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Rhaenys Targaryen

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Visenya Targaryen

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Thaylenah

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Wizards

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The Hobbit

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Heralds of the Almighty

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Downfall of Númenor

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The '''Downfall of Númenor''' (called the '''Akallabêth''', "the Downfallen") was the cataclysmic destruction of the island-kingdom of [[Númenor]] at the end of the Second Age, when its people, corrupted by [[Sauron]] and grown proud against the ban of the [[Valar]], assailed the Undying Lands and were destroyed by the direct act of [[Eru Ilúvatar]].

== Númenor ==
Númenor was a great island in the western sea, granted by the Valar to the Edain, the Men who had aided the [[Elves]] against [[Morgoth]] in the First Age. There the [[Dúnedain]] grew tall, wise, and long-lived, building a mighty kingdom and becoming the greatest mariners of the world. But one ban was laid upon them: they might not sail west out of sight of their own shores toward the Undying Lands, which were forbidden to mortals.

== The corruption ==
As the ages passed, the Númenóreans grew ever more powerful but also more fearful of death and resentful of the ban. In the days of the last king, Ar-Pharazôn, Númenor's might was so great that Sauron suffered himself to be taken captive and brought to the island. There, as a counsellor, he corrupted the king and most of the people, turning them to the worship of Morgoth and feeding their fear of death and their envy of the immortal Valar.

== The assault and the Downfall ==
At Sauron's urging, Ar-Pharazôn raised a vast armada and sailed west to make war upon the Valar and seize immortality by force, breaking the ancient ban. When the fleet landed upon the shores of Aman, the Valar laid down their guardianship of the world and called upon Eru. Eru intervened directly: the great army of Ar-Pharazôn was buried, the island of Númenor was swallowed by the sea in a vast cataclysm, and the world was changed and made round, with the Undying Lands removed forever beyond the reach of mortal ships.

== The survivors ==
A faithful remnant, who had not joined in the rebellion, escaped the Downfall in ships led by Elendil and his sons [[Isildur]] and Anárion. They came to [[Middle-earth]] and founded the realms in exile, Arnor and [[Gondor]], carrying on the line and the heritage of Númenor. The Downfall ended the proud kingdom of the Sea-kings, but Sauron himself, though his body was destroyed, escaped to trouble the world again.

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Gondolin

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'''Gondolin''', "the Hidden City", was the greatest and most secret of the [[Noldor]] Elf-kingdoms of [[Beleriand]] in the First Age, built by King Turgon and concealed within an encircling ring of mountains. Its fall was one of the most renowned and tragic events of the Elder Days.

== Founding ==
Turgon, a lord of the Noldor, was led by the Vala Ulmo to a hidden valley called Tumladen, ringed about by the Encircling Mountains (the Echoriath), with only one secret way of entry. There, in secret over many years, he raised the white city of Gondolin upon a hill in the midst of the plain, modelling it on the fair Elven-city of Tirion in [[Valinor]]. When it was finished he led his people thither, and the way in was hidden and guarded so that no enemy could find it.

== The Hidden Kingdom ==
For ages Gondolin remained unknown to [[Morgoth]], a refuge of beauty and strength while the rest of Beleriand suffered in the wars. Its existence was one of the best-kept secrets of the age. The mortal Man Tuor was guided to it by Ulmo and wedded Turgon's daughter Idril; their son was Eärendil, who would later bear a Silmaril into the West.

== The Fall ==
Gondolin was at last betrayed. Maeglin, a kinsman of Turgon, was captured by Morgoth and, to save himself and out of jealousy, revealed the secret way into the valley. Morgoth sent a great host of [[Orc]]s, [[Balrog]]s, and dragons against the city, taking it by surprise. In the terrible sack of Gondolin, Turgon was slain and the city destroyed; Ecthelion of the Fountain perished slaying the Balrog-lord Gothmog. Tuor, Idril, and the child Eärendil escaped with a band of survivors through a secret pass, while the hero Glorfindel fell defending them in single combat with a Balrog. The fall of Gondolin marked the breaking of the last great realm of the Noldor in Beleriand.

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Glóin

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{{Infobox character
| name = Glóin
| title = son of Gróin; of Durin's Folk
| house = Durin's Folk
| race = Dwarf
| status = Living (at the time of the War of the Ring)
| region = Erebor (the Lonely Mountain)
| fate = Survived the quest of Erebor; father of Gimli
| quote = "Glóin, an old dwarf, stout and white-bearded."
}}

'''Glóin''' was a [[Dwarves|Dwarf]] of [[Durin's Folk]], one of the company of Thorin Oakenshield in the quest of ''[[The Hobbit]]'', and the father of Gimli, who became a member of the Fellowship of the Ring.

== The quest of Erebor ==
Glóin, son of Gróin, was one of the thirteen Dwarves who set out with Thorin Oakenshield and the hobbit Bilbo Baggins to reclaim [[Erebor]], the Lonely Mountain, from the dragon [[Smaug]]. He was noted as something of a fire-maker and a doughty companion. He fought in the [[Battle of Five Armies]] and afterwards dwelt in the restored kingdom under the mountain, growing wealthy and respected.

== The Council of Elrond ==
Many years later, Glóin journeyed to Rivendell as an envoy of the Dwarves of Erebor, accompanied by his son Gimli. He came partly to seek counsel: a messenger of [[Sauron]] had come to King Dáin demanding tidings of a ring and of the hobbit who had once held it, and the Dwarves were troubled. At the Council of Elrond, Glóin reported these matters and gave news of the Dwarves of the North, including the ill-fated attempt of [[Balin]] to recolonise Moria.

== Legacy ==
Glóin himself was by then too old to join the Fellowship, but his son Gimli was chosen as the representative of the Dwarves among the Nine Walkers, and so the line of Glóin played its part in the War of the Ring through his son's deeds.

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Gladden Fields

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The '''Gladden Fields''' (Sindarin '''Loeg Ningloron''') were a region of wide marshes and reed-beds where the river Gladden flowed into the [[Anduin]], between Lothlórien and the southern eaves of Mirkwood. They were the site of the disaster in which [[Isildur]] was slain and the One Ring was lost, and later the place where it was found again.

== Geography ==
The Gladden Fields lay along the eastern side of the Great River, a broad tract of fen and tall reeds named for the golden iris-flowers (gladdens) that grew there. The Gladden stream descended from the [[Misty Mountains]] through the Vales of Anduin to join the river amid these marshes.

== The Disaster of the Gladden Fields ==
After the [[Last Alliance of Elves and Men]] overthrew [[Sauron]] at the end of the Second Age, Isildur, who had cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand and kept it for his own, journeyed north toward his home in the kingdom of Arnor. As his company passed the Gladden Fields, they were ambushed by a host of [[Orc]]s. Isildur's guard was overwhelmed and his sons slain. Isildur himself put on the Ring to escape by invisibility, but the Ring betrayed him: it slipped from his finger as he swam the Anduin, and Orc-arrows found and killed him. The Ring sank into the river-bed and was lost for nearly two and a half thousand years.

== The finding of the Ring ==
Long after, it was in the waters near the Gladden Fields that the hobbit [[Déagol]], fishing with his kinsman Sméagol, found the Ring on the river-bottom. Sméagol murdered Déagol for it and became the creature Gollum, beginning the next chapter of the Ring's history.

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Ford of Bruinen

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The '''Ford of Bruinen''', also called the '''Ford of Rivendell''', was the crossing of the river Bruinen (the Loudwater) on the road that led to Rivendell, the hidden valley of Elrond in [[Eriador]]. It was protected by the power of Elrond and was the scene of the rout of the Ringwraiths in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.

== Location ==
The Bruinen flowed down out of the [[Misty Mountains]], and the Ford lay on the East Road as it approached the deep cleft of Imladris (Rivendell). It marked the last great obstacle before the safety of Elrond's house, and the high valley beyond it was guarded by hidden watchers.

== The flight to the Ford ==
The Ford is most famous as the climax of the journey of [[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]] from Bree to Rivendell. Wounded by a Morgul-blade at Weathertop and pursued by the nine Ringwraiths, Frodo was borne toward the Ford on the swift Elf-horse of Glorfindel. He reached the crossing barely ahead of the Riders.

When the Nazgûl pressed onto the Ford to seize him, the river rose against them in a great flood, its waters loosed by the command of Elrond, who held power over the Bruinen. The torrent, in which some perceived shapes of white horses and riders, swept the Ringwraiths away and destroyed their steeds, ending the pursuit. Frodo, at the very edge of his strength, collapsed and was carried into Rivendell, where Elrond healed his grievous wound.

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Finduilas

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{{Infobox character
| name = Finduilas
| title = Lady of Dol Amroth; wife of Denethor II
| house = House of Dol Amroth (by birth); House of the Stewards (by marriage)
| race = Dúnedain of Gondor
| status = Deceased
| region = Dol Amroth; Minas Tirith
| died = Third Age, in Minas Tirith
| fate = Died young of grief and the nearness of the Shadow
| quote = "She withered in the guarded city... her beauty and her grace withered."
}}

'''Finduilas''' of Dol Amroth was a noblewoman of [[Gondor]], the wife of Denethor II, the Ruling Steward, and the mother of Boromir and Faramir. She belonged to the princely line of Dol Amroth.

== Family ==
Finduilas was the daughter of Adrahil, Prince of Dol Amroth, and the sister of Imrahil, who later led the knights of Dol Amroth in the War of the Ring. The lords of Dol Amroth were of high Númenórean blood, with a strain of Elven descent, and held the fair coastal fief of Belfalas in the south-west of Gondor. She married Denethor, son of the Steward Ecthelion II, and bore him two sons: Boromir and Faramir.

== Death ==
Finduilas was, by her nature, drawn to the sea and the open lands of her home. She did not flourish in the great stone city of [[Minas Tirith]], shadowed by the nearness of [[Mordor]] across the river. It was said that she withered there, her beauty and grace fading under the gloom that lay upon the city, and she died young, while her sons were still children.

== Legacy ==
Her death was a grievous blow to Denethor, who loved her, and his grief was held to have hardened his heart and deepened the cold sternness that marked his later rule. The loss of their mother in childhood also shaped Boromir and Faramir. Faramir in particular was remembered for his gentleness, in which some saw the qualities of Finduilas.

''Note: In the tales of the Elder Days there was also a Finduilas of Nargothrond, an Elf-maiden daughter of Orodreth, a separate figure from the legendarium of the First Age.''

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Entwives

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The '''Entwives''' were the female counterparts of the Ents, the tree-herds of [[Middle-earth]]. In the deeps of time they became estranged from the Ents and were lost, and the search for them was one of the abiding sorrows of Treebeard and his kind.

== The Ents and the Entwives ==
The Ents were ancient tree-like beings, shepherds of the forests, who awoke in the early ages of the world. In their beginnings the Ents and the Entwives dwelt together. But the two came to differ in their loves: the Ents cared for the wild trees and forests, content to let things grow as they would, while the Entwives loved order, tilled gardens, orchards, and growing things they could tend and command. Because of this difference the Entwives crossed the [[Anduin]] and made their gardens in the lands to the east, while the Ents remained in their forests.

== The Sundering ==
For an age the Ents would cross the river to visit the Entwives, but in time the lands where the Entwives dwelt were laid waste, in the wars of the Second Age, and became the Brown Lands. When the Ents came again, the gardens were gone and the Entwives could not be found. They had vanished, and no Ent ever discovered where they had gone.

== Legacy ==
The loss of the Entwives meant that there were no longer any young Ents, the Entings, and the race of Ents slowly dwindled toward extinction. Treebeard, the eldest of the Ents, spoke wistfully of the Entwives to the hobbits Merry and Pippin during the War of the Ring, recalling an old song of the lovers and expressing the faint hope that, when both peoples had lost all else, they might one day find each other again. Whether any Entwives still lived was never known.

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Emyn Arnen

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'''Emyn Arnen''' was a range of hills in Ithilien, the fair land east of the [[Anduin]] in the realm of [[Gondor]]. It was the ancestral home of the line from which the Stewards of Gondor sprang, and after the War of the Ring it became the seat of the Princes of Ithilien.

== Geography ==
Emyn Arnen lay in southern Ithilien, a group of hills rising east of the Anduin not far from where the river bent past [[Minas Tirith]] and Osgiliath. Ithilien itself, "the Garden of Gondor", was a region of woods, streams, and herbs, fair even in the days when it lay under the shadow of [[Mordor]] across the mountains to the east.

== History and significance ==
The first Steward of Gondor of the House of Húrin, the line that came to hold the Stewardship in perpetuity, was descended from lords whose home lay at Emyn Arnen. The hills thus had an old connection to the ruling house that governed Gondor in the long absence of its kings.

After the War of the Ring and the return of King [[Aragorn]], Faramir, the last Ruling Steward and son of Denethor, was made Prince of Ithilien and Lord of Emyn Arnen. He and Éowyn of Rohan, whom he wedded, dwelt there, and Faramir governed Ithilien as the chief lord under the King, helping to restore and resettle the once-fair land that had long been a war-torn borderland with Mordor.

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Dwarf

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A '''Dwarf''' (plural '''Dwarves''') was a member of the short, stout, and enduring race of [[Middle-earth]] renowned as miners, smiths, and stoneworkers. Created by the Vala [[Aulë]], the Dwarves were among the chief free peoples of the world.

:''Main article: [[Dwarves]]''

== Overview ==
Dwarves were made not by [[Eru Ilúvatar]] but by Aulë the Smith, who fashioned the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves in his impatience for the coming of the Children of Ilúvatar. Eru rebuked him but took pity and granted the Dwarves true life. Short and broad, long-lived, and tough, Dwarves dwelt in halls delved beneath the mountains and were unmatched in craft of stone and metal.

== Character ==
A Dwarf was typically secretive, stubborn, and slow to forget either a wrong or a debt, with a deep love of gold and fine workmanship. Dwarves guarded their own language, Khuzdul, jealously, using outer names when dealing with other peoples. Though often at odds with the [[Elves]], individual Dwarves formed lasting friendships across that divide, most famously Gimli, son of [[Glóin]], whose bond with the Elf Legolas became renowned during the War of the Ring.

== Notable Dwarves ==
The most famous Dwarves belonged to [[Durin's Folk]], the Longbeards, including Thorin Oakenshield, [[Balin]], Glóin, and Gimli. Their kings ruled the great realms of Khazad-dûm (Moria) and [[Erebor]], the Lonely Mountain.

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Durin's Folk

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'''Durin's Folk''', also called the '''Longbeards''', were the most renowned of the seven kindreds of the [[Dwarves]], descended from Durin the Deathless, eldest of the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves. Their long history included the founding of Khazad-dûm and the kingdom under [[Erebor]], and their kings played a great part in the affairs of [[Middle-earth]].

== Durin the Deathless ==
Durin was the eldest of the Seven Fathers made by the Vala [[Aulë]], and he awoke alone in the Elder Days. He founded the great realm of Khazad-dûm (Moria) beneath the [[Misty Mountains]], the grandest and longest-lasting of all Dwarf-kingdoms. So revered was he that his folk held that he was reborn again and again through the ages in his descendants, and several later kings bore the name Durin.

== Khazad-dûm ==
For long ages Durin's Folk dwelt in Moria, growing rich and skilled, especially in the mining of mithril, the precious silver metal found nowhere else in such measure. The realm fell when the Dwarves delved too deep and roused a [[Balrog]], Durin's Bane, which slew King Durin VI and drove the Dwarves out. Thereafter Moria stood empty and dreaded.

== Wanderings and Erebor ==
Exiled from Moria, Durin's Folk wandered, founding new realms in the Grey Mountains and later under the Lonely Mountain, [[Erebor]]. Erebor too was lost, for a time, to the dragon [[Smaug]], until Thorin Oakenshield, an heir of the line of Durin, reclaimed it in the quest told in ''[[The Hobbit]]''. Notable members of the kindred included [[Balin]], [[Glóin]], and Glóin's son Gimli, who joined the Fellowship of the Ring.

== Wars of the Third Age ==
Durin's Folk fought the long War of the Dwarves and Orcs, culminating in the great Battle of Azanulbizar before the East-gate of Moria. They also held firm in the North during the War of the Ring, defending Erebor and Dale against Sauron's allies.

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Déagol

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{{Infobox character
| name = Déagol
| race = Hobbit (Stoor-kind)
| status = Slain
| region = Gladden Fields, near the Anduin
| died = Third Age, by the Gladden Fields
| fate = Murdered by his kinsman Sméagol for the One Ring
| quote = "Give us that, Déagol, my love."
}}

'''Déagol''' was a hobbit of the Stoor-kind who found the One Ring in the [[Anduin]] near the [[Gladden Fields]], and was at once murdered for it by his kinsman and friend Sméagol, who became Gollum. His death was the first deed worked by the recovered Ring, and the beginning of the long tale that led to the War of the Ring.

