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Avallon├л. It may be more likely that some great craftsman other than F├лanor made the Palantiri
in Tol Eress├лa and sent them to Amandil in Numenor as a gift to the Faithful.



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 Essays On Middle-earth



Of all the Eldar of Aman, only Glorfindel is named as leaving that land in the Second Age.
Tolkien decided that the Glorfindel of Imladris who aided Frodo was the same Glorfindel who
gave his life defending the column of Exiles of Gondolin against a Balrog when that ancient city
was destroyed. In the Second Age Glorfindel was released from Mandos and re-embodied. He at
some time sailed to Middle-earth and perhaps remained there long into the Fourth Age (Tolkien
does not say that Glorfindel sailed over Sea with Elrond).

The Falmari
These were the Teleri who reached Aman, and they comprised fewer than 1/3 of the Lindar who
set out on the Great Journey from Cuivi├лnen. They were probably the largest group of Teleri (if
the Eglath and Falathrim are considered to be separate groups) but still were fewer in number
than the Noldor of Aman.

The Teleri who reached Aman first lived for a long time on the isle of Tol Eress├лa, unable to
cross the sea or to commune with the other Eldar. When at last Oss├л taught them how to build
ships they sailed to Eldamar and established themselves on the shores. According to F├лanor, the
Noldor helped the Teleri build Alqualond├л, the Haven of the Swans, and it was from this time
forward that the Teleri (renamed the Falmari, the Foam-riders) and Noldor became closely
associated with one another.

Olw├л, brother of Elw├л, was the King of the Falmari. Of his family we know only that he had
more than one son and at least one daughter, ├Лarwen, who married Finarfin the youngest son of
Finw├л.

The Falmari had little to do with Valinor and the Vanyar. They did not usually attend the feasts
held in Valimar or upon the slopes of Taniquetil. Instead they spent their time on the sea or by
the shores.

The Swan-ships of the Falmari, stolen by the Noldor when that people went into Exile, were said
by Olw├л to be irreplaceable. The Teleri built new ships after the Noldor left Aman, but the nature
of the ships is not really described. A single reference to oarless ships coming from Tol Eress├лa
in "Akallabeth" suggests the Teleri perfected the design of true sailing vessels, but whether the
Falathrim of Beleriand did this, or the Falmari of Aman, or both independently Tolkien does not
say.

Since the Falmari used bows to defend their ships against the Noldor it may be that they hunted
in the woods of Eldamar. There must have been sufficient trees on both Tol Eress├лa and in
Eldamar to allow the Falmari to build their ships and bows.

Although they manned the ships that took the Host of Valinor to Beleriand, the Falmari did not