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| | The Middle-Earth Chronology - First Age |
 | | He warns Turgon, and tells him that Gondolin's doom is drawing near, and bids him with Ulmo's words to depart to the Mouths of Sirion. | | | Finrod leaves the crown to Orodreth, and goes with Beren and ten companions, disguised as Orcs, to the North. | | | Túrin goes mad because he slew Beleg, but Gwindor leads him to Eithel Ivrin and there heals him fron his madness. |
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http://www.tolkien.150m.com/Chrono/Chronology1.html
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| | Thus I have/ slain Forweg justly, since he was a man of Dor-lómin./"/ Then Algund, the old outlaw who had fled down Sirion from the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, said{ that Túrin's}/: "Your/ eyes {had}/have/ long reminded {him}/me/ of another whom {he}/I/ could not recall, and{ that} now {he}/I/ knew {him}/you/ for the son of Húrin. | | | But he perceived that not all those that lay there were dead; for by one his gaze was returned, and he looked in the eyes of Beleg the Elf. | | | Thus was Bar-en-Danwedh betrayed, for the Orcs came upon it by night at unawares, guided by Mîm. |
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http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?p=386185
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| | The only good news was that the mountains of Ered Wethrin and their fortress of Eithel Sirion had not yet been breached. | | | Occasionally a messenger got through, but the tales they told were only of hard battles and great loss of life in the defense of Hithlum. | | | Staring out unblinkingly, Gil-galad asked his companion in a low voice, "Will they be able to stop him, Rana? |
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http://www.melethryn.net/E/thefosterling.txt
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| | Turgon was lost in the Fall of the city, but some few (including Tuor and Idril, with their child Earendil) escaped the destruction and dwelt as Exiles at the Mouths of Sirion. | | | Turgon, son of Fingolfin, discovered the hidden vale of Tumladen, with the guide of the Vala Ulmo. | | | South were the lands of Dimbar, the region which lays between the rivers Mindeb and Sirion. |
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http://www.elvenkingdom.net/places/gondolin.php
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| | The Aging of Cirdan by Cirdan |
| | Fingon fought as he yielded ground and retreated toward Sirion, but at last he was surrounded by balrogs and werewolves and drakes. | | | He wanted to visit Thingol and gaze upon the Silmaril, within which was locked the last Light before the Sun and the Moon. | | | He wanted to go to Tol Sirion to pay his respects to Finrod Felagund, who had been buried on his own isle. |
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http://www.freewebs.com/edhellond/cirdan/aging_of_cirdan4.htm
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| | Entmoot - The Silmarillion Ch 14: Of Beleriand and Its Realms |
| | Fingolfin and Fingon his son held Hithlum, and the most part of Fingolfin's folk dwelt in Mithrim about the shores of the great lake; to Fingon was assigned Dor-lómin, that lay to the west of the Mountains of Mithrim. | | | There Beren and Lúthien dwelt after their return. | | | Upon the southern bank of Esgalduin, where it turned westward towards Sirion, were the Caves of Menegroth; and all Doriath lay east of Sirion save for a narrow region of woodland between the meeting of Teiglin and Sirion and the Meres of Twilight. |
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http://www.tolkientrail.com/entmoot/showthread.php?t=9495
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| | Dark forest north of Estolad, east of Doriath, in which Melian held Elwe. | | | Ford across the Gelion used by the Dwarf Road | | | Largest river of West Beleriand, flowing south from Eithel Sirion in Ard-Galen through Brethil and Doriath to the Bay of Balar |
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| | ~~The Five Great Battles of Beleriand~~ - www.ezboard.com |
| | Fingolfin, hearing tidings of Dorthonion, and how the Sons of Feanor were pushed from their land, it seemed to him that this was the utter doom of the Noldor. | | | Having not enough men or the right fortresses, Angrod and Aegnor were slain, and the majority of their elven folk. | | | Scouts Ingloriel and Gwindol yesterday spoted a small hatching of Drakes by the Northern mouth of the River Sirion, they invite all hunters to converge their for free quarry. |
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http://p089.ezboard.com/fminuialnaaduialfrm8.showMessage?topicID=10.topic
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| | Stories of Arda |
| | Eithel Sirion welled up and lay within those pale bounds like the mirror of Elbereth, smooth, perfectly circular, reflecting the sky and the peaks of the mountains in crystal brilliance. | | | And she had been certain that would be the last sight she would ever have of him. | | | It seemed to her that Celeborn was holding court, here on the Noldor-tamed banks of the Sirion, in the heart of King Fingolfin's realm, and neither he, nor Fingolfin's subjects, appeared to find it incongruous or out of place. |
