Morgoth was then captured by the Valar and expelled from Earth (which I how I thought Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn was going to end, that Ineluki and Simon were both going to be shot into space in the White Tower), thus ended the War of Wrath and concluded the First Age of Middle Earth. The dragon was so big his fall to earth brought down mountains and led to entire landmasses sinking below the sea. Thereafter Earendil's fate was to forever herald the dawn, and at the climax of the War of Wrath he used his magic white ship to slay Morgoth's gigantic un-killable dragon Ancalagon the Black. He succeeds in getting the help of the Valar but they do not let him return to the world of men, instead they build him a magical white ship Vingilot, and he gets launched into space and becomes the most beautiful star in the sky. Earendil builds a ship out of white wood and sails west to the Otherworld, but cannot reach Valinor until his wife Elwing comes to him as a bird and gives him the Silmaril to wear upon his brow, then he is allowed to find Valinor. The last hope for humanity is for Earendil to sail to the Undying Lands to seek the aid of the Valar (the gods). So, at this time at the end of the First Age, Morgoth's Shadow lies over the land. (Melkor had caused two periods of Great Darkness previously, first when he destroyed the Two Lamps, and then when he and Ungoliant destroyed the Two Trees of Valinor and caused the Darkening of Valinor also known as the Long Night). I will perhaps summarize the story in greater detail later, but the short version of Earendil's story is that in Middle Earth at the end of the First Age, humans and elves are losing the battle against the Dark Lord Morgoth aka Melkor. Earendil was Aragorn's ancestor as well, as the line of the Dunedain was founded through Elrond's brother Elros.Įorendil is an Anglo-Saxon word that means “dayspring, dawn, ray of light, bright star” and is used to refer to Venus, ( aka eosphorus-“light-bringer”) (the Dune dain were descended from Dawn) Little known fact: Elrond's father was Earendil who blasted off the surface of the Earth and into space on a magic white ship that became the Dawn star/the Flammifer ( the Flame-Bringer, obvious parallel to Lucifer/ Lightbringer).
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