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Noldor
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The Noldor are the second of the three Eldar hosts who departed from Cuiviénen - the Waters of Awakening - and took part in the Great March to Aman. They were led by Finwë, first High King of all Noldor, and after a long trip they finally reached the Blessed Realm. Their residence was Tirion on the hill of Túna which lay in the Calaciryan - The Pass of Light. Since all of the Noldor who returned to Middle-Earth had been followers of Fëanor in his Exile, they all were considered rebels against Manwë and the other Valar and therefore fell under the Doom of Mandos. Thus, they were forbidden to return to Valinor till they had repented and pleaded for forgiveness. Those who survived the War of Wrath at the end of the First Age were finally forgiven and allowed to return to the Blessed Realm. There were many though who did not wish to return, or were not granted forgiveness by the Valar yet because of their key roles in the rebellion. These Elves instead established new realms in Lindon and Eregion, and took Gil-galad, son of Orodreth, son of Angrod and direct descendant of King Finwë, as their High King. Gil-galad perished heroically during the Battle of the Last Alliance in Second Age 3441, when he faced Sauron in a duel. Even though they are now a dwindling people, the Noldor are still the most powerful and wise of the remaining Elves in Middle-Earth.
Sindar
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The Sindar are of Telerin origin. The Teleri were the third and largest host of the Eldar who decided to follow the invitation of the Valar and go to Valinor. During the Great March, groups of the Teleri, both small and large, abandoned the main host and therefore never reached Aman, and never set their eyes upon the sacred light of the Two Trees - Telperion and Laurelin. The last separation of the Teleri took place in Beleriand, when Elwë Singollo, who together with his brother Olwë led the Teleri on the Great March, got lost while wandering in Nan Elmoth - a great forest within which he met Melian the Maia and was enchanted by her song. Long did his kin search for Elwe, but found him not. At last his brother Olwë lost hope and decided to follow the Vanyar and the Noldor, who had recently departed from Beleriand and were on their way to Valinor. Those who wanted to continue the search for Elwë and were not willing to leave Middle-Earth without him stayed behind and kept looking for him in vain. When at last Elwë returned to them, they hailed him as their King. Taking Melian as his Queen, with whom he had grown to share a bond of love, he and his people established the realm of Doriath, and dwelt there as a distinct people. They called themselves Sindar.
Lindar
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Like the Sindar, the Lindar were of Telerin origin. In fact, the native name of the Teleri was, in their own tongue, Lindai. It was during the Great March that they were given the name Teleri by the Noldor. Teleri means 'those at the end of the line' or 'the hindmost', and that nickname stuck. When the Telerin host reached the Hithaeglir - the Misty Mountains - a large number of them were unwilling to go further, being afraid of crossing the menacing mountains, which were indeed Morgoth's creation, raised there to hinder the Valar and especially Oromë in making contact with the Eldar. While pondering on their course, they came to love the beauty of the Vale of Anduin, and in the end they abandoned the Great March altogether and settled there permanently. Nandor they were called by the Noldor in later years, but they called themselves by their old name, save in a new form - Lindi. Eventually, after many years of peace had passed, they split again when a large group led by Denethor headed off to the south and west, and after many long years crossed the Ered Luin and finally entered Beleriand, where they settled in a place they named Ossiriand (Land of Seven Rivers) under the shadow of the Blue Mountains. These Elves were from then on known as the Lindar, and their realm was called Lindon.
Nandor
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The Nandor are 'those who go back'; but in truth none of the Nandor went back to Cuiviénen - the Waters of Awakening - and none of them rejoined with the Avari, the Elves who refused the Valar's invitation. The Lord of the Nandor was Lenwë, and they had settled in the Vale of Anduin, east of the Misty Mountains. During the long years of Melkor's - who was to be called Morgoth - captivity in Mandos, they spread out and made their dwellings in Greenwood the Great, which today is known as Mirkwood, as well as in Lórien, and other places. After the end of the First Age, when Beleriand was lost and consumed by the waves of Belegaer, the Great Sea, some of the Sindar of Doriath travelled back east, unwilling to leave Middle-Earth at that time. Now, in the wane of the Third Age, most of the remaining Elves in Middle-Earth are of Nandorin origin.
House of Elrond
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This Elf is descendant in direct line of the royal House of Elrond. His House is special and its members are all liable to a unique fate. The Children of Elrond are both of elven and human descent. They are granted a unique fate, they have the Life of Elves as long as their father remains in Middle-Earth, but if Elrond departs from it, they have to follow him in order to keep the fate of the Elves, which is to be immortal within the Life of Arda, which has a certain though unknown limit and ends with the end of time; or when they choose to remain in Middle-Earth after the departure of their father, they become liable to the fate of mortal men, which is to leave Arda, if not Eä, after their death and go elsewhere. In the House of Elrond all royal Houses of the Eldar are joined. Through Elrond being a direct paternal descendant from Fingolfin and a direct maternal descendant from Elwë as well as through Celebrían, daughter of Galadriel, descending from Finarfin, Olwë and Ingwë. Therefore Elrond and his Heir could claim not only the High Kingship of the Noldor but the High Kingship of all Sindar as well, but they do not! The High Kingship of the Sindar stayed vacant ever since Dior Eluchil, Thingol's Heir, perished in the Second Kinslaying in First Age 511 and will remain so till the end of time.