== The finding of the Ring ==
Déagol lived among a family of Stoors, a riverside branch of the early [[Hobbits]], who dwelt by the banks of the Great River near the Gladden Fields. One day he went fishing with his friend and kinsman Sméagol. A great fish dragged Déagol into the water, and as he groped along the river-bottom he found a ring of gold. It was the One Ring, lost there long before when [[Isildur]] was slain in the [[Gladden Fields]].

== His murder ==
When Déagol came ashore with his prize, Sméagol was at once seized by desire for the beautiful golden ring and demanded it as a birthday-present. When Déagol refused, Sméagol throttled him and took the Ring, hiding the body. This first murder, worked by the Ring's malice within moments of its recovery, set Sméagol on the road to becoming the wretched creature Gollum, who bore the Ring in the dark beneath the [[Misty Mountains]] for nearly five hundred years.

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Brandy Hall

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'''Brandy Hall''' was the great ancestral home of the Brandybuck family, the chief [[Hobbits|hobbit]]-dwelling of Buckland in the eastern part of the [[Shire]]. It was a vast and rambling smial (hobbit-hole) and the seat of the Master of Buckland, the head of the Brandybuck clan.

== Description ==
Brandy Hall was delved into the side of Buck Hill, near the eastern bank of the Brandywine River. Unlike a simple hobbit-hole, it was an enormous warren of interconnecting tunnels, passages, and chambers, with many doors and windows, housing hundreds of Brandybucks and their kin and servants at once. It was one of the three largest hobbit dwellings in the Shire, comparable to the great smials of Tuckborough and the later Bag End.

== The Brandybucks of Buckland ==
The Brandybucks were a numerous, lively, and somewhat unconventional hobbit family who had settled Buckland, the strip of land east of the Brandywine between the river and the Old Forest. Considered a little odd by other hobbits for living so near the wild and for their familiarity with boats and water, the family was led by the Master of Buckland, who dwelt in Brandy Hall.

Meriadoc Brandybuck (Merry), one of the four hobbits who set out from the Shire in the War of the Ring and a companion of [[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]], was the son of the Master of Buckland and grew up at Brandy Hall. Frodo himself, orphaned young, had also been raised there among the Brandybucks before going to live at Bag End with Bilbo.

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Blue Wizards

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The '''Blue Wizards''' were two members of the order of the Istari (the [[Wizards]]) who came into [[Middle-earth]] in the Third Age. Clad in sea-blue, they journeyed into the far East and South and passed out of the knowledge of the West, so that little was recorded of their deeds.

== The order of Wizards ==
The Istari were Maiar, spirits of the order of the [[Ainur]], sent over the [[Sunset Sea|Sea]] in the guise of old men to oppose [[Sauron]] and to stir the peoples of Middle-earth to resistance. Five came in all: Saruman the White, [[Gandalf]] the Grey, [[Radagast]] the Brown, and the two Blue Wizards, called the Ithryn Luin.

== Names and journey ==
The names of the two Blue Wizards were given in some of Tolkien's writings as Alatar and Pallando. They were associated with the Vala Oromë. Unlike the other three Istari, who remained in the western lands, the Blue Wizards travelled into the East and South of Middle-earth, into the regions that bordered the realms under Sauron's sway, and did not return.

== Uncertain fate ==
Because they passed beyond the bounds of the recorded histories of the West, the fate of the Blue Wizards was never certainly known. In one account, Tolkien suggested they failed in their mission and may have founded magic cults or fallen to corruption. In a later note, however, he proposed a more hopeful reading: that they went into the East specifically to weaken Sauron's power in those regions, stirring resistance among the peoples there and so hindering the full strength that the East and South might otherwise have brought against the West in the War of the Ring. Their tale remained one of the unresolved mysteries of the legendarium.

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Beren and Lúthien

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'''Beren and Lúthien''' were the heroes of one of the central and most beloved tales of the First Age, a story of love between a mortal Man and an immortal Elf-maiden, and of their quest to recover a Silmaril from the iron crown of [[Morgoth]]. Their tale lies at the heart of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s legendarium and prefigures the later union of [[Aragorn]] and Arwen.

== The lovers ==
'''Beren''' was a mortal Man of the House of Bëor, son of Barahir, an outlaw who had long warred against the servants of Morgoth in the ruined lands of the North. '''Lúthien''' (called Tinúviel, "Nightingale") was the daughter of King Thingol and Queen Melian of [[Doriath]], the fairest of all the Children of [[Eru Ilúvatar]], for her mother was of the [[Ainur]]. When Beren came wandering into Doriath and beheld Lúthien dancing in the woods, the two fell in love.

== The quest for the Silmaril ==
King Thingol, unwilling to give his daughter to a mortal, set Beren an impossible bride-price: a Silmaril from the crown of Morgoth himself. Beren took up the quest and was joined by Lúthien, who would not be parted from him. Together, aided by the great hound Huan, they passed many perils, overthrew [[Sauron]] in his tower, and came at last to [[Angband]]. There Lúthien cast Morgoth into enchanted sleep with her song, and Beren cut a Silmaril from the iron crown.

== The end of the tale ==
In their flight the wolf Carcharoth bit off Beren's hand, which held the Silmaril, and the quest seemed to end in ruin. Beren was slain in the hunting of the wolf and the recovery of the jewel. Lúthien, in her grief, followed him in death and sang before Mandos in the Halls of the Dead. Moved by her song, the Valar granted that Beren return to life, on the condition that Lúthien become mortal and die in time as Men do. Thus the two were reunited and lived out a mortal span together.

== Legacy ==
Beren and Lúthien were the ancestors of the line that joined Elf and Man, leading down through Eärendil to the kings of [[Númenor]] and to Aragorn. Their tale was held among the greatest of the Elder Days, and Tolkien himself had the names Beren and Lúthien inscribed on his and his wife Edith's gravestone.

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Battle of Five Armies

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The '''Battle of Five Armies''' was a great battle fought at the foot of [[Erebor]], the Lonely Mountain, at the close of the quest told in ''[[The Hobbit]]''. It pitted [[Dwarves]], [[Elves]], and Men against a host of [[Orc]]s and wolves (Wargs), and ended the contest over the dragon-hoard of Smaug.

== Background ==
After the dragon [[Smaug]] was slain by Bard of Lake-town, his vast treasure-hoard lay unguarded within Erebor, held by Thorin Oakenshield and his company of Dwarves. Both the Men of Lake-town, whose home Smaug had destroyed, and the Elves of the Woodland Realm came to the mountain to claim a share of the wealth. Thorin, gripped by the gold-lust that ran in his line, refused them, and the three peoples stood on the brink of war over the hoard, with the mountain besieged.

== The five armies ==
Before blood was shed among them, a great host of Orcs and Wargs swept down from the [[Misty Mountains]], seeking vengeance and the treasure for themselves. At this the Dwarves, Elves, and Men united against the common enemy. The five armies of the battle's name were thus the Orcs and the Wargs on one side, and the Dwarves, Elves, and Men on the other. The Dwarves were further reinforced by Dáin Ironfoot, who came with an army from the Iron Hills.

== Course and outcome ==
The battle was hard-fought and the free peoples were nearly overcome, until the timely arrival of the Eagles, and of Beorn the skin-changer, turned the tide. The Orc host was destroyed. The victory came at a heavy cost: Thorin Oakenshield was mortally wounded, and his kinsmen Fíli and Kíli fell defending him. Before he died, Thorin was reconciled with Bilbo Baggins.

After the battle, the treasure was justly divided, Dáin Ironfoot became King under the Mountain, and the realms of Dale and Erebor were restored.

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Balin

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{{Infobox character
| name = Balin
| title = Lord of Moria; son of Fundin
| house = Durin's Folk
| race = Dwarf
| status = Slain
| region = Erebor; the Blue Mountains; Moria
| died = Third Age, in Moria
| fate = Slain by an Orc while attempting to recolonise Moria
| quote = "Here lies Balin son of Fundin, Lord of Moria."
}}

'''Balin''' was a [[Dwarves|Dwarf]] of [[Durin's Folk]], a companion of Thorin Oakenshield and one of the most genial members of the company in the quest of ''[[The Hobbit]]''. In later years he attempted to refound the Dwarf-realm of Moria, an enterprise that ended in his death.

== The quest of Erebor ==
Balin, son of Fundin, was one of the thirteen Dwarves who set out with Thorin Oakenshield and the hobbit Bilbo Baggins to reclaim the Lonely Mountain, [[Erebor]], from the dragon [[Smaug]]. The eldest of the company save Thorin himself, Balin was wise, kindly, and observant, and he became Bilbo's particular friend, often acting as the company's lookout. He fought in the [[Battle of Five Armies]] and afterwards prospered in the restored kingdom under the mountain.

