Eldar
Also calledPeople of the Stars, Edhil, The West-elves, High Elves (of the Calaquendi)
The Eldar are the Elves who answered the call of the Valar and marched west from Cuiviénen: the three kindreds of the Vanyar, Noldor and Teleri. Whether they reached Aman or stopped short in Beleriand, they are the Elves whose deeds fill the histories, as distinct from the Avari who refused the journey.
Description
Meaning of the name
When Oromë first found the Elves at Cuiviénen he named them all Eldar, the People of the Stars, in the tongue of Valinor. After the Sundering the name narrowed. Only those who accepted the summons of the Valar and began the Great Journey kept it; those who stayed became the Avari. In later usage among Men the Eldar were sometimes called the High Elves or the West-elves, though strictly the High Elves are only those Eldar who dwelt in Aman.
The three kindreds
The Eldar set out in three hosts, each under the ambassador who had seen the light of the Trees. The smallest and first were the Vanyar under Ingwë, fair-haired and closest to the Valar, who reached Aman and never left it. The second host were the Noldor under Finwë, the Deep Elves, lovers of knowledge and craft, whose rebellion and exile are the matter of the Silmarillion. The largest and slowest host were the Teleri, the Last-comers, under the brothers Elwë and Olwë; they were repeatedly divided on the road, and from them descend the Falmari of Alqualondë, the Sindar of Beleriand, and the Nandor who turned aside east of the mountains.
Calaquendi and Úmanyar
Not all Eldar completed the journey. Those who came to Aman and saw the Two Trees were the Calaquendi, the Elves of the Light: all the Vanyar, all the Noldor, and the Falmari. Those who set out but never crossed the Sea were the Úmanyar, those not of Aman: the Sindar, Nandor and Laiquendi. The Úmanyar were counted among the Moriquendi, the Dark Elves, together with the Avari, but they remained Eldar and had a claim on the kinship and the histories of the West that the Avari did not. Thingol, king of the Sindar, had himself seen the Trees and was numbered among the Calaquendi though his people were not.
The Great Journey
The march from Cuiviénen to the shores of the Great Sea was the formative event of Eldarin history. It took many years by the count of the Trees. The Eldar crossed rivers and mountains in the east, lingered long beside the Anduin, and passed the Misty Mountains with Oromë leading. Some Teleri feared the mountains and stayed behind under Lenwë. The rest came at last into Beleriand, where the Vanyar and Noldor were ferried across the Sea by Ulmo on a floating island. The Teleri waited on the shores, and while they waited Elwë vanished into Nan Elmoth with Melian. When Ulmo returned, Olwë led most of the Teleri to Aman, but the followers of Elwë stayed, and the seafaring Falathrim under Círdan stayed with them.
History
In Aman the Eldar became the pupils of the Valar and grew to the height of their power. The Vanyar settled at the feet of Taniquetil; the Noldor built Tirion on the hill of Túna in the Calacirya; the Teleri built Alqualondë on the coast. It was among the Noldor that Melkor spread his lies after his release, and the Eldar of Aman were split when the Noldor went into exile. The Vanyar and Falmari stayed; the Noldor returned to Middle-earth and there met their Sindarin kin, who had built Doriath and the Havens of the Falas in the long years apart.
The Eldar of Beleriand, Exiles and Sindar together, fought the war of the Jewels, and lost it. What remained of them after the War of Wrath was given the choice to return to Aman; many took it, and Tol Eressëa was peopled again. Those who stayed became the Eldar of the Second and Third Ages: the folk of Lindon and Eregion, and the households of Rivendell and Lothlórien. The Vanyar left Aman only once, to march in the host of the Valar against Morgoth.
Relations with other peoples
The Eldar were the friends and teachers of the Edain and the Númenóreans, and the Elves of Tol Eressëa sailed to Númenor in the days of its friendship with the West. They kept the ancient enmity with Morgoth's creatures and a wary trade with the Dwarves. Toward the Avari the Eldar of Aman felt little; the Sindar and Nandor mingled with them in the east, and some Avari were absorbed into the Silvan folk.
