THE KINSTRIFE, GONDOR'S CIVIL WAR, LASTED FROM TA 1432 TO 1448. CAUSED BY SOUTHERN DUNEDAIN BELIEVING THAT ELDACAR WAS NOT FIT FOR THE KINGSHIP SINCE HIS MOTHER WAS FROM RHOVANION AND BECAUSE OF THE ANGER OF THESE SOUTHERN DUNEDAIN OVER THE FAVOR SHOWN TO THE NORTHMEN BY VALACAR. AFTER VALACAR'S DEATH, CASTAMIR, CAPTAIN OF SHIPS FROM THE COASTS IN THE SOUTH, LED A REBELLION AGAINST ELDACAR. ELDACAR ESCAPED TO HIS MOTHER'S HOME COUNTRY, BUT HIS SON WAS CAPTURED AND SLAIN, AND CASTAMIR MADE KING. CASTAMIR, GIVING MOST OF HIS ATTENTION TO THE COASTS IN THE SOUTH, WAS HATED IN THE INLAND AREAS OF GONDOR. EXILED FOR 10 YEARS, ELDACAR RETURNED WITH AN ARMY OF NORTHMEN AND RECEIVED MUCH SUPPORT FROM THE NORTHERN AREAS OF GONDOR. WITH THIS SUPPORT CASTAMIR WAS KILLED IN THE BATTLE OF THE CROSSINGS OF ERUI, BUT CASTAMIR'S FAMILY WHICH HAD RETREATED TO PELARGIR, TOOK THE ENTIRE FLEET OF GONDOR AND SAILED TO AND MINGLED WITH UMBAR WHERE THEY BECAME THE CORSAIRS OF UMBAR WHICH TROUBLED GONDOR FOR MANY GENERATIONS TO COME.