== The colony in Moria ==
Long after, drawn by the hope of recovering the ancient wealth and glory of Khazad-dûm, Balin led an expedition of Dwarves into Moria to reclaim it. For a time the venture seemed to succeed: Balin took up rule as Lord of Moria and even recovered Durin's Axe and a mithril-coat. But the colony was beset by the [[Orc]]s who infested the deeps.

Balin was slain by an Orc archer while he gazed into the Mirrormere outside the East-gate, and his colony was soon overwhelmed and destroyed. His fate was unknown to the outside world until the Fellowship of the Ring passed through Moria during the War of the Ring and found his tomb, inscribed "Balin son of Fundin, Lord of Moria", along with the record of the colony's last days in the Book of Mazarbul.

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Arda

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'''Arda''' was the name given to the World in [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s legendarium, the realm made by the [[Ainur]] at the bidding of [[Eru Ilúvatar]] and the stage upon which all the histories of the [[Elves]], Men, [[Dwarves]], and other peoples unfolded. [[Middle-earth]] was but one part of it.

== Making ==
Arda came into being from the Music of the Ainur and the vision Eru showed them, and was given true existence when Eru uttered the word Eä, "Let it Be". Many of the Ainur then entered into Arda to shape and govern it; the greatest of these were the [[Valar]]. They laboured long to order the world, raising mountains and seas and kindling lights, though their works were ever marred and contested by [[Morgoth]], whose evil ran so deep that the whole of Arda was said to be tainted by it (the "Marring of Arda").

== Shape ==
In its early ages Arda was conceived as a flat world, lit first by lamps and then by the Two Trees of [[Valinor]], and later by the Sun and Moon. It contained the continent of Aman in the West, where Valinor lay; [[Middle-earth]] in the centre; and other lands east and south. At the [[Downfall of Númenor]], Eru changed the very shape of the world, making it round and removing Aman from its circles, so that mortal ships could no longer sail to the Undying Lands.

== Significance ==
Arda was the whole sphere of the world's history. Within it the Valar dwelt, the Children of Ilúvatar awoke, and the long struggle against the Shadow, from Morgoth to [[Sauron]], was waged across the ages. It was destined to endure until the end foretold in prophecy, the Last Battle and the remaking of the world.

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Angband

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'''Angband''', "the Iron Prison" or "Hells of Iron", was the great northern fortress of [[Morgoth]] in the First Age, the seat of his power throughout the Wars of [[Beleriand]]. From its deep dungeons and over its towering gates came the hosts of [[Orc]]s, [[Balrog]]s, and dragons that warred against the [[Elves]] and the Edain.

== Description ==
Angband lay in the far north of Beleriand, delved beneath the triple peaks of Thangorodrim, mountains of slag and ash heaped up by Morgoth above his stronghold. Its gates opened upon the plain, and behind them lay vast dungeons, armouries, and breeding-pits reaching far down into the earth. The fumes of Thangorodrim darkened the northern sky.

== History ==
Angband was first built in the Elder Days as an outpost guarding the approaches to Morgoth's deeper fortress of Utumno, set in the keeping of [[Sauron]], his chief lieutenant. When the [[Valar]] destroyed Utumno in the war for the sake of the newly awoken Elves, Angband endured, its lowest pits unsearched.

When Morgoth returned to [[Middle-earth]] after destroying the Two Trees and stealing the Silmarils, he rebuilt and enlarged Angband as his chief seat, raising Thangorodrim above it. There he set the Silmarils in his iron crown. From Angband he waged the long Wars of Beleriand against the [[Noldor]] and their allies, sending forth his armies in battle after battle.

== Downfall ==
Angband stood until the end of the First Age, when the host of the Valar came out of the West in the War of Wrath. In that cataclysm Thangorodrim was thrown down and Angband was broken and unroofed, Morgoth dragged from its deepest pit and cast out of the world. The ruin of the fortress was so great that much of the surrounding land was shattered and drowned along with the rest of Beleriand.

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Ainur

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The '''Ainur''' (singular '''Ainu'''), "the Holy Ones", were the first beings created by [[Eru Ilúvatar]], spirits made from his thought before the making of the world. The greatest of them entered into [[Arda]] to shape and govern it, becoming the [[Valar]] and the Maiar.

== Creation ==
The Ainur were the offspring of Eru's thought, each kindled from a part of his mind. To them Eru taught music, and at last propounded a great theme, from which arose the Music of the Ainur, the song that contained the design of the world. When [[Morgoth]] (then Melkor) sought to weave his own discordant music, Eru thrice took up the conflict into ever greater harmonies. After the Music, Eru showed the Ainur a vision of the world it had made, and many of them desired to enter into it.

== The Valar and the Maiar ==
Those Ainur who descended into Arda to govern it were divided in degree. The greatest were the [[Valar]], the Powers of the world, such as [[Manwë]], [[Aulë]], Varda, and Yavanna, who took up the great domains of the earth, sea, and sky. Of lesser might were the Maiar, spirits who served the Valar in many roles. Among the Maiar were [[Sauron]] (before his fall), the [[Balrog]]s, the [[Wizards]], and Melian, queen of [[Doriath]].

== Nature ==
The Ainur were spirits and had no fixed bodily form, though those within Arda often took shapes like to the Children of Ilúvatar. They were powerful and long-enduring, bound to the world until its end if they entered it. Their proper purpose was to carry out the will of Eru and to prepare the world for the coming of the Elves and Men, the Children of Ilúvatar, whose making Eru had reserved to himself alone.

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Aglarond

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'''Aglarond''', "the Glittering Caves", was a vast and beautiful network of caverns behind Helm's Deep in the White Mountains of Rohan. Long known to the [[Rohirrim]] only as a refuge, it became famous after the War of the Ring as the site of a new [[Dwarves|Dwarf]]-colony founded by Gimli.

== Description ==
Aglarond lay within the mountains behind the fortress of the Hornburg, at the head of the Deeping-coomb. Its caverns were of extraordinary beauty: halls and galleries of stone shaped by water over ages, gleaming with veins of mineral, crystal, and many colours that caught and threw back the light of torches. Gimli the Dwarf, who beheld them during the Battle of the Hornburg, described them in rapturous terms as rivalling the fairest works of his people.

== History ==
The caves had served the people of Rohan as a place of refuge in times of war. During the Battle of the Hornburg at Helm's Deep, the defenders sheltered there against the host of Saruman.

After the War of the Ring, Gimli, drawn by the marvel of the place, led a company of [[Dwarves]] from [[Erebor]] south to settle there. They founded a colony in the Glittering Caves, and Gimli became the Lord of Aglarond. The Dwarves of this colony worked the stone with care and made the caverns a place of craft and wonder, and they wrought, among other things, new gates of mithril and steel for the city of [[Minas Tirith]] to replace those broken in the war.

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Three Hunters

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The '''Three Hunters''' was the name taken by [[Aragorn]], Legolas, and Gimli during the War of the Ring, when the three companions of the broken Fellowship pursued a band of [[Orc]]s across the plains of Rohan to rescue their captured friends.

== Background ==
At the falls of Rauros the Fellowship of the Ring was scattered. [[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]] and Samwise set off alone toward [[Mordor]]; Boromir was slain defending the hobbits Meriadoc and Peregrin, who were then seized by Orcs of Saruman and of [[Mordor]]. Aragorn, Legolas the Elf, and Gimli the Dwarf, finding Boromir dying and the hobbits taken, resolved to follow the captives rather than pursue the Ring-bearer.

== The pursuit ==
Naming themselves the Three Hunters, the trio ran for days across the open grasslands of Rohan, covering great distances on foot in dogged pursuit of the Orc-band. Their chase brought them into the realm of the [[Rohirrim]], where they met Éomer and the Riders of the Mark, who had themselves destroyed the Orcs in a night battle near the eaves of Fangorn Forest. The hobbits, unknown to all, had escaped into the forest during that fight.

== Reunion ==
At the edge of Fangorn the Three Hunters met [[Gandalf]] returned as the White Rider, whom they had believed lost in Moria. Together they rode to Edoras and roused King Théoden, and the three companions fought through the remaining battles of the war, at Helm's Deep and in the campaigns of the South. The fellowship of Legolas and Gimli, an Elf and a Dwarf, that began in these days became one of the famous friendships of the age, healing an ancient enmity between their peoples.

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Smaug

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{{Infobox character
| name = Smaug
| title = the Golden; the Magnificent; Smaug the Terrible
| race = Dragon
| status = Slain
| region = Erebor (the Lonely Mountain)
| died = Third Age, over Lake-town
| fate = Slain by Bard the Bowman of Dale
| quote = "I am fire. I am death."
}}

'''Smaug''' was a great fire-drake of the North, one of the last and mightiest dragons of [[Middle-earth]], whose conquest of [[Erebor]] and slaying are told in ''[[The Hobbit]]''. He was a creature of vast size, cunning, and greed, who seized the Dwarf-kingdom under the Lonely Mountain and its treasure-hoard.