Fate
The Calaquendi of Middle-earth departed almost entirely at the end of the Third Age, and the Úmanyar who remained faded or followed. In Aman the Eldar endure, and there, the tales say, they will remain until the world is changed.
Physical traits
The Eldar of Aman were the greatest of all Elves in stature and strength, and the light of the Two Trees remained in the faces and eyes of those who had seen them. Among the kindreds the Vanyar were golden-haired, the Noldor mostly dark, and the Teleri silver or dark; grey eyes were common in the house of Finwë. The Úmanyar were of the same blood but had not the light of Aman, and Men could see the difference between a High Elf and a Grey-elf in the eyes.
Culture
The Eldar made two great languages. Quenya was refined in Aman, and after Thingol banned it in Beleriand it became a tongue of ceremony and lore among the Exiles; Sindarin, developed by the Sindar in the long twilight of Beleriand, became the common speech of all the Eldar in Middle-earth. Each kindred had its own genius: verse and song among the Vanyar, craft and learning among the Noldor, music and shipwrighting among the Teleri. The Eldar were ruled by kings, but a king's lordship was by descent and consent; the High Kingship of the Noldor passed from Finwë through Fingolfin, Fingon, Turgon and Gil-galad and then ceased.
Origins
The Eldar became a distinct people at the moment of the Sundering, when the three ambassadors returned from Aman and the Elves of Cuiviénen divided between those who would go and those who would not. The name they kept was the one Oromë had given to all the Elves at the first meeting.
Fate
The Eldar of Aman remain in the Undying Lands. The Eldar of Middle-earth diminished through the Second and Third Ages and departed almost wholly after the War of the Ring, with only a few, such as Celeborn for a time and the Silvan folk of Thranduil, lingering into the Fourth Age.
Sub-kindreds3
- Kindred
The Vanyar, the Fair Elves, are the first and smallest kindred of the Eldar, golden-haired followers of Ingwë. They completed the Great Journey and settled beside the Valar in Valinor, leaving it only once, to march against Morgoth in the War of Wrath.
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The Noldor are the Deep Elves, the second kindred of the Eldar and the greatest in craft and knowledge, whose king Finwë led them to Aman. Their rebellion under Fëanor, their exile to Middle-earth and their doomed war for the Silmarils are the central matter of the Elder Days.
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The Teleri are the third and largest kindred of the Eldar, the Singers and Last-comers, who lagged on the Great Journey and were divided again and again. From them descend the Sea-elves of Alqualondë, the Grey-elves of Beleriand, and the Nandor and Silvan folk of the wide lands east of the mountains.
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Of the wider kindred
High King of the Noldor (claimed)
Fëanor
NoldorFëanor, eldest son of Finwë, was the greatest craftsman and the most fiery spirit ever born among the Elves, maker of the Silmarils and of the Tengwar. His Oath to recover the jewels from Morgoth drove the Noldor into rebellion and exile, brought about the Kinslaying at Alqualondë, and shaped the whole tragedy of the First Age.
Tirion, then FormenosHigh King of the Noldor
Fingolfin
NoldorFingolfin, eldest son of Finwë and Indis, was the first High King of the Noldor in Middle-earth, who led his people across the grinding ice of the Helcaraxë after Fëanor abandoned them. He held Hithlum through the long Siege of Angband and died in single combat with Morgoth at the gates of Angband, the most famous duel of the Elder Days.
HithlumKing of Nargothrond
Finrod
NoldorFinrod Felagund, eldest son of Finarfin, was the wisest and most generous of the Noldorin princes in exile. He founded Nargothrond, was the first Elf-lord to befriend Men, and kept his oath to Barahir by going with Beren on the quest of the Silmaril; he died in Sauron's dungeon killing a werewolf with his bare hands to save his mortal friend.
NargothrondLady of Lothlórien
Galadriel
NoldorGaladriel, only daughter of Finarfin and the greatest of the Noldor after Fëanor, left Valinor in the rebellion, learned wisdom from Melian in Doriath, and outlived every other leader of the Exiles by three Ages. Bearer of Nenya, founder with Celeborn of the realm of Lórien, and a member of the White Council, she refused the One Ring when Frodo offered it, threw down Dol Guldur, and at last sailed West with the Ring-bearers.
