Born in the village of Aldburg, as the only son to Fréawine and his wife Cynewyn, Eldonwynne grew up much like his father did, spending most of his young days running around and playing with the other children in the town, visiting the barrack and Inn, listening to the kings men that came and went from time to time, admiring their armours and steeds. His father, Fréawine was one of the riders that Eldonwynne looked up to a lot, after all that was his father and this was much to his fathers and mothers joy. When Eldon as he was called by his family and friends turned sixteen he wasted little time and asked his father to put a good word in for him to become one of the riders, his father did so and so it was that Eldonwynne became one of the riders, spending his days practicing with the sword, bow, spear and javelin but he found that he wielded the larger battle hammer more easily than any of the other weapons. 

Many years passed as Eldon became stronger and more skilled with the hammer until the day that he and the group of riders he was with, along with his father got ambushed by Dunlenders, fighting for their lives the riders made a stand not far from the city of Aldburg, many of the riders were slain, along with them was Fréawine, Eldon did not see his father being killed but found him afterwards on the field of battle, dead to the large wound he had due to a sword from a Dunlender. Eldon took his fathers body home to the house, his mother devastated when she saw Eldon comming with two horses but one rider missing, she ran to meet him, crying over and over her beloved husbands death, a few days later she herself was ambushed by a bear while out in the forest, her body was found a few hours later by the hunters. Now with his family gone Eldon felt he had nothing to live for back home and sat out on a trip..a trip that took him to Bree over many years.