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Tolkien did not record what the Noldor of Lindon achieved aside from their successful wars
against Sauron. Gil-galad ruled much of Eriador as well as Lindon and he defended the lands
between Ered Luin and Hithaeglir as much as he could.

Gil-galad built the three towers overlooking the sea which stood upon the Tower Hills beyond
the Shire. These were the last expression of Noldorin craftsmanship in Tolkien's writings. All the
other great havens and artifacts had long since been constructed when Gil-galad built the towers
for Elendil.

Under Gil-galad the Noldor fielded their last great army in Middle-earth. Yet though Elrond said
the Host of the Alliance was greater than any army except the Host of Valinor which had
destroyed Thangorodrim at the end of the First Age, the Noldor of Lindon were only a single
contingent in the Last Alliance's army. More than likely they were only equal to a fraction of the
great numbers of warriors the Noldor had fielded in the First Age.

After Gil-galad's fall the Noldor continued to live in Lindon and Imladris, and some few may
have still lived in Lorien, or perhaps settled there with Galadriel. The Noldor marched to war
under Cirdan and Elrond but they could not raise as great an army as Gil-galad had, and as the
centuries passed by many sailed over Sea, leaving behind diminished enclaves.

By the end of the Third Age neither Cirdan nor Elrond could field an army any longer, and even
together they lacked the power to withstand Sauron for any length of time. In the Fourth Age a
few Noldor remained at Imladris for a long time, and probably some more stayed in Mithlond
and Lindon, but they faded from history and became nothing more than a memory.

The Noldor who stayed in Aman during the First Age continued to live in Tirion but their city
must have seemed a mere shadow of its former self. Finarfin ruled them and he led their
contingent in the Host of Valinor. Except for one event, we hear no more of them after the War
of Wrath, but those Noldor who left Middle-earth settled in Avallon├л or other places in Tol
Eress├лa and with the Sindar of that land they continued in friendship with the Dunedain of
Numenor.

It is said in "Akallabeth" that Ar-Pharaz├┤n led an army up to Tirion, and all the Elves (Noldor)
fled away from the city. The Valar laid down their guardianship of the world and they appealed
to Iluvatar, who gave to them the authority to change the world and punish the Numenoreans.
Ar-Pharazon and his army were buried by a great landslide that must also have destroyed the
ancient city of the Elves.

So, in all likelihood, the Noldor of Aman must have been forced to relocate inside Valinor, or
later had to build a new city somewhere in Eldamar.

If the Palantiri were truly made by F├лanor as Tolkien suggests, they must have been left in Tirion
(or other places in Aman) and only late in the Second Age gathered together in Avallon├л. But
this seems too much a contrivance to fit with the legend of the Master Stone which was set in