Born 327 years ago to Silvan parents Emerdir Baramaenas and Nathril Fenandaimie was Amarelei, given the name "earthly dream" for the starlight in her eyes and the birdsong in her childlike laughter. Raised as an only child in the valleys of Imladris, she indeed became a daughter of the forests and fields, her love for the animals and trees shining out through her eyes and her smile.

Hers was a merry childhood, in which many an hour was spent with Baramaenas and his flock, or by Fenandaimie's side at the loom. Through her father, Amarelei came to understand the birds and beasts of the valley. As she grew, so grew the flock to know and respond to her touch and calming voice. Though she never became a herder herself, the elleth is still often found in the company of animals, for they make the best listeners to her innermost thoughts and dreams.

From her mother, Amarelei learned to appreciate the wondrous beauty all around her in the hearts of the valley dwellers as well as in paintings and poetry. Fenandaimie offered her daughter a glowing example of kindness, loyalty, and servitude to the members of the House of Elrond and to any edhel or elleth she encountered. Indeed empathy is a treasure most rare to the extent in which it lives in her heart. Now and in years not far gone, her mother's teachings shine out on Imladris through Amarelei's own eyes. A likeness of her mother in so many ways, Amarelei joined the keepers of the grounds of The Last Homely House, pledging herself to humble service of Master Elrond and his family and guests. It was through her mother that Amarelei also gained an increased appreciation for fine arts.

Yet as the sun rose on each new year of her life, its light never found the young elf maiden happier than when wandering the forests along lakeshores and the banks of the River Bruinen. Though the tune of her spirit's song has ever been a well-fitting harmony with the melody of the forest, it was not until Amarelei's 150th birthday that its claim on her heart was shared with Imladris. This day of her life was marked by the gift of a finely crafted spear, a symbol of her new and official commitment to the Guild of Foresters as Lhimbadhril o Imladris.

Even more valuable to the young Amarelei than to be bestowed with a gift of such beautiful simplicity was the friendship she found in reunited family within the same season: her cousin Telelas, son of Baramaenas' brother Melagil, who until then had dwelt in Lothlorien. In each year following Telelas' arrival to Valley of Elrond from the Golden Wood, the two cousins have grown close in counsel, together adventuring throughout the forests of Imladris in practice of their skills as foresters and their bond as kin.

Though intimately she knew both trees of forest and stones of riverbed, eventually Amarelei's thoughts by day and dreams by night floated to lands beyond the sanctuary of Elrond's valley. An eager curiosity inherent in her youth brought forth the maiden from her veil of reticence into the company of the Heryn Arwen on her journey to Lothlorien.