The Year of Lamentation
472 Fi. A. Maedhros forms the League of Maedhros against Morgoth; Orodreth and Thingol do not join it.
The Easterlings and the Dwarves join the forces of Caranthir and Maedhros.
April: Huor, brother of Húrin, Lord of Dor-Lómin, weds Rian, daughter of Belegund, Beren's cousin.
June, 18th: The forces of the League recapture Tol Sirion and Dorthonion.
June, 22nd: The Noldor begin their assault on Angband.
Maedhros is delayed by false news from Uldor, Prince of the Easterlings.
Morgoth sends a host against the people of Fingon, that contains Elves of Hithlum and Gondolin and Men from Dor-Lómin and the Brethil Forest.
This host manages to lure the host of Fingon out of their palce, because Gwindor of Nargothrond, who went to the War, could not withstand what they did to is brother, whom Morgoth took captive in the Dagor Bragollach.
Fingon's host draws Morgoth's forces to the Gates of Angband, but is defeated;
part of his host is trapped in Angband and all are slain, except Gwindor of Nargothrond.
Haldir, lord of the Haladin, is slain, and so is most of the Haladin force.
Handir, his son, becomes Lord of the Haladin.
The Dagor Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Battle of Unnumbered Tears, begins.
June, 23rd:
3:00 AM: The host of Fingon is surrounded, but Turgon comes to his brother's aid with the Gondolindrim.
Maedhros attacks Morgoth from the east, and Morgoth sends to the battle his last reserve: the Wolves, the Dragons and the Balrogs.
Noon: Part of the Easterlings, led by Ulfang and his sons, betrays Maedhros, as was planned by Morgoth.
A hidden host of Easterlings attacks Maedhros in the flank, and he withdraws to the south.
Azaghâl, Lord of Belegost, wounds Glaurung, the Father of the Dragons, but is mortally wounded by him.
The Dwarves of Belegost withdraw to the south-east.
Gothmog, Lord of the Balrogs, throws Turgon and the Men of Dor-Lomin to the Fen of Serech, and attacks Fingon.
Fingon is slain by Gothmog, and Turgon becomes High King of the Noldor.
Dusk: Turgon withdraws to the south behind the cover of the Men of Dor-Lomin, who, led by Huor and Húrin, defended the Pass of Sirion.
June, 24th:
All the Men of Dor-Lómin, including Huor and excluding Húrin, are slain.
Húrin is taken captive to Angband, and Morgoth curses all his kin, and paralizes him, and causes him to see and hear all from his, Morgoth's point of view.
The Dagor Nirnaeth Arnoediad ends.

July: The Easterlings come to Hithlum and Dor-Lomin and enslave their Men-dwellers.
The Elves of Hithlum are taken captive by Morgoth and also enslaved, save a remnant that manages to escape.
Hithlum and Dor-Lómin are destroyed.
The sons of Fëanor withdraw to Ossiriand.
Autumn: Morwen, Rían's sister and Hurin's wife, sends her son Turin to Doriath with two servants.
December: Tuor, son of Huor and Rían, is born, and is fostered by the Sindar of Hithlum, who escaped from Morgoth.

473 Fi. A.
In this time Morwen's second child, Nienor, is born.
Túrin comes to Doriath and is received by Thingol (Morwen was Beren's kinswoman).
Rían goes to the grave of those who fell in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, and dies on it.
October: Morgoth attacks the Falas;
the cities fo Brithombar and Eglarest, and the tower of Barad Nimras are ravaged.
Most of the Falathrim are slain, but some escape by ships and settle on the Isle of Balar;
with them was Ereinion Gil-Galad, Fingon's son.
November: Turgon, with the aid of Círdan, Lord of the Isle of Balar, builds seven ships and sends people to the West, in order to bring the Valar news about the Elves' troubles, but none of them reaches Valinor.

Narn i Hîn Húrin
481 Fi. A.
Túrin goes to the marches of Doriath and fights there against Orcs.
484 Fi. A.
Túrin returns to Menegroth;
he is insulted by Thingol's advisor Saeros; on the following day he causes his death.
Therefore, he escapes from Doriath and joins to a group of outlaws west of the Sirion.
485 Fi. A.
Túrin becomes the captain of his outlaws, under the name of Neithan, The Wronged;
Beleg Cúthalion, his friend, finds him and brings news about him to Thingol;
Túrin doesn't want to leave his Men, and doesn't want to return to Doriath.
Beleg goes to Dimbar, and Thingol gives him the sword Anglachel, that was made by Eöl from meteoric iron; and Melian gave him the lembas, the Waybread of the Elves.
Turin moves to Amon Rûdh, and there his Men capture a Dwarf, called Mîm, who offered them his hidden house as the ransom for his and his son's lives; and since then it was called Bar-en-Danwedh, House of Ransom.
December: Beleg joins Túrin again on Amon Rûdh.
486 Fi. A. Orcs begin to invade West Beleriand again;
Beleg and Turin, who now calls himself Gorthol, the Dread Helm, thwart their assaults.
Thenceforward the land between the river Teiglin and the western borders of Doriath was called Dor-Cúarthol, the Land of the Bow and the Helm.
Túrin's company grows.
November: Mîm is taken captive by Orcs near the Amon Rudh;
he betrays Turin to them as his life's ransom.
Turin is taken captive by the Orcs, and many of his Men are slain;
but Beleg Cúthalion, Strongbow, the Orcs did not slay, but he was wounded.
Beleg heals himself and begins to pursue the Orcs, that were taking Turin to Angband.
487 Fi. A.
January: Beleg pursues the Orcs until Dorthonion.
He meets there an Elf, Gwindor, son of Guilin, Lord of Nargothrond, whom Morgoth enslaved, among many other Noldorin Elves, in mines in the Ered Engrin, and who managed to escape from there.
Gwindor tells him, that he has seen a company of Orcs driving a chained Man to Angband.
Beleg and Gwