 1944 (Third Age). Pelendur was born in TA 1879, he was a descendant of Húrin of Emyn Arnen, an earlier Steward of Gondor and the grandfather of Mardil Voronwë, the first Ruling Steward of Gondor. This political precedent (choosing a Man of Gondor rather than an Heir of Isildur with a more direct claim to the throne) is one reasons for Aragorn's caution in assuming the throne of Gondor at the end of the Third Age.