LothlórienHigh King of the Noldor
Gil-galad
NoldorEreinion Gil-galad was the last High King of the Noldor in Middle-earth. Sent to the Havens as a child, he took up the kingship after the fall of Gondolin, ruled Lindon through the whole of the Second Age, refused Sauron the gates of his realm, received two of the Three Rings, and led the Last Alliance of Elves and Men with Elendil. He died with Elendil on the slopes of Mount Doom overthrowing Sauron.
LindonPrince of the Woodland Realm
Legolas
Silvan ElvesLegolas, son of Thranduil of the Woodland Realm, was the Elf of the Fellowship of the Ring. A peerless archer and tracker, he walked from Rivendell to the Black Gate beside Aragorn and Gimli, forged the first true friendship between Elf and Dwarf in an age, and after the death of the King Elessar built a ship and sailed into the West with his Dwarven friend.
The Woodland Realm, later IthilienPrincess of Doriath
Lúthien
SindarLúthien, daughter of King Thingol and the Maia Melian, was the fairest of all the Children of Ilúvatar. For love of the mortal Beren she overcame Sauron, put Morgoth himself to sleep in his own hall, and won a Silmaril from the Iron Crown; she then moved Mandos to pity and chose mortality so that she and Beren might not be parted. Every line of the Half-elven descends from her.
Doriath, later Tol GalenLord of Himring
Maedhros
NoldorMaedhros, eldest son of Fëanor, was the tallest and most temperate of the seven brothers, the captive of Thangorodrim rescued by Fingon, and the lord of Himring who anchored the eastern Siege of Angband. Bound by the Oath, he led the last two Kinslayings and ended his life by casting himself and a Silmaril into a chasm of fire.
Himring and the March of MaedhrosKing of Doriath
Thingol
SindarElwë Singollo, called Thingol, led the Teleri on the Great Journey, met the Maia Melian in Nan Elmoth and never left Middle-earth again. As King of Doriath he ruled the Sindar for the whole of the First Age, set Beren the impossible price of a Silmaril for his daughter Lúthien, and was slain in his own treasury by Dwarves over the jewel he had once demanded.
DoriathKing of Gondolin
Turgon
NoldorTurgon, second son of Fingolfin, was the founder and king of the hidden city of Gondolin, built in secret at Ulmo's prompting and kept from Morgoth for nearly four centuries. He became High King of the Noldor after the Nirnaeth, received Tuor and Ulmo's warning, and died when the city fell through the treason of his nephew Maeglin.
GondolinPrincess of the Noldor
Aredhel
NoldorAredhel, the White Lady of the Noldor, was the daughter of Fingolfin and sister of Fingon and Turgon, a restless huntress who left Gondolin, was taken to wife by the Dark Elf Eöl, and bore him Maeglin. Fleeing back to Gondolin, she died of a poisoned javelin her husband had thrown at their son.
GondolinChief of the Marchwardens of Doriath
Beleg
SindarBeleg Strongbow, chief of the marchwardens of Doriath and the greatest woodsman of the Sindar, was the friend and teacher of Túrin. He followed Túrin into outlawry and into the enemy's country to save him, and died at his hand in the dark of Taur-nu-Fuin, killed by mistake with the very sword he had carried to the rescue.
DoriathLord of Lothlórien
Celeborn
SindarCeleborn, a Sindarin prince of Doriath and the husband of Galadriel, outlasted three Ages of Middle-earth as lord of the Galadhrim. He shared the rule of Lothlórien with his wife, led the host that stormed Dol Guldur at the end of the War of the Ring, held East Lórien for a season of the Fourth Age, and at last, when the Golden Wood had emptied, went to Rivendell and thence over the Sea.
LothlórienLord of Eregion
Celebrimbor
NoldorCelebrimbor, grandson of Fëanor, renounced his father Curufin's deeds and became the greatest smith of the Second Age. As lord of the Elven-smiths of Eregion he was deceived by Sauron in the guise of Annatar and forged the Rings of Power, but he made the Three alone and hid them when he perceived the One. Sauron destroyed Eregion and slew him, and his body was borne as a banner before the enemy host.