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http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=1598&cid=7379
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| | Tolkienion Lexicon Letter G |
| | Called the Old; Dwarf smith, master of Telchar of Nogrod. | | | Younger son of Hador Lórindol, lord of Dor-lómin; slain with his father at Eithel Sirion in the Dagor Bragollach. | | | Called the Tall; son of Hador Goldenhead and Lord of Dor-lómin after him; father of Húrin and Húor; slain at Eithel Sirion. |
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http://www.tolkienion.com/lexicon/comp_g.html
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| | Originally written as a birthday story for Deborah "...Turgon son of Fingolfin left Nevrast where he dwelt and sought out Finrod his friend upon the island of Tol Sirion, and they journeyed southward along the river... | | | and as they journeyed night came upon them beyond the Meres of Twilight beside the waters of Sirion, and they slept upon his banks beneath the summer stars. | | | In the distance, the Falls of Sirion roared. |
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http://www.melethryn.net/F/incidentswillhappen.txt
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| | The Grey Havens - Middle-earth: First Age |
| | Beren retrieves the Ring of Felagund and lives as a solitary outlaw for the next four years. | | | Elwing flees to the mouths of Sirion with the Silmaril. | | | The Sons of Fëanor learn of the rise of Arvernien, and that the Silmaril is there. |
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http://tolkien.cro.net/mearth/firstage.html
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| | When an oath is not an oath! - THE TOLKIEN FORUM |
| | I have always wondered how the sons of Fëanor would have acted if Fëanor insted of making his sons keep their oath, would have granted them leave of it. | | | But as they drew near to Eithel Sirion and were upon the upward path to the pass over the mountains, Fëanor bade them halt; for his wounds were mortal, and he knew that his hour was come. | | | Then his sons raised up their father and bore him back towards Mithrim. |
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http://www.thetolkienforum.com/showthread.php?t=10943
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| | Narn i Hîn Húrin |
| | With them they brought Gelmir son of Guilin, that lord of Nargothrond whom they had captured in the Bragollach; and they had blinded him. | | | Thus fell the High King of the Noldor; and they beat him into the dust with their maces, and his banner, blue and silver, they trod into the mire of his blood. | | | He marched on therefore until the front of his battle was drawn up before the stream of Sirion, from the walls of the fortress of Eithel Sirion to the inflowing of Rivil at the Fen of Serech; and the outposts of Fingon could see the eyes of their enemies. |
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http://members.liwest.at/hastalavista/narn/nirnaeth.html
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| | Planet-Tolkien.com |
| | I think you will find Galdor, father of Húrin and Huor was slain at Eithel Sirion; thus, he didn't make it into the Third Age of Middle-earth. | | | Galdor the Tall did not make it into the Third Age, but Galdor the elf was Cirdan the Shipwright's emissary at the Council of Elrond. | | | #6: Does it have a two-word name, of which the first word ends in L? (And Vee, if it's west of Sirion, it can't be east of Gondolin. |
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http://www.planet-tolkien.com/board/cat/26/thread/760/800
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| | Húrin's first act was to seek out the hidden city of Gondolin, but Turgon was suspicious and ignored his cries; 'Turgon, Turgon, remember the Fen of Serech'. | | | FALLS OF SIRION HYPERLINK "http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/f/fallsofsirion.html" Falls of Sirion Sirion’s descent beneath the Andram. | | | The mighty thundering falls of the River Sirion, where its waters fell beneath the earth and flowed under the hills of the Andram for nine miles before emerging again. |
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http://home.hetnet.nl/~thdefeber/WAT.doc
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| | The Wars of Beleriand: Battles from the Silmarillion |
| | Evil indeed were the tidings that came at last to Angband, and Morgoth was dismayed. | | | For Celegorm, Fëanor's son, having news of them, waylaid them with a part of the Elven-host, and coming down upon them out of the hills near Eithel Sirion drove them into the Fen of Serech. | | | There he would have perished, had not his sons in that moment come up with force to his aid; and the Balrogs left him, and departed to Angband." Fëanor was carried back towards Mithrim, but near Eithel Sirion, on the upward path to cross the mountains, he felt his death coming and they stopped. |