== Description ==
Smaug was a winged, fire-breathing dragon of enormous bulk, with red-gold scales and a hide so thick that no weapon of the Dwarves or Men could pierce it. Long lying upon the gold of Erebor had embedded gems and golden plates into his underside, seeming to armour even his soft belly, though one bare patch remained near his left breast. He was wily, vain, and given to flattering speech, and he was greedy beyond measure, knowing every piece of his hoard.

== The Sack of Erebor ==
In the time of King Thrór, Smaug descended without warning upon the Lonely Mountain, drawn by the great wealth of the [[Dwarves]]. He destroyed the town of Dale, slew or drove off the Dwarves, and took the mountain and its hoard for his own, upon which he lay for nearly two hundred years, a terror to all the North.

== Death ==
Smaug was roused at last by the quest of Thorin Oakenshield and the burglar Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo, entering the mountain unseen, spoke with the dragon and spied the bare patch in his jewelled armour. This knowledge was carried by a thrush to Bard, a grim archer of Lake-town. When Smaug flew out in his wrath to burn Lake-town, Bard loosed the Black Arrow into the hollow of his left breast, and the great dragon fell dead into the waters of the Long Lake. The fall of Smaug left his vast hoard unguarded, leading to the [[Battle of Five Armies]].

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Radagast

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{{Infobox character
| name = Radagast
| title = Radagast the Brown; one of the Istari
| race = Maia (Wizard)
| status = Remained in Middle-earth
| region = Rhosgobel, near Mirkwood
| fate = Turned aside to the care of beasts and birds; did not return into the West with the others
| quote = "Radagast the Brown! ... a master of shapes and changes of hue; and he has much lore of herbs and beasts, and birds are especially his friends."
}}

'''Radagast''', called '''Radagast the Brown''', was one of the [[Wizards]] (the Istari), the order of Maiar sent into [[Middle-earth]] in the Third Age to aid the free peoples against [[Sauron]]. He was the friend of beasts and birds and a master of their tongues, but he wandered from the chief purpose of his mission.

== Origins ==
Like the other Wizards, Radagast was a Maia, a lesser spirit of the order of the [[Ainur]], sent over the [[Sunset Sea|Sea]] in the guise of an aged man to counsel and stir the peoples of Middle-earth against the rising Shadow. He was, in some accounts, sent at the urging of the Vala Yavanna, the lover of growing things, which accorded with his nature.

== Character ==
Radagast dwelt at Rhosgobel near the edge of Mirkwood, on the western side. He grew so enamoured of the wild creatures, the beasts and the birds, that he came to care more for them than for the affairs of Elves and Men. He had great skill with herbs, with shapes and colours, and with the speech of animals. The eagles and many birds were his friends and served as his messengers.

== Role in the War of the Ring ==
Radagast unwittingly played a part in the events leading to the War of the Ring. Deceived by Saruman, he carried a message summoning [[Gandalf]] to Isengard, which led to Gandalf's imprisonment there. Yet Radagast also, at Gandalf's request, sent the birds and beasts to gather news, and it was an eagle summoned through this errand that bore Gandalf to safety from the pinnacle of Orthanc. He took no further direct part in the war and, having strayed from his charge, did not pass back into the West with the other Istari.

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Orc

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'''Orcs''' (also called '''goblins''') were a cruel and warlike race that formed the bulk of the armies of [[Morgoth]] and later [[Sauron]] throughout the history of [[Middle-earth]]. Bred for malice and destruction, they were the most numerous of the servants of the Dark Lords and the constant foes of the free peoples.

== Origins ==
The origin of the Orcs was a matter of grief and uncertainty even among the Wise. The most common belief held that Morgoth had bred them in the Elder Days from [[Elves]] whom he had captured, tormented, and corrupted, twisting the Firstborn into a debased and hateful mockery. Whatever their making, the Orcs could not create, only ruin and counterfeit, for that was the nature of Morgoth's works.

== Nature ==
Orcs were generally short, broad, and hideous, with sallow or dark skin, fanged mouths, and crooked limbs. They shunned the sun, which weakened and dazzled them, and were strongest by night. They were cruel, cowardly when not in great numbers, quarrelsome, and given to torment and slaughter, yet they could be skilled in mining, tunnelling, and the making of crude but deadly weapons. They hated all things of beauty and all the free peoples, and even hated one another.

== In the wars of Middle-earth ==
Orcs filled the hosts of [[Angband]] in the First Age and the armies of Sauron in the Second and Third Ages. They infested the [[Misty Mountains]], the dark places of Moria, and the land of [[Mordor]]. The wizard Saruman bred a stronger kind, the Uruk-hai, able to endure daylight, which fought in the War of the Ring. With the fall of Sauron, the Orcs, leaderless and scattered, were broken and hunted down, though they were never entirely destroyed.

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Narsil

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'''Narsil''' was the sword of Elendil, one of the great heirlooms of the [[Dúnedain]], renowned as the blade that cut the One Ring from the hand of [[Sauron]]. Broken in that deed, it was preserved through the long ages and at last reforged as Andúril, the Flame of the West, the sword of King [[Aragorn]].

== Origins ==
Narsil was forged in the Elder Days by the Dwarf-smith Telchar of Nogrod, a maker of great renown. It came into the keeping of Elendil, lord of the Dúnedain of the realms in exile, and it shone with the light of the sun and the moon.

== The breaking ==
At the end of the Second Age, in the [[Last Alliance of Elves and Men]], Elendil fell in battle with Sauron upon the slopes of Mount Doom, and Narsil was broken beneath him. His son [[Isildur]] took up the broken hilt-shard, and with the stub of the blade still set in it he cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand, casting down the Dark Lord's bodily form.

== The shards preserved ==
The shards of Narsil were carried away as an heirloom of Isildur's line and kept by his descendants through all the ages of the North-kingdom and after its fall, passing at last to the [[Rangers of the North]]. For nearly three thousand years the sword that was broken was not remade, but its preservation was bound up with the hope of the return of the king.

== Andúril ==
At the time of the War of the Ring, the Elves of Rivendell reforged the shards of Narsil for Aragorn, the heir of Isildur. The new sword was named Andúril, "Flame of the West", and upon its blade were set devices of the sun, the moon, and seven stars. Aragorn bore it through the war and carried it as a token of his right when he claimed the throne of the Reunited Kingdom.

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Manwë

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{{Infobox character
| name = Manwë
| title = Lord of the Valar; King of Arda; the Elder King
| race = Vala (Ainu)
| status = Eternal
| region = Valinor (Taniquetil)
| fate = Highest of the Valar, vice-regent of Eru in Arda
| quote = "Manwë and Melkor were brethren in the thought of Ilúvatar."
}}

'''Manwë''' was the chief of the [[Valar]], the King of [[Arda]], and the highest authority in the world under [[Eru Ilúvatar]]. Closest to the mind of Eru of all the [[Ainur]], he ruled the realm of the Valar and was the great adversary of [[Morgoth]] (Melkor), who had been his brother in the thought of Ilúvatar.

== Domain ==
Manwë's lordship was over the airs and winds of the world, the clouds and the regions of the sky. The eagles were his servants, bringing him tidings from all the lands of Arda. He dwelt with his spouse Varda, the Lady of the Stars (called Elbereth by the [[Elves]]), upon the heights of Taniquetil, the highest mountain in [[Valinor]], from whose summit he could see farther than any other being.

== Rule ==
As King of Arda, Manwë held authority over the other Valar and governed the world on behalf of Eru. He was noble, untainted by evil, and slow to perceive deceit, for his own heart held no malice. This purity at times left him unprepared for the cunning of Morgoth, whom he was reluctant to believe wholly corrupt.

== Role in history ==
Manwë presided over the great councils of the Valar. It was he who summoned the Elves to Valinor, and who, after the rebellion of [[Fëanor]] and the [[Noldor]], pronounced the conditions of their long sojourn in [[Middle-earth]]. At the end of the First Age it was the will of the Valar, under Manwë, that sent the host of the West against Morgoth in the War of Wrath. At the [[Downfall of Númenor]], when the Valar laid down their guardianship, Manwë called upon Eru, who alone broke and remade the world.

