Laindis was born and raised in Evendim, and truly the whole of nature is where she dwelled. Rarely did fear come into her heart, as she clambered up the crumbling stone hills, leapt from ridiculous heights into water and climbed her first trees of many. Below the tree was often her elder sister, Estenthel, the dutiful one, the responsible one… the one who acted as mother since their own died giving birth to Laindis. Their father Laeben did what he could to protect them, feed them, teach them what he knew, which was a decent amount for a lone mountain man. He still clung to the stories of old and told them over many a fire at night as he spoke his daughters to sleep. He also taught them how to fend for themselves, as everyone had to in the Evendim hills. Already the bandits were taking hold, and wolves howled in the dark.

Prone to roaming as soon as she could escape Estenthel’s watch, Laindis began venturing further and further south. Laeben taught her to leave the hobbits alone, seeing them as a separate people who should not be disrupted by men. Besides, he knew well they feared and suspected tall folk. So Laindis perched in trees, shrouded and silent, watching the hobbits of Oatbarton go about their business. She studied them from afar and admired them as peculiar creatures. She wished she could befriend them, but the closest she came to contact were a few stray hobbit children, who soon fled back to town.

As threats pushed down into hobbit lands, Laindis sharpened arrows and did her best to help drive trouble away. It would​ not be long before her personal interest became her sworn task. Laeben received word that the dunedain were being summoned, and though he was not usually one to suffer the company of crowds, this summons could not be ignored. So he brought Estenthel and Laindis with him to meet the call. It was not his intention that his daughters should join in any fighting. There were dangers plenty in Evendim and the dunedain were a dwindling race. They could not afford to lose the few young women they had left. But the daughters of Laeben were as stubborn as he raised them to be, and he finally relented, allowing them to answer the call of their hearts and the call of the Rangers, to protect the land of the dunedain.