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http://larsen-family.us/~1066/silbattles.html
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| | The Last Act of Feanor (ON TOPIC, plenty of First Age spoilers) |
| | So, after his fatal encounter with the Balrogs at the climax of the Battle Under Stars, Feanor was also granted the clarity of vision of the doomed: | | | What I consider to be of interest here is the apparent disjunction between the (correct) substance of Feanor’s “death vision,” that the Noldor would not be able to conquer Morgoth by their own power, and his response to this vision. | | | “
But as they drew near to Eithel Sirion and were on the upward path to the Passover the mountains, Feanor bade them halt; for his wounds were mortal, and he knew that his hour had come. |
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http://ringnuts.bravehost.com/lastactfeanor.htm
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| | myprecious.co.uk |
| | The faithful hound Huan accompanied Celegorm into exile. | | | Receiving news of an orc-host coming north from the Falas, he ambushed them and drove them into the Fen of Serech. | | | In the first assault of the Noldor on the Orcs, the Dagor-nuin-Giliath, Celegorm found himself in the hills around Eithel Sirion, in the north of the Ered Wethrin. |
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http://myprecious.co.uk/archive/characters1/celegorm.htm
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| | Anor ah Ithil |
| | Artanis kicked her horse into a gallop, overtaking and passing him in a moment. | | | I shall govern my people in their wisdom. | | | I will not return to Eithel Sirion with you as a single woman if you decide to force me to wed Maedhros. |
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http://www.anorahithil.net/stories/Dawn.html
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| | River Sirion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Barad Eithel, at the source of the Sirion in the Ered Wethrin, was a chief fortress of Fingolfin and his son Fingon, probably guarding a pass into their realm of Mithrim. | | | After the Coming of Men, the Edain of the House of Haleth made their home in the Forest of Brethil, and the Sindar ruled by Thingol lay secure within the Girdle of Melian in their realm of Doriath. | | | At the outflow of Sirion into Belegaer, after the destruction of Eglarest and Brithombar, the Havens of Sirion were built by Círdan and his people. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Sirion
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| | The great bay to the south of Beleriand into which the river Sirion flowed. | | | Isle of Balar Island in the Bay of Balar where Círdan and Gil-galad dwelt after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. | | | Forest between the rivers Teiglin and Sirion in Beleriand, dwelling-place of the People of Haleth. |
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http://www.tolkienion.com/lexicon/comp_b.html
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| | His birth-name was CuruFinwë; he was called Fëanor (from the Quenya Feanaro, the name given him by Miriel) because of the burning spirit evident within him. | | | Overcome by Sauron in a duel of songs of power, Finrod was imprisoned with Beren in what had been his own dungeons of Minas Tirith. | | | Although rescued by his sons, he died near Eithel Sirion, he who brought to the Noldor their greatest renown and their most grievous woe. |
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http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mithrandircq/Sil_encyclopediaDG.htm
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| | RingQuest - Beleriand |
| | Revil: A tributary of the river Sirion, it's rose in Dorthonion and flow westward and join the river Sirion at the Fen of serech. | | | Turgon fall with his city and also Etchelion and the fair Glorfindel. | | | This is where Barad Eithel the great fortress of Fingolfin has been built. |
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http://www.ringquest.com/forums/printthread.php?t=9900
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| | A Tale of Beleriand - www.ezboard.com |
| | Eithel Sirion had left his body as a wreck. | | | This warrior had been with him in Galdor’s foreguard and he had fought over his broken body after he had fallen. | | | At only thirteen years of age, Gundor and his grandfather had died defending the fortress of Eithel Sirion during the Dagor Bragollach, and so, his young mother had raised him fatherless from that point on the homestead of her kinsman Vared Edheron in Dor-Lomin. |
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http://p103.ezboard.com/frohan73264frm26.showPrevMessage?topicID=20.topic
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| | The Bag End Bugle Silmarillion Index |