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Fëanor

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{{Infobox character
| name = Fëanor
| title = High King of the Noldor; maker of the Silmarils
| house = House of Finwë
| race = Elf (Noldor)
| status = Slain
| region = Valinor; Beleriand
| born = Years of the Trees, in Valinor
| died = First Age, in Beleriand
| fate = Slain by Balrogs soon after returning to Middle-earth
| quote = "Fairest of all the Eldar in word and deed, and his works were many."
}}

'''Fëanor''' was the greatest of the [[Noldor]] [[Elves]], the maker of the Silmarils and the most gifted of all the Children of [[Eru Ilúvatar]] in skill and craft. His pride, his oath, and his deeds set in motion the central tragedy of the First Age and the long exile of the Noldor in [[Beleriand]].

== Early life ==
Fëanor was the eldest son of Finwë, King of the Noldor in [[Valinor]], and his name meant "Spirit of Fire". He was unmatched in skill of hand and mind, surpassing all others of his people. Among his works were the palantíri, the Seeing-stones, and the Tengwar script. His greatest achievement was the crafting of the three Silmarils, jewels that held the captured light of the Two Trees of Valinor.

== The Silmarils and the Oath ==
When [[Morgoth]] destroyed the Two Trees and stole the Silmarils, slaying Finwë in the deed, Fëanor's grief turned to wrath. He named the enemy "Morgoth", the Black Foe, and swore a terrible and unbreakable oath, with his seven sons, to recover the Silmarils and to pursue with hatred any who withheld them, whether Vala, Elf, or Man. This Oath of Fëanor brought ruin and kinslaying upon his people for ages to come.

== Rebellion and death ==
Fëanor led the greater part of the Noldor out of Valinor in rebellion, against the counsel of the Valar, to make war on Morgoth in [[Middle-earth]]. To win ships he led the first Kinslaying against the Teleri at Alqualondë. Soon after reaching Middle-earth, in his reckless fury, Fëanor pressed too far ahead of his host and was surrounded and slain by [[Balrog]]s. As he died he cursed the name of Morgoth thrice, foreseeing that no Elf would ever defeat him.

== Legacy ==
Fëanor's Oath bound his seven sons to a doom of bloodshed that lasted the whole First Age, drawing them into kinslaying and the ruin of the Elven realms. The Silmarils were never recovered to the Noldor: one was lost in the sea, one in the deeps of the earth, and one set in the heavens as a star.

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Erebor

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'''Erebor''', known as '''the Lonely Mountain''', was a great mountain and Dwarf-kingdom in the north-east of [[Middle-earth]], east of Mirkwood. It was the seat of the Kings under the Mountain of [[Durin's Folk]] and held one of the richest treasure-hoards of the [[Dwarves]], famed throughout the North.

== Description ==
Erebor was a solitary peak rising alone from the surrounding lands, with the River Running flowing from its feet past the town of Dale and the Long Lake of Esgaroth. Beneath the mountain lay vast halls and treasuries delved by the Dwarves, including the great Front Gate and the secret side-door reached by a hidden path. The mountain's wealth drew both prosperity and peril.

== History ==
The kingdom under Erebor was founded by Thrór of Durin's Folk and grew rich and renowned, trading with the men of Dale. Its prosperity ended when the great dragon [[Smaug]] descended upon it, slaying or driving out the Dwarves, sacking Dale, and seizing the hoard, upon which he lay for nearly two centuries.

The mountain was reclaimed in the quest told in ''The Hobbit''. Thorin Oakenshield, heir of the Kings under the Mountain, led a company of Dwarves, with the hobbit Bilbo Baggins and the wizard [[Gandalf]], to recover their home. Smaug was slain by Bard of Dale, but the dragon's hoard then drew armies into the [[Battle of Five Armies]] beneath the mountain.

== The Restored Kingdom ==
After the battle, the Kingdom under the Mountain was restored under Dáin Ironfoot, and Erebor again became a strong and wealthy realm. During the War of the Ring it stood firm against Sauron's allies in the North; the Dwarves of Erebor and the men of Dale withstood a hard siege and, after Sauron's fall, shared in the victory.

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Cracks of Doom

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The '''Cracks of Doom''' were the fiery chasms within Mount Doom (Orodruin), the volcano in the heart of [[Mordor]]. It was the one place in all the world where the One Ring could be unmade, for it was in those very fires that [[Sauron]] had forged it in the Second Age.

== Description ==
The Cracks of Doom lay within the Sammath Naur, the Chambers of Fire, a passage bored into the side of Mount Doom. Within was a great fissure opening upon the molten fires beneath the mountain. The heat and fume of the place were terrible, and the mountain's eruptions waxed and waned with the will of Sauron.

== The Forging of the Ring ==
Long before the War of the Ring, Sauron had wrought the One Ring in the fires of Orodruin, pouring into it much of his own native power so as to rule the other Rings of Power. Because so much of himself was bound into it, the Ring could be destroyed only by the same fire that made it, and no other heat or craft could melt it.

== The Destruction of the Ring ==
The whole quest of the War of the Ring turned upon reaching the Cracks of Doom. [[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]] and Samwise crossed the desolation of Mordor and climbed the mountain to cast the Ring into the fire. At the very brink, Frodo was overcome by the Ring's power and claimed it for his own. But Gollum, who had followed them, seized the Ring, biting it from Frodo's finger, and in his triumph fell with it into the Cracks of Doom.

So the Ring was unmade. With its destruction Sauron's power was broken forever, his fortress of Barad-dûr collapsed, and the long Third Age drew to its end.

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Caras Galadhon

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'''Caras Galadhon''', "the City of the Trees", was the chief dwelling of the [[Elves]] of Lothlórien, the hidden city of [[Galadriel]] and Celeborn. Built high among the great mallorn trees of the Golden Wood, it was one of the fairest places remaining in [[Middle-earth]] in the Third Age.

== Description ==
Caras Galadhon stood upon a great green hill within Lothlórien, encircled by a moat and a wall. Its houses, called telain or flets, were built upon platforms set high in the boughs of the mallorn trees, whose silver bark and golden leaves did not fall until spring. Stairs and ladders wound up the trunks, and lights gleamed green, gold, and silver among the leaves. At its summit stood the talan of Galadriel and Celeborn, lords of the realm.

== Significance ==
It was at Caras Galadhon that the Fellowship of the Ring was received and sheltered after the loss of [[Gandalf]] in Moria. There they rested and were given counsel and gifts by Galadriel, including the Elven cloaks, the lembas waybread, and the rope and other tokens that aided them on the road ahead. To [[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]] Galadriel gave the phial of Eärendil, a light to guide him in dark places, which served him in the lair of Shelob.

Lothlórien and its city were preserved through the power of Galadriel and the Ring Nenya, which she bore. After the War of the Ring and the departure of Galadriel into the West, the Elves of Lothlórien dwindled and at last left, and the city was abandoned.

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Bridge of Khazad-dûm

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The '''Bridge of Khazad-dûm''' was a narrow stone span deep within Moria, the ancient Dwarf-realm beneath the [[Misty Mountains]]. It was the scene of one of the most famous moments of the War of the Ring: the fall of [[Gandalf]] in his battle with the [[Balrog]] known as Durin's Bane.

== Description ==
The bridge was a slender arch of stone, some fifty feet long, that leapt across a deep chasm before the eastern doors of Moria. It had been built by the [[Dwarves]] of [[Durin's Folk]] as a defence, narrow enough that enemies could cross only in single file, leaving them exposed to the defenders beyond. Beyond the bridge lay the First Hall and the Great Gates that opened toward the eastern slopes of the mountains.

== The Fall of Gandalf ==
As the Fellowship of the Ring fled through Moria, pursued by [[Orc]]s and by the Balrog roused from the deeps, they came to the Bridge of Khazad-dûm. There Gandalf turned to hold the narrow span against the demon of fire and shadow while the others escaped.

Standing upon the bridge, Gandalf defied the Balrog, declaring himself a servant of the Secret Fire and commanding it not to pass. He broke the bridge beneath the creature with a stroke of his staff. As the Balrog fell, its fiery whip caught Gandalf and dragged him down into the abyss after it. His last words to his companions were, "Fly, you fools!" The two fell together into the deep, where their long battle continued; Gandalf was slain but later returned as Gandalf the White.

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Beleriand

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'''Beleriand''' was the great land of north-western [[Middle-earth]] in the First Age, the setting of the wars of the [[Elves]] against [[Morgoth]] and of the central tales of the Elder Days. By the end of the Age it was broken and drowned beneath the sea, so that in the later ages only its easternmost fragments remained above the waves.

== Geography ==
Beleriand lay west of the Blue Mountains (Ered Luin) and was bounded on the north by the highlands and the fortress of [[Angband]], from which Morgoth waged his wars. Its lands were watered by the great river Sirion, which ran from north to south through its heart to the Sea. Within Beleriand stood the chief Elf-realms of the age: the hidden kingdom of [[Doriath]], the underground city of Nargothrond, and the secret mountain-city of [[Gondolin]].

