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In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional legendarium, Beleriand (IPA: [bɛˈlɛ.ri.and]) was a region in northwestern Middle-earth during the First Age.Events in Beleriand are described chiefly in his work The Silmarillion, which tells the story of the early ages of Middle-earth in a style similar to the epic hero tales of Nordic literature, with a pervasive sense of doom over the character's actions.
Gil-galad was an Elf of a royal house of Beleriand; beyond that, accounts of his birth vary.According to The Silmarillion, he was born into the house of Finwë as a son of Fingon sometime in the First Age, and as a child, he was sent away during the Siege of Angband for safekeeping with Cirdan the shipwright in the Falas.
The King of Doriath, King of the Sindar Elves, High-king [T 1] and Lord of Beleriand, he is a major character in the First Age of Middle-earth [1] and an essential part of the ancestral backgrounding of the romance between Aragorn and Arwen in The Lord of the Rings. Alone among the Elves, he married an angelic Maia, Melian.
[T 3] They are sent by the Valar to assist the people of Middle-earth to contest Sauron. [ T 3 ] The first three of these five wizards are known in the Mannish tongues of the Lord of the Rings series as Saruman "man of skill" ( Rohirric ), Gandalf "elf of the staff" (northern Men), and Radagast "tender of beasts" (possibly Westron ).
The Elves awoke at Cuiviénen, on the Sea of Helcar (right) in Middle-earth, and many of them (green titles for kindreds) migrated (arrows) westwards to Valinor in Aman, though some stopped in Beleriand (top), and others returned to Beleriand later (red arrows). Those who obeyed the summons to Aman were known as the Eldar; the rest, the Avari ...
[T 2] [1] Taking the form of an elf and thus subjecting herself to the limits of physical embodiment, [2] Melian spends many years in solitude with Elwe, who is thought lost to his people in Nan Elmoth until the couple re-emerge into Middle-earth society. [1] Sketch map of Beleriand in the First Age.
J. R. R. Tolkien built a process of decline and fall in Middle-earth into both The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings.. The pattern is expressed in several ways, including the splintering of the light provided by the Creator, Eru Iluvatar, into progressively smaller parts; the fragmentation of languages and peoples, especially the Elves, who are split into many groups; the successive falls ...
The first Elves to awaken were three pairs: Imin ("First") and his wife Iminyë, Tata ("Second") and Tatië, and Enel ("Third") and Enelyë. They walked through the forests, finding other pairs of Elves, who became their folk. They lived by the rivers, and invented poetry and music in Middle-earth. Journeying further, they came across tall and ...