| | He was named Curufinwë by his father and his name Fëanor means "Spirit of Fire", which his mother gave him before she died. | | | He left Valinor with his people and Fingolfin's people, but first slayed the Teleri at Alqualondë, swore the Oath of Fëanor, and burned all their ships so that Fingolfin and his kin would not be able to cross. | | | Maedhros sacked Doriath and the Havens of Sirion with his brothers to regain the Silmarils but was defeated. |
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http://thebagendbugle.net/silmarillion.html
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| | Chronology of the Silmarillion |
| | Thingol has Dwarves from Nogrod set his Silmaril in | | | The seven Sons of Fëanor attack Dior to recover the Silmaril; kill Dior and most of his people in a second Kinslaying. | | | The four remaining sons of Fëanor, seeking the Silmaril, swoop down upon the fugitives near Sirion; kill many. |
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http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mithrandircq/Silmarillion-Chronology.htm
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| | This was the plan long made in the halls of Eithel Sirion. | | | Fingolfin had ready with him 40,000 strong from Eithel Sirion. | | | This was sent to guard Tol Sirion so the enemy did not come from behind. |
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http://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/showthread.php?p=330636
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| | Dagor Bragollach Background/Design Notes/Strategy--Online Version |
| | Barad Eithel is held by Fingolfin's son, Fingon the Valiant. | | | I allowed him to see only those areas of Beleriand where his forces had traveled prior to the return of the Noldor. | | | As of version 4.0, the "wide" parts of rivers and the middle of mountain ranges are covered with a new unit called "impassable terrain." This was necessary because Beleriand is a land of high mountains and impassable rivers. |
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http://www.dor-lomin.com/dagor/backgrnd.html
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| | Fanatics Plaza: Elven Kingdom |
| | One time, they got separated from the others and would have been killed, had not Ulmo who favored the House of Hador used his powers in the Sirion to shield the boys from the orcs’ eyes. | | | He and his brother Huor were only boys, yet they fought against the orcs. | | | Seven year after the Dagor Bragollach Fingon’s stronghold Eithel Sirion was besieged, and Galdor killed by an arrow. |
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http://www.lotrplaza.com/elves/hurin.asp
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| | + Esgalduin : It was a great river that flowed through Doriath and finally flowed into the Sirion. | | | + Eithel Sirion : The River Sirion had its source at this spring. | | | He created the Ainur and through the Music of the Ainur he created Arda. |
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http://www.warofthering.net/ahobbitstale/tolkien/tolkien_encyclopedia_e.htm
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| | Galdor who held the fortress on behalf of Fingon was slain but his son Hurin defeated the Orcs and drowe them with loss from the walls into the sands of Anfauglith. | | | When they arrived in Middle-Earth after the crossing of the Grinding Ice the Sun arose for the first time. | | | Fingon held Dor-Lomin but the chief fortress of Fingon and his father was Barad Eithel near Eithel Sirion. |
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http://www.annalsofarda.dk/annals-of-arda/elves-index-tables/Elves/Fingon.htm
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| | 'Tower of the Well', the fortress of the Noldor at Eithel Sirion. |
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http://www.thetolkienwiki.org/wiki.cgi?Barad__Eithel
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| | Trapped between the two Ñoldorin forces, the Orcs fought unendingly for ten days, encircled at the Fens of Serech. | | | The forces of Morgoth that had been besieging the Havens of the Falas since the First Battle of Beleriand marched north to attack the Ñoldor in the rear, but a taskforce led by Celegorm ambushed them at Eithel Sirion. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagor-nuin-Giliath
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| | 445: Birth of Ereinion, son of Fingon, in Eithel Sirion. | | | Remaining citizens of Eithel Sirion follow Turgon to Gondolin. | | | 532: Birth of Elrond and Elros at the Havens of Sirion. |
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http://elffetish.com/taleofyears.html
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| | This was not the case, and as Cuzza and Samovuk departed through the Orfalch Echor the King wept in sorrow for his only son, who's rage and wrath were still hot within him. | | | Samovuk's efforts to dissuade Cuzza from his task were fruitless, as Cuzza ignored all counsel he would offer. | | | As time passed Tapestry recovered to full health, and Cusarn asked his mother to accompany him to the lands of the Noldor. |
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http://10923.rapidforum.com/topic=101282315162