== History ==
Beleriand was first the home of the Sindar, the Grey-elves, ruled by Thingol of Doriath. When the exiled [[Noldor]] returned from [[Valinor]] in pursuit of Morgoth and the stolen Silmarils, they established their kingdoms there and waged the long Wars of Beleriand against Angband. These wars saw great victories and terrible defeats, including the catastrophic Battle of Unnumbered Tears (Nirnaeth Arnoediad), after which the power of the Elves and their allies the Edain was broken.

== The Drowning ==
At the end of the First Age the Valar came out of the West in the War of Wrath to overthrow Morgoth. The conflict was so vast that the very land was shattered, and most of Beleriand sank beneath the Sea. Only the highlands east of the Blue Mountains and a few coastal remnants survived. In the later ages, the lands the survivors knew, such as Lindon, were the easternmost edges of what had once been the great realm of Beleriand.

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Battle of Dagorlad

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The '''Battle of Dagorlad''' was a great battle fought at the end of the Second Age between the [[Last Alliance of Elves and Men]] and the forces of [[Sauron]], upon the barren plain before the gates of [[Mordor]]. It was one of the largest battles ever fought in [[Middle-earth]] and a decisive victory that opened the way for the siege of Barad-dûr.

== Background ==
After the [[Downfall of Númenor]], Sauron returned to Mordor and again made war upon the free peoples. In answer, Gil-galad, High King of the [[Noldor]], and Elendil, lord of the [[Dúnedain]] of the realms in exile, formed the Last Alliance and marshalled a vast host of [[Elves]] and Men. Marching east, they came to the plain of Dagorlad, "the Battle Plain", that lay before the Black Gate of Mordor.

== The Battle ==
There the host of the Alliance met the full strength of Sauron. The battle was vast and grievous, and the Alliance was victorious, though at great cost. All living things, it was said, were divided in that day, and even some Elves and Men fought on the side of Sauron. Many fell, and the marshes that later spread over part of that plain, the Dead Marshes, were held to hold the faces of the dead who perished there.

== Aftermath ==
Having broken Sauron's army at Dagorlad, the host of the Alliance passed into Mordor and laid siege to the Dark Tower of Barad-dûr, a siege that lasted seven years. It ended only when Sauron came forth in person and was overthrown upon the slopes of Mount Doom, where Gil-galad and Elendil were slain and [[Isildur]] cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand.

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Tom Bombadil

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{{Infobox character
| name = Tom Bombadil
| title = Master of wood, water, and hill; Eldest; Iarwain Ben-adar
| race = Unknown
| status = Living (during the War of the Ring)
| region = The Old Forest; the Withywindle valley
| fate = Remained in his own land, untouched by the wider war
| quote = "Eldest, that's what I am. Mark my words, my friends: Tom was here before the river and the trees; Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn."
}}

'''Tom Bombadil''' was a mysterious and merry being who dwelt in the Old Forest near the [[Shire]], in the valley of the Withywindle. One of the most enigmatic figures in [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s legendarium, his true nature was never explained, and he stood apart from the great struggle for power that shaped the age.

== Nature ==
Tom called himself "Eldest", claiming to have been in the land before the river, the trees, and the first raindrop, even before [[Sauron]]. The Elves named him Iarwain Ben-adar, "Oldest and Fatherless". He was master of his own small country, a power within its borders that no evil could touch. He was jolly, spoke often in rhyme and song, wore a blue coat and yellow boots, and was wed to Goldberry, the River-daughter.

== The One Ring ==
The most striking sign of his strange nature was his immunity to the One Ring. When [[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]] gave him the Ring, Tom put it on and did not vanish, and when Frodo wore it, Tom could still see him plainly. The Ring had no power over him at all. Yet at the Council of Elrond the Wise judged that Tom could not be trusted to guard the Ring, for he cared so little for power and dominion that he might simply lose it or cast it aside, and his land alone could not stand against Sauron's full might.

== Role ==
Tom rescued the four hobbits twice on their journey out of the Shire: first from Old Man Willow, a malevolent tree of the Old Forest, and again from a barrow-wight on the Barrow-downs. He sheltered them in his house, gave them counsel, and armed them with blades from the barrow-hoard before sending them on their way. He took no further part in the War of the Ring, content to keep his own small realm.

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Houses of Healing

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The '''Houses of Healing''' were the chief place of healing in the city of [[Minas Tirith]], the capital of [[Gondor]]. Set within the sixth circle of the city, they were where the sick and the wounded were tended, and they became a place of great significance during and after the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in the War of the Ring.

== Description ==
The Houses of Healing were fair buildings set apart for the care of those gravely ill or hurt, staffed by healers and overseen by a Warden. Among its folk was the herb-master, keeper of the lore of healing plants, and the old wise-woman Ioreth, who remembered an ancient saying of Gondor: "The hands of the king are the hands of a healer."

== The War of the Ring ==
After the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, many of the wounded were brought to the Houses of Healing, among them three stricken by the deadly Black Breath of the Nazgûl: Faramir, son of the Steward Denethor; Éowyn of Rohan, who had slain the Witch-king; and the hobbit Meriadoc Brandybuck.

The healers could not rouse them from the mortal shadow that gripped them. It was [[Aragorn]], entering the city in secret, who came to the Houses and healed all three with the herb athelas (kingsfoil) and the virtue of his hands. By this deed the old saying was fulfilled, and the people of the city knew their true king had come, for "the hands of the king are the hands of a healer".

While she recovered in the Houses of Healing, Éowyn met and came to love Faramir, and there their long friendship and betrothal began.

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Hobbits

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The '''Hobbits''', also called the '''Halflings''', were a small and unassuming people of [[Middle-earth]], a branch of the race of Men though unlike them in stature and temper. Dwelling chiefly in the [[Shire]] and at Bree in [[Eriador]], they were little known to the great folk of the world, yet they came to play a decisive part in the War of the Ring.

== Description ==
Hobbits were small, generally between two and four feet tall, with curly hair and large, tough, leathery feet that needed no shoes. They were inclined to be stout and good-natured, loving peace, quiet, good tilled earth, and above all food, drink, and the comforts of home. Despite their unwarlike ways, they possessed an unexpected toughness and resilience that surprised those who underestimated them.

== Kinds and origins ==
The Hobbits reckoned three kindreds among themselves: the Harfoots, the Stoors, and the Fallohides. Their early history was little recorded; they wandered westward out of the vales of the upper [[Anduin]] and at length settled the Shire, which they tended and farmed in long peace under the distant protection of the [[Rangers of the North]].

== Resistance to the Ring ==
Hobbits proved remarkably resistant to the corrupting power of the One Ring, owing perhaps to their humility and lack of ambition for dominion. Bilbo Baggins bore the Ring for many years with relatively little harm, and it was the hobbit [[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]], with his servant Samwise, who carried it to the [[Cracks of Doom]]. Sméagol-Gollum, himself of hobbit-kind, endured the Ring's malice for centuries, twisted but not wholly destroyed.

== Role in the War of the Ring ==
Four hobbits, Frodo, Sam, Meriadoc, and Peregrin, went out from the Shire and became central to the overthrow of [[Sauron]]. Their deeds, all but unknown to the wider world, were honoured by the great after the war, and they returned to scour and heal their own land.

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Doriath

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'''Doriath''', "the Land of the Fence", was the great hidden Elf-kingdom of [[Beleriand]] in the First Age, ruled by King Thingol and Queen Melian. Protected by Melian's girdle of enchantment, it was the mightiest and longest-enduring of the realms of the Grey-elves, and the setting of much of the central tragedy of the Elder Days.

== The Realm ==
Doriath lay in the forests of central Beleriand, around the rivers Esgalduin and Aros. Its heart was the underground halls of Menegroth, the Thousand Caves, carved with great skill. The realm was guarded by the Girdle of Melian, an unseen wall of power woven by the Maia queen that turned aside all who came with ill intent, so that none could enter against the will of Thingol.

== History ==
Thingol, one of the Sindar [[Elves]], ruled Doriath with his queen Melian, who was of the [[Ainur]]. For long ages it stood inviolate amid the wars of Beleriand. It was to Doriath that [[Beren and Lúthien|Beren]] came seeking the hand of Lúthien, Thingol's daughter, and from this came the quest for the Silmaril.

