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 Essays On Middle-earth

Yet more Sindar would have sailed to Tol Eress├лa during and after the War of the Elves and
Sauron, and probably many also left after the War of the Last Alliance. In the last years of the
Third Age many Elves passed through the Shire on their ways to the havens. Undoubtedly many
were Sindar of Eriador who were no longer content to live in Middle-earth.

The Noldor
Most of the histories of the Elves deal with the Noldor and the great tragedies of their princely
houses. Tolkien described the Noldor as the craftsmen of the Elves, and their achievements both
in Aman and Middle-earth were unrivaled by other Elves. The Noldor produced the Tengwar, the
Silmarils, the Palantiri, and the special lamps which the Eldar favored in Middle-earth. They
glowed a soft silver or blue. In Middle-earth the Noldor created the Rings of Power, which may
have surpassed all their other artifacts in power and worth, even the Silmarils, since the Rings
were designed to help the Elves preserve and heal their folk in Middle-earth.

The Noldor established four kingdoms in
Beleriand: Hithlum, Nevrast (which later
was abandoned for Gondolin),
Nargothrond, and the March of
Maedhros. Hithlum, Nargothrond, and
the March played the greatest roles in the
wars against Morgoth, but each was in
turn destroyed by the enemy and its
people were slain, enslaved, or
dispersed.

The Noldor of Beleriand were driven to
refuges in Ossiriand and the isle of
Balar, and it may be this division was
reproduced in the Second Age when
many Noldor passed east from Lindon to
settle in Eregion. Those Noldor who
were most likely to remain with Gil-
galad in Lindon would have been the
folk who lived with him in Balar.
Equally so, the Noldor most likely to
desire a close alliance and friendship
with the Dwarves of Khazad-dum would
have been the F├лanorians who in
Beleriand had been closely allied with
the Dwarves of Ered Luin.
The Host of Nargothrond
Copyright ┬й Anke Eissmann. Used by permission.

Gil-galad's realm in Lindon lasted throughout the Second Age. His chief (and perhaps only city)
was the haven of Forlond. The Sindar of Harlindon probably lived in and around the haven of
Harlond, which after their migration eastward may have become a Noldorin city.