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| | Snowbourn - Snowmane - Snowmen of Forochel - Solisimpi - Sons of Fëanor - Soronto - Southfarthing - Southrons - Spring of Arda - Star of Eärendil - Star of Elendil - Star of the Dúnedain - Starkhorn - Stewards during the Watchful Peace - Steward of Gondor - | | | Sirannon - Siril - Sirion - Siriondil - Sirith - Sketch of the Mythology - | | | Ringwraith - Rivendell - River Brithon - River Celon - River Gelion - River Narog - River Nenning - River Running - River Sirion - River Teiglin - Rivers of Gondor - |
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| | Searchword not found in the selected dictionary, but you can try the following: | | | Embed a dictionary search in your own web page | | | Eithel Sirion - definition of Eithel Sirion in Encyclopedia |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Eithel_Sirion
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| | Encyclopedia of Arda: River Sirion |
| | The greatest of the rivers of Beleriand, the Sirion flowed some 850 miles from its source in the cold highlands of the Ered Wethrin to its mighty delta on the Bay of Balar. | | | It was unusual in that, for some nine miles of its middle course, it flowed underground from the wide, enchanted marshland of Aelin-uial beneath the high land known as the Andram. | | | The Sirion was regarded as the border between East and West Beleriand. |
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| | Where Have All the Dragons Gone? — Merp.com Website |
| | Hador and his younger son Gundor fell before the walls of Eithel Sirion, the mighty fortress which protected one of the chief passes over the Ered Wethrin into Hithlum. | | | Hurin could wear the helm but because of his short stature he was uncomfortable with it, and he preferred to look his foes directly in the eye. | | | Hador may not have worn the dragon-helm when he led a rearguard action for Fingolfin soon after the Dagor Bragollach. |
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http://www.merp.com/essays/MichaelMartinez/michaelmartinezsuite101essay67/document_view?month:int=4&year:int=2005
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| | During [the battle of] Dagor Bragollach, Hador commanded the rearguard of Fingolfin and was slain in the defense of Eithel Sirion." 5) Note that some of Elven politics (and Dwarvish, for that matter) appear in the Council scene. | | | Rather than make the notes section longer than the story, suffice it to say that the Noldor and Sindar aren't always best buds |
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| | GreenBooks.TheOneRing.net™ Question & Answer Month of 07/01 |
| | The "Index of Names" to The Silmarillion has the following listing for Galdor: "Called the Tall; son of Hador Lórindol and lord of Dor-lómin after him; father of Húrin and Huor; slain at Eithel Sirion." This is a human named Galdor, not an Elf. | | | As there is no other listing for this name, I must assume at face value that there was no Elf called Galdor mixed up in the doings of The Silmarillion enough to warrant a mention. | | | Is there any reason to doubt that the Galdor of Rivendell was the mighty Galdor of Gondolin? |
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http://greenbooks.theonering.net/questions/files/070101.html
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| | The source of the river Sirion, located at the foot of EredWethrin. |
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http://www.thetolkienwiki.org/wiki.cgi?EithelSirion
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| | Middle-earth Quiz Book |
| | What was the name of the Noldorin tower at Eithel Sirion? | | | What was the name of the "White Horn Tower" at Eglarest? |
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| | Eithel Sirion S; eithel see previous; see also SIR- flow, Nol sîr river [Etym]; the -ion suffix forms a | | | Eithel Ivrin S; see eithel well [appx], from KEL- run (especially of water), Nol eithel spring [Etym; ET- | | | et-kele = Q ehtelë, S eithel; a gate warden of Gondolin |
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http://www.quicksilver899.com/Tolkien/SILM/SILM_CE.html
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| | The Feanorian Realms - THE TOLKIEN FORUM |
| | Therefore vigilant watch was kept across the the North, and as Autumn gave way to Winter more riders than usual were sent to venture the desolate plains spread wide before Angband, for it had been a wet Autumn and fogs did not relent. | | | Nonetheless Maedhros, standing high atop Himring, looked out in wariness to the plain of Lothlann, and the watchmen of Eithel Sirion in Hithlum grew uneasy. | | | Not six years since the victory of The Glorious Battle the lands of the North began to quake, but smoke did not belch this time from Thangorodrim, and armies came not forth onto the plain in contest with Beleriand. |
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http://www.thetolkienforum.com/showthread.php?p=452408#post452408
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