The peace of Doriath was undone by that very jewel. When the Silmaril of [[Fëanor]] came at last to Doriath, it brought ruin: Thingol was slain over it, the [[Dwarves]] sacked Menegroth, and the sons of Fëanor, bound by their oath, fell upon the kingdom in the Second Kinslaying. By the end of the First Age Doriath was destroyed, its people scattered, and only a remnant survived to bear the Silmaril on to later hands.

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Círdan

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{{Infobox character
| name = Círdan
| title = The Shipwright; Lord of the Havens
| race = Elf (Teleri / Sindar)
| status = Departed over Sea
| region = The Grey Havens (Mithlond)
| fate = Last of the great Elf-lords to leave Middle-earth
| quote = "Behold! the Grey Company; for so the people of Círdan named them, and gladly they passed."
}}

'''Círdan''', called '''the Shipwright''', was one of the oldest and wisest of the [[Elves]], the lord of the Grey Havens and the master of all the Elven shipwrights of [[Middle-earth]]. He dwelt by the western shore from the Elder Days until the very end of the Third Age, the last of the great Elf-lords to depart over the [[Sunset Sea|Sea]].

== Origins ==
Círdan was of the Teleri kindred and became a lord of the Sindar, the Grey-elves of [[Beleriand]]. From the earliest days he was drawn to the Sea and to the craft of shipbuilding. Through all the wars of the First Age he held to the coasts and havens, and after the drowning of Beleriand he removed to the Gulf of Lhûn, where he established the Grey Havens (Mithlond) in [[Eriador]].

== The Grey Havens ==
From the Grey Havens, Círdan built and kept the ships that bore the weary Elves over the Sea into the West. He was foresighted and wise beyond most of his kind, and he aided the free peoples in their long struggle against [[Sauron]]. He fought in the [[Last Alliance of Elves and Men]] alongside Gil-galad.

== The Ring Narya ==
Círdan held Narya, the Ring of Fire, one of the Three Rings of the Elves. When the [[Wizards]] came over the Sea at the start of their mission against Sauron, Círdan perceived the greatness in [[Gandalf]] and gave Narya into his keeping, judging that he would have the most need of it. At the end of the War of the Ring, Círdan was at the Havens to send the Ring-bearers and the last of the Three Rings into the West.

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Caradhras

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'''Caradhras''', "the Redhorn", was one of the three great peaks of the [[Misty Mountains]] that towered above the Dwarf-realm of Khazad-dûm (Moria). Tall, cruel, and cold, it was called Barazinbar in the tongue of the [[Dwarves]] and was famed for its perilous weather.

== Description ==
Caradhras rose with its companions Celebdil (the Silvertine) and Fanuidhol (the Cloudyhead) above the deep places of Moria. Its slopes were treacherous, swept by sudden storms and deep snows, and the mountain had an ill name among travellers. Beneath it lay the Dwarrowdelf, and on its lower slopes flowed the Silverlode and other streams that fed into the [[Anduin]].

== The Redhorn Pass ==
The high pass over the shoulder of Caradhras, called the Redhorn Gate, was one of the few ways across the Misty Mountains in that region. During the War of the Ring, the Fellowship of the Ring attempted to cross by this pass to avoid the dark road through Moria. They were driven back by a fierce and unnatural snowstorm that buried the path and nearly destroyed them.

Whether the storm was the malice of the mountain itself, which some held to have a cruel will of its own, or the work of [[Sauron]] or other powers, was not certainly known. The failure of the attempt forced the Fellowship to take the road through Moria instead, leading to the fall of [[Gandalf]] upon the [[Bridge of Khazad-dûm]].

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Aulë

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{{Infobox character
| name = Aulë
| title = The Smith; Lord of Substances
| race = Vala (Ainu)
| status = Eternal
| region = Valinor
| fate = One of the Aratar, the chief Valar
| quote = "These things he made for love and not desire of lordship."
}}

'''Aulë''' was one of the [[Valar]], the great powers of [[Arda]], and the master of all crafts and substances. A smith and maker beyond compare, he shaped much of the physical form of the world and was the patron of all who worked in stone, metal, and craft. He was numbered among the Aratar, the chief of the Valar.

== Domain ==
Aulë's lordship was over the fabric of the earth: the rocks, gems, and metals, and the skills of smithcraft and making. He delighted in works of skill and in the act of creation itself, though without pride of possession. He was a friend and teacher to the [[Noldor]] [[Elves]], who learned much of their craft from him. His spouse was Yavanna, the giver of fruits, whose domain over growing things sometimes set her in gentle tension with his works.

== Creation of the Dwarves ==
Aulë is most famous as the maker of the [[Dwarves]]. Impatient for the coming of the Children of [[Eru Ilúvatar]] and desiring pupils to whom he could teach his crafts, he fashioned the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves in secret beneath the mountains. When Eru rebuked him for presuming to make life, which was Eru's alone to give, Aulë humbly offered to destroy his creations. Seeing his maker's true humility, and the Dwarves flinching from the blow, Eru took pity, accepted them as his own adopted children, and granted them real life, decreeing only that they should sleep until after the Elves awoke.

== Servants ==
Several of the Maiar served Aulë. Among them was Sauron in his beginning, before he was corrupted by [[Morgoth]]. The Wizard Saruman was also of Aulë's people, which accorded with his interest in devices and the works of hand.

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Angmar

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'''Angmar''' was an evil realm in the far north of [[Eriador]], founded and ruled by the Witch-king, chief of the Ringwraiths. From this kingdom came the long assault that at last destroyed the North-kingdom of the [[Dúnedain]] in the Third Age.

== The Realm ==
Angmar lay on both sides of the northern [[Misty Mountains]], a cold and grim land. Its chief stronghold was Carn Dûm. Its lord, known as the Witch-king of Angmar, was secretly the greatest of the Nazgûl, sent north by [[Sauron]] to ruin the heirs of [[Isildur]].

== War with the North-kingdom ==
By the time Angmar arose, the old kingdom of Arnor had divided into the three realms of Arthedain, Cardolan, and Rhudaur. The Witch-king waged relentless war upon them. Rhudaur fell under his influence, Cardolan was wasted, and at last, after long struggle, Arthedain too was overthrown and its capital Fornost taken. The last king of Arthedain, Arvedui, perished in the icy northern waters.

== Downfall ==
Though Angmar destroyed the North-kingdom, it did not long survive its triumph. A host came from [[Gondor]] under the captain Eärnur, joined by the [[Elves]] of Lindon and Rivendell, and met the forces of Angmar at the Battle of Fornost. The realm of Angmar was utterly broken, and the Witch-king fled. He reappeared long after in the South as lord of [[Minas Morgul]] and captain of Sauron's hosts.

It was foretold by Glorfindel that the Witch-king would not fall by the hand of man. The prophecy was fulfilled at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, where he was slain by the woman Éowyn of Rohan and the hobbit Meriadoc Brandybuck.

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Noldor

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The '''Noldor''' were the second of the three kindreds of the Eldar [[Elves]], the Deep Elves, renowned above all others for their skill in craft, lore, and knowledge. Greatest of their works were the Silmarils, the holy jewels wrought by [[Fëanor]]. Their history in [[Beleriand]] forms the central tragedy of the Elder Days.

== Origins ==
The Noldor were one of the kindreds who undertook the Great Journey from Cuiviénen into the West and dwelt in the Blessed Realm of [[Valinor]]. There, under the tutelage of the Vala [[Aulë]] the Smith, they became the most learned and skilled of all the Elves, makers of gems, builders, and lovers of knowledge. Their first king was Finwë.

== The Silmarils and the Exile ==
The greatest of the Noldor was Fëanor, who captured the light of the Two Trees in the three Silmarils. When [[Morgoth]] slew Finwë, stole the Silmarils, and destroyed the Trees, Fëanor swore a terrible oath to recover them and led a great part of the Noldor in rebellion out of Valinor and back into [[Middle-earth]]. This departure was marked by the Kinslaying at Alqualondë, where the Noldor slew the Teleri to seize their ships, and by the Doom of Mandos pronounced upon them.

== Wars in Beleriand ==
In Beleriand the exiled Noldor established kingdoms, including [[Gondolin]] and Nargothrond, and waged the long wars against Morgoth from his fortress of [[Angband]]. Despite great valour and many heroic deeds, the Oath of Fëanor and the Doom of the Noldor brought ruin upon them again and again. By the end of the First Age their realms were broken, and only at the coming of the Valar in the War of Wrath was Morgoth at last cast down.

== Later Ages ==
In the Second and Third Ages, surviving Noldor played a great part in the affairs of Middle-earth. Gil-galad was the last High King of the Noldor in the East, falling in the [[Last Alliance of Elves and Men]]. [[Galadriel]], one of the last of those who had seen Valinor, dwelt in Lothlórien until she too departed over the sea.

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