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Sauron also launched attacks on Thranduil's realm and Lorien just prior to and during the War of
the Ring. In the end, Thranduil and Celeborn were victorious against Sauron's armies and in a
way the Silvan Elves flourished in the Fourth Age as they never had before, since they expanded
to four regions of settlement from two and enjoyed a renewed friendship with Men: Thranduil
was allied with the Men of Dale and Legolas was allied with the Men of Gondor.

The Sindar
In THE LORD OF THE RINGS Tolkien gives the impression that the Sindar were all of one
people, and yet we learn in THE SILMARILLION that there were two groups of Teleri who
became Sindar and a third group who joined them. The Grey-elves had a very complex culture
by the time the Noldor showed up.

Consider that the Eglath lived in Doriath and Dorthonion; the Falathrim lived in Brithombar,
Eglarest, and Nevrast; the Laegrim (Green-Elves) lived in Ossiriand and Doriath; and there were
Elves living in Hithlum who were Sindar, either related to the Eglath or the Falathrim, or perhaps
both.

The Eglath of Doriath traded extensively with the Dwarves of Nogrod and Belegost, the
Falathrim, and probably with the Laegrim. Menegroth was the greatest Elven city of the First
Age (in Middle-earth) and unrivaled in beauty and complexity by any other city built in Middle-
earth in that age or any others.

Under the tutelage of Melian the Maia and the Dwarves of Nogrod and Belegost the Sindar
became master weavers, smiths, stone-masons, carpenters, and warriors. They were also
consummate hunters and foresters, but though the Laegrim refused to cut trees the Eglath and
Falathrim used wood extensively.

The Sindar produced the Cirth, the grey fabric which the Elves used to "blend" in with their
surroundings, were great mariners, and generally achieved a civilization that was nearly as high
and noble as the Elven civilization of Aman.

After the First Age of the Sun the Sindar led the great Elvish migrations into the east, and
Tolkien recorded in one tradition that Eriador was largely settled by Sindar and Nandor early in
the Second Age. There were also Sindar in Eregion, though most of the Elves who dwelt there
were Noldor.

After the War of the Elves and Sauron the Sindar seem to have been absorbed into the Silvan
Elves of Lorien and Greenwood, or they settled in Lindon. Unlike the Noldor their history as a
separate, active people in Middle-earth ended with the war.

Most of the Sindar sailed over Sea at the end of the First Age. They settled on Tol Eress├лa in the
haven of Avallon├л and are forgotten, but they seem not to have totally departed from the annals
of Men. The Eldar of Tol Eress├лa sailed to Numenor on many occasions, bringing gifts and lore
with them, and they acted as the messengers of Manw├л during the reigns of Tar-Ciryatan and
Tar-Atanamir.