House of the Golden Flower
House of Finarfin
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Finarfin was the last son of Finwë and he was the most gentle and noble minded one of them. He married Eärwen, Olwë of Alqualondë’s daughter, and thus his children were akin to Elwë. Three sons he had, Finrod, Angrod and Aikanár and one daughter, Galadriel. Finarfin led the third host of the Noldor on their way into exile, but his House and his followers fought against the hosts of Fëanor and Fingolfin during the First Kinslaying, thus defending their mother’s kin and the Teleri in Alqualondë. When Mandos declared the Doom of Fëanor, Finarfin repented and led many of his host back to Valinor, where the Valar granted them forgiveness. He lives there still and rules the Noldor in Tirion upon Túna. But all his children along with the rest of his folk and kin continued their march to Middle-Earth and thus fell under the Doom of Mandos. Of his children all vanished in the First Age but Galadriel, who is still alive and dwells together with her husband Celeborn in Lórien.
House of Fingolfin
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After the birth of Fëanor his mother Míriel forsook bodily Life. Her fëa, which is spirit in Quenya, left her hröa - body - which she layed down in Lorien and traveled to Mandos. This was a thing strange to both Eldar and Valar and had never happened before. Finwë was grieved and long tended his wife's body, but after some years went to Lorien no more. As the years passed by it came to pass that Finwë was eager to take a new wife. This also was a thing unknown and strange to the Eldar, because they marry but once and for all! Therefore he sought the council of Manwë and after long deliberation among the Valar, a statute was made and declared Doom by Mandos. Now Finwë was free to take a new spouse and his second wife was Indis, sister of Ingwë the King of the Vanyar. She bore him four children, Findis, Fingolfin, Irimë and Finarfin. Fingolfin the eldest son of these four followed Fëanor into exile leading the second host of the rebelling Noldor. During the Dagor Bragollach - the Battle of the Sudden Flame - in First Age 455 Fingolfin faced Morgoth himself, challenging him to a duel, seven times he wounded Morgoth with Ringil, his sword, but at last he was overcome.
House of Fëanor
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Finwë's first wife was Míriel called Serindë, which is the Weaver. They had but one child and in this child all of Míriels strength, which would otherwise have nourished many children, passed. His father named him after himself calling him Finwion, which is “little Finwë". This was a common custom among the Eldar. His mother Míriel named him Fëanáro - Spirit-of-Fire. This mother-name, or name of insight, later was slightly altered into Fëanor and that name stuck. Fëanor crafted the Silmarilli in which lie the fate of Arda if not all Eä, and he it was who led the Rebellion of the Noldor against the Valar. Fëanor was the greatest of all Noldor, besides Galadriel. He was slain by Balrogs in Dor-Daedeloth, the land of Morgoth, short before the dawn of the First Age. He had seven sons, Maedhros, Maglor, Celegorm, Curufin, Caranthir and the twin-brethren Amrod and Amros. They have all perished, maybe save Maglor the second eldest of them, but since Maedhros passed the High Kingship of the Noldor to Fingolfin, the ruling line hence passed with it. Nowadays there is no paternal descendant of Fëanor alive in Middle-Earth.
House of Amdír
House of Círdan
House of Elwë
House of Oropher
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Oropher was a noble Sindar of Doriath. After the Ruin of Doriath and the end of the First Age, he gathered eight companions and led them east across the Ered Luin. This Fellowship of the Nine, as it was later called, eventually reached Greenwood the Great, and there they were welcomed by the Nandor, whom they perceived as being of close kin. Due to their superior knowledge and wisdom, the nine nobles soon became Lords of the Nandor and Oropher, their leader, became King. In Second Age 3434, he fell with two-thirds of his army in the Battle of the Dargorlad, before the Black Gates. After the War of the Last Alliance was over and Sauron was overthrown, only a mere third of Oropher's host returned to their realm. They were led by King Thranduil, Oropher's son, who is their King still.
House of Denethor
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Denethor was the son of Lenwë, the leader of the Nandor, but unlike his father he was not content to stay in Wilderland. Therefore, after long years had passed by, he gathered those of the Nandor, who were willing to follow him, and led them south and west into Eriador where they finally crossed the Ered Luin and reached Beleriand. There they were welcomed by Elwë Singollo and made their home in Ossiriand, the Land of the Seven Rivers on the west flank of the Ered Luin. Shortly after their arrival in Beleriand, Melkor returned to Middle-Earth and drew Beleriand into war. In the First Battle of Beleriand, which was fought right before the dawn of the First Age and the coming of the exiled Noldor, Denethor marched his light-armed army to join forces with Elwë Singollo, but he was cut off and got surrounded by Orcs on the hilltop of Amon Ereb. There he fell and all his nearest kin about him, save only the women of his House. Since those days his people have never taken any Lord again.
House of Lenwë
reincarnate
Lived for Ages
Ancillaries:
Lord of the House of the Golden Flower
Lord of the House of Elwë
maternal relative of Fëanor
maternal relative of Finarfin
maternal relative of Fingolfin
maternal relative of Amdír
maternal relative of Círdan
maternal relative of Denethor
maternal relative of Lenwë
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