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Though none of the Teleri went into Exile, a few of the Vanyar did, for they were spouses or
children of Noldor. Elenw├л, wife of Turgon, son of Fingolfin, was one of these. Yet she perished
in the crossing of the Grinding Ice and she never saw the beauty of Gondolin, her husband's
beloved city, which fell last of the Eldarin realms in Middle-earth.




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 Essays On Middle-earth

In Middle-earth F├лanor soon perished from wounds gained in battle, and though seeing at last the
fruitless nature of his war he laid it upon his sons to fulfill their terrible oath. Yet Maedhros the
eldest was soon captured by Melkor's forces, and the Noldor withdrew into Hithlum,
accomplishing nothing. When Fingolfin led the greater part of their people into Hithlum, the
Noldor saw the sun rise for the first time (after it was created by the Valar from the last leaf of
Laurelin).

In time, to heal the rift between the hosts of the Noldor, Fingon rescued Maedhros from the
peaks of Thangorodrim where Melkor had bound the Noldorin king. But Maedhros ceded the
kingship to Fingolfin, concluding the reconciliation of their people, and fulfilling the Prophecy
which said he and his brethren would be the Dispossessed.

In the centuries which followed the Noldor established several kingdoms, and they befriended
the Sindar, the Grey-Elves of Beleriand, who were Eglath, the Falathrim, and the Laegrim
(Nandor who had fled to Beleriand when Melkor's creatures began to afflict Middle-earth). And
they also had the aid of the Naugrim, the Dwarves. But though they fought valiantly and were
aided by the Atani (the Edain), the Eldar failed utterly, and all their kingdoms save a few small
refuges were destroyed one-by-one. Yet the greatest evils they inflicted upon themselves. For
when Beren, an Adan of the First House, declared his love for Luthien, daughter of Elw├л
(Thingol) and Melian, Elw├л commanded Beren to retrieve a Silmaril from Melkor's crown as the
bride-price.




Beren Recovers a Silmaril
Copyright ┬й Anke Eissmann. Used by permission.




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Beren's quest led to the death of Finrod, eldest son of Finarfin and King of Nargothrond; and in
time Beren himself was slain by the Wolf of Angband, but the Silmaril was recovered. Then
Beren and Luthien, who had died in body and beseeched Namo for a reprieve, returned to life
and they lived apart from Men and Elves. But she had chosen mortality and alone of all the Eldar