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 Essays On Middle-earth

The three groups of Quendi who undertook the Great Journey were ever after known as the
Eldar, the people of the Stars, even though this name Orom├л had originally given to all their race.
Those who remained in Cuivi├лnen became known as the Avari, the Unwilling, for they refused
the summons of the Valar.

The Teleri became divided on their long road. The first division arose when Lenw├л, one of their
chieftains, turned aside at the Anduin. He led away perhaps a third of the Teleri, and these
became known as the Nandor. Again, in Beleriand, while waiting for passage to Aman, the
Teleri were divided, for Elw├л was lost to the enchantments of the Maia known as Melian in the
forest of Nan Elmoth, and many of his friends and kinsmen searched for him.

When the time came for the Teleri to leave Middle-earth, those who continued to seek for Elw├л
were left behind, and they named themselves the Eglath, the Forsaken. But another group of
Teleri stayed in Middle-earth as well. These were led by Cirdan, who for the sake of the
friendship of Oss├л, Maia of the Belegaer whose charge was the coast lands of Middle-earth,
stayed to become the Falathrim, the People of the Coast.

Those Teleri who reached Aman, nearly half of the original group, were led by Olw├л. There he
became their king, but while the Vanyar and Noldor settled in Aman itself the Teleri lived a long
time on Tol Eress├лa, until Oss├л was sent to them to teach how to build ships (as he taught the
folk of Cirdan to build ships).

Ingw├л and Finw├л built the city of Tirion upon the hill of Tuna in the Calacirya, the only valley in
the Pelori. But in time Ingw├л and his people abandoned the city and they settled in many places
throughout Valinor.

Olw├л and his people settled at last on the shores of Aman, and with the aid of Ingw├л's people
they built the city of Alqualond├л, the Haven of Swans. For many ages the Eldar flourished in
Aman, increasing in number and learning much lore from the Valar and Maiar.

But Finw├л took two wives, a thing unheard of among the Eldar. Miriel, his first wife, died soon
after giving birth to F├лanor, their son. And though Finw├л was deeply grieved he wished to have
more children, and in time he married Indis, sister of Ingw├л. She bore him three daughters and
two sons: Findis, Faniel, Irim├л and Nolofinw├л and Arafinw├л. Nolofinw├л was afterwards known
as Fingolfin, greatest of the kings of the Noldor in Middle-earth.

Now, F├лanor was jealous and proud, and he had little to do with the children of Indis. But he in
time married Nerdanel, daughter of Mahtan, one of the greatest smiths of the Noldor, who had
been taught much lore by Aul├л the Vala himself. F├лanor was for long content to father his own
children (Nerdanel bore him seven sons) and to study the lore of mining and smith craft.

In time F├лanor became the greatest of the Eldar in arts, and he fashioned the Silmarils,
preserving in them forever the light of the Two Trees. This was his greatest accomplishment, but