EregionLord of Himlad
Celegorm
NoldorCelegorm the Fair, third son of Fëanor, was a hunter and friend of Oromë, master of the great hound Huan. With his brother Curufin he seized Lúthien in Nargothrond and tried to force a marriage, lost Huan and his honour, and died in the sack of Doriath at the hands of Dior.
HimladLord of the Falas
Círdan
SindarCírdan the Shipwright, a Telerin kinsman of Thingol who stayed on the shores of Middle-earth when the ships sailed West, was lord of the Falas in the First Age and of the Grey Havens through the Second and Third. He built the ships of the Elves for three Ages, bore the Ring of Fire until he gave it to Gandalf, and remained at the Havens until the last ship should sail.
The Falas; afterwards Lindon and the Grey HavensLord of Himlad
Curufin
NoldorCurufin the Crafty, fifth son of Fëanor, was the son most like his father in skill and temper, and the father of Celebrimbor. With Celegorm he schemed for the lordship of Nargothrond, tried to kill Lúthien, and was repudiated by his own son; he died in the sack of Doriath.
HimladHigh King of the Noldor
Fingon
NoldorFingon the Valiant, eldest son of Fingolfin, rescued Maedhros from Thangorodrim and so healed the breach in the Noldor, drove Glaurung back at his first appearance, and succeeded his father as High King. He was slain by Gothmog at the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, the battle he had helped to plan.
HithlumLord of the House of the Golden Flower
Glorfindel
NoldorGlorfindel was lord of the House of the Golden Flower in Gondolin, golden-haired and reckoned among the mightiest of the Noldor of the Hidden City. He died killing a Balrog above the pass of Cirith Thoronath so that the refugees of Gondolin could escape, and by long tradition he is the same Glorfindel who returned to Middle-earth, routed the Witch-king at Fornost, carried Frodo to the Ford of Bruinen, and sat at the Council of Elrond.
Gondolin, later RivendellPrincess of Gondolin
Idril
NoldorIdril Celebrindal, only child of Turgon of Gondolin, married the mortal Tuor and bore Eärendil, the mariner who saved both kindreds. Her foresight built the secret way out of the hidden city, and by it she led the survivors of Gondolin's fall to safety. She was the second union of Elves and Men, and the ancestress of the Half-elven.
GondolinLord of the House of the Mole
Maeglin
NoldorMaeglin was the son of Eöl the Dark Elf and Aredhel of the Noldor, born in the shadowed wood of Nan Elmoth and brought by his mother to Gondolin, where he rose to be the greatest of Turgon's counsellors. His unlawful desire for his cousin Idril soured into hatred; taken alive by Orcs, he bought his own life and the promise of Idril by telling Morgoth where the hidden city lay, and Tuor threw him from its walls when it burned.
GondolinLord of Maglor's Gap
Maglor
NoldorMaglor, second son of Fëanor, was the greatest singer and harper of the Noldor, who held the gap between Himring and the Blue Mountains and fostered Elrond and Elros after the Third Kinslaying. Last of his brothers, he cast his Silmaril into the Sea and wandered the shores of Middle-earth in grief, singing.
Maglor's GapKing of the Woodland Realm
Thranduil
SindarThranduil, son of Oropher, ruled the Silvan Elves of northern Mirkwood from underground halls for the whole of the Third Age. He led the remnant of his father's host home from the Last Alliance, imprisoned Thorin's company, fought at the Battle of Five Armies, held Gollum as a prisoner, and in the War of the Ring defeated the assault of Dol Guldur under his own trees.
The Woodland Realm in northern MirkwoodLord of Dorthonion
Aegnor
NoldorAegnor, youngest son of Finarfin, held the northern slopes of Dorthonion with his brother Angrod for four centuries of the Siege of Angband. His name means Fell Fire, for the fierceness of his spirit in battle, and he died in the flames of the Dagor Bragollach beside his brother.
DorthonionLords of the south of East Beleriand
Amrod and Amras
NoldorAmrod and Amras, the red-haired twin sons of Fëanor and the youngest of the seven, were hunters who held the wide woods of southern East Beleriand. They followed their brothers through every battle and both Kinslayings in Beleriand and died together in the assault on the Havens of Sirion.
East Beleriand south of the AndramKing of Lórien
Amroth
SindarAmroth, King of Lórien after Amdír, loved the Silvan maiden Nimrodel. When the Balrog woke in Moria and she fled south, he followed her to the havens of Belfalas; waiting there for her in vain, he leapt from his ship in a storm and drowned. Cerin Amroth in Lórien and Dol Amroth in Gondor bear his name.
LórienLord of Dorthonion
Angrod
NoldorAngrod, third son of Finarfin, held the northern highlands of Dorthonion with his brother Aegnor through the Siege of Angband. He was the first of the Noldor to be received by Thingol as a messenger, and the one who, stung by Caranthir's insult, told the king the whole truth of the Kinslaying. He died in the fires of the Dagor Bragollach.
DorthonionLord of Thargelion
Caranthir
NoldorCaranthir the Dark, fourth son of Fëanor, was the harshest and quickest to anger of the brothers, lord of Thargelion beside Lake Helevorn. He grew rich in trade with the Dwarves, quarrelled with the house of Finarfin, took in the people of Haleth, and died in the sack of Doriath.
ThargelionLady of Rivendell
Celebrían
NoldorCelebrían, daughter of Galadriel and Celeborn, married Elrond of Rivendell and bore him Elladan, Elrohir and Arwen. In T.A. 2509 she was captured and tormented by Orcs in the Redhorn Pass; though rescued by her sons and healed in body by Elrond, she could find no joy in Middle-earth and sailed into the West the following year.
Lothlórien, then RivendellMinstrel of Doriath
Daeron
SindarDaeron, minstrel and loremaster of Thingol's court, was the greatest of all Elven singers and the deviser of the Cirth, the runes later used by Dwarves and Men. He loved Lúthien, twice betrayed her to her father out of jealousy, and after she left the world he wandered into the East lamenting her and was never heard of again.
DoriathLord of the House of the Fountain
Ecthelion
NoldorEcthelion of the Fountain was lord of one of the twelve houses of Gondolin and the warden of its Great Gate, a captain famous for the beauty of his voice and the music of his people's flutes. When the Hidden City was stormed he held the square before the king's tower against the Balrogs, and there he and Gothmog their lord destroyed each other.
GondolinLord of Nan Elmoth
Eöl
SindarEöl the Dark Elf, a kinsman of Thingol who chose the shadowed wood of Nan Elmoth over Doriath, was a smith of surpassing skill who forged the black swords Anglachel and Anguirel. He took Aredhel of Gondolin as his wife, fathered Maeglin, and when they escaped him he followed them to the hidden city, killed Aredhel with a poisoned javelin meant for their son, and was thrown from the walls.
Nan ElmothKing of the Noldor in Aman
Finarfin
NoldorFinarfin, youngest son of Finwë and Indis, was the wisest and fairest of the princes of the Noldor. He alone turned back from the rebellion after the Doom of Mandos and ruled the Noldor who remained in Tirion; his children Finrod, Orodreth, Angrod, Aegnor and Galadriel went on to Middle-earth.
TirionPrincess of Nargothrond
Finduilas
NoldorFinduilas, daughter of Orodreth and granddaughter of Finarfin, was the last princess of Nargothrond. Betrothed to Gwindor before the Nirnaeth, she could not love the broken thrall who came back from Angband and gave her heart instead to Túrin, who would not take her. She was taken in the sack of the city, speared to a tree by the Orcs at the Crossings of Teiglin, and buried in the mound called Haudh-en-Elleth.
NargothrondKing of the Noldor
Finwë
NoldorFinwë is the first King of the Noldor, who led his people to Aman as one of the three ambassadors and ruled them in Tirion. Father of Fëanor by Míriel and of Fingolfin and Finarfin by Indis, he was slain by Melkor at Formenos, the first death by violence in the Blessed Realm.
TirionPrince of Nargothrond
Gwindor
NoldorGwindor, son of Guilin and a prince of Nargothrond, charged out of the line at the Nirnaeth Arnoediad in grief for his brother Gelmir and so broke the plan of the battle. Taken alive and enslaved in Angband for fourteen years, he escaped, guided Beleg to Túrin, brought Túrin to Nargothrond, lost Finduilas to him, and died at Tumhalad warning him that her life stood between him and his doom.
NargothrondMarchwarden of Lothlórien
Haldir
Silvan ElvesHaldir was a marchwarden of the Galadhrim who, with his brothers Rúmil and Orophin, met the Fellowship of the Ring at the northern border of Lothlórien in January T.A. 3019, guided them across the Celebrant and through the wood to Caras Galadhon, and led them out again to the Anduin at their departure.
LothlórienKing of the Vanyar
Ingwë
VanyarIngwë is the king of the Vanyar and, by right of being first of the three ambassadors to see the light of the Trees, the High King of all the Elves. He led the first host of the Great Journey to Aman and never returned to Middle-earth.
ValinorCaptain of Doriath
Mablung
SindarMablung of the Heavy Hand was the chief captain of Thingol's Doriath. He cut the Silmaril from the belly of Carcharoth, fought at the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, escorted Morwen and Nienor toward Nargothrond and lost them to Glaurung's malice, and died defending the Silmaril in Menegroth when the Dwarves of Nogrod sacked the Thousand Caves.
Doriath- Sindar
Nimrodel was an Elf-maiden of Lothlórien who lived beside the mountain stream that bears her name and was loved by Amroth the king. She fled the wood when the Balrog woke in Moria and was lost in the White Mountains on the way to the sea; her story became a song that Legolas sang to the Fellowship at the stream's edge.
Lothlórien King of the Teleri of Aman
Olwë
TeleriOlwë, brother of Elwë Thingol, led the Teleri who completed the Great Journey to Aman after his brother was lost, and became King of the Falmari at the Swanhaven of Alqualondë. He refused Fëanor the ships of his people, and the Noldor took them by force in the first Kinslaying. Through his daughter Eärwen he was the grandfather of Finrod and Galadriel.
AlqualondëKing of Nargothrond
Orodreth
NoldorOrodreth, second son of Finarfin in the published Silmarillion, held the tower on Tol Sirion until Sauron drove him out, and became King of Nargothrond when his brother Finrod left on the quest of the Silmaril. Under the sway of Túrin he abandoned the secrecy that had kept the city safe, and he was slain at the battle of Tumhalad in the year Nargothrond fell.
NargothrondKing of the Silvan Elves of Greenwood the Great
Oropher
SindarOropher, a Sindarin lord of Doriath, led his people east after the drowning of Beleriand and was taken as king by the Silvan Elves of Greenwood the Great. He founded the Woodland Realm, withdrew it northward from Dwarves and Noldor alike, and died in a rash charge at the Battle of Dagorlad, leaving the crown to his son Thranduil.
Greenwood the GreatMariner of Gondolin
Voronwë
NoldorVoronwë, son of Aranwë of Gondolin, was the only survivor of the ships Turgon sent to seek Valinor. Spared by Ulmo and cast ashore at Nevrast, he met Tuor at Vinyamar and guided him through the Fell Winter to the hidden city, so that Ulmo's warning reached Turgon.
GondolinKing of Lórien
Amdír
SindarAmdír was the Sindarin king of the Silvan Elves of Lórien in the Second Age and the father of Amroth. He led his people to the Last Alliance and was slain at the Battle of Dagorlad when his lightly armed host was cut off and driven into the marshes.
LórienLord of the Laiquendi
Denethor
NandorDenethor, son of Lenwë, led part of the Nandor over the Blue Mountains into Ossiriand, where they became the Green-elves and were welcomed by Thingol as kin. He was slain on Amon Ereb in the First Battle of Beleriand before the rising of the Sun, and his people never took another king.
Ossiriand- Noldor
Gildor Inglorion, a Noldo of the House of Finrod, led the company of wandering Elves who met Frodo, Sam and Pippin in the Woody End on the first night of their journey, drove off a Black Rider by their coming, and sent word of the Ring-bearer's peril across Eriador. He passed West with the last riding of the Elves in T.A. 3021.
Wandering; Rivendell and Lindon Queen of the Noldor
Indis
VanyarIndis of the Vanyar was the second wife of Finwë and the mother of Fingolfin and Finarfin. Through her the golden hair of the Vanyar entered the royal house of the Noldor, and her marriage was the occasion of Fëanor's lifelong estrangement from his half-brothers.
TirionLeader of the Nandor
Lenwë
TeleriLenwë was the Telerin Elf who, daunted by the Misty Mountains, turned aside from the Great Journey with a part of Olwë's host at the river Anduin. Those who followed him became the Nandor, the wood-elves of the river vales from whom the Silvan Elves of Lórien and Mirkwood descended.
The Vales of AnduinQueen of the Noldor
Míriel
NoldorMíriel Serindë was the first wife of Finwë and the mother of Fëanor, the most skilled needleworker among the Noldor. Worn out by the birth of her son, she chose to release her spirit to Mandos and refused ever to return, and her death opened the rift in the house of Finwë.
Tirion- Noldor
Nerdanel, daughter of the smith Mahtan, was the wife of Fëanor and the mother of his seven sons. A sculptor of great skill and a woman of patience and judgement, she alone could restrain her husband for a time; she parted from him before the flight of the Noldor and remained in Aman.
Tirion Queen of Doriath
Nimloth
SindarNimloth, a Sindarin lady of the royal house of Doriath and kinswoman of Celeborn, married Dior, the son of Beren and Lúthien, and was the mother of Eluréd, Elurín and Elwing. She was slain with her husband when the sons of Fëanor sacked Menegroth in the Second Kinslaying.
DoriathCounsellor of Thingol
Saeros
SindarSaeros was an Elf of Doriath, one of Thingol's counsellors, who envied Túrin the king's favour and mocked him and the women of his people at the king's table. His taunts and the ambush he set the next morning ended with his own death in the gorge of the Esgalduin, and drove Túrin out of Doriath into outlawry.
Doriath
Relations with other peoples
- Descended fromElves
- Related toAvari(the kin who refused the journey)
- Allied withValar(summoned to Aman and taught by them)
- Allied withEdain
- Allied withNúmenóreans(friendship of Tol Eressëa and Númenor; the Last Alliance)
- Related toElves(the Elves who accepted the summons of the Valar)
- Descended fromNoldor
- Descended fromTeleri
- Descended fromVanyar
Places
Timeline
- Y.T. 1085
Oromë names the Elves Eldar
At the first meeting Oromë gives the Quendi the name People of the Stars; it will later belong only to those who follow him.
- Y.T. 1102
The Sundering
The three ambassadors return from Aman; those who agree to go become the Eldar, those who refuse the Avari.
- Y.T. 1105
Departure from Cuiviénen
The Vanyar, Noldor and Teleri begin the march west.
- Y.T. 1115
Lenwë turns aside
A part of the Teleri refuse the Misty Mountains and go south down the Anduin; they become the Nandor.
- Y.T. 1132
Vanyar and Noldor cross the Sea
Ulmo draws the first two hosts to Aman on a floating island.
- Y.T. 1152
Division of the Teleri
Olwë's people sail to Aman; the followers of Elwë and the Falathrim of Círdan remain and become the Sindar.
- Y.T. 1497
Flight of the Noldor
The greater part of the Noldor leave Aman in rebellion; the Vanyar and Falmari remain.
- F.A. 20
Mereth Aderthad
The Feast of Reuniting at Ivrin brings Exiles and Sindar together for the first time in council.
- F.A. 587
The Vanyar go to war
The host of the Valar, with the Vanyar and some Noldor of Aman, overthrows Morgoth in the War of Wrath.
- S.A. 1
Lindon founded
Gil-galad and Círdan gather the remaining Eldar of Beleriand on the coasts west of the Blue Mountains.
- S.A. 3441
Death of Gil-galad
The last High King of the Eldar in Middle-earth falls before Barad-dûr.
- T.A. 3021
The last ship of the Keepers
Elrond and Galadriel depart; the Eldar's stewardship of Middle-earth ends.
Sources
- The SilmarillionQuenta Silmarillion chapters 3 to 5; Index of Names
- The Lord of the Rings: AppendicesAppendix F, Of the Elves
- Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earthPart Two, The History of Galadriel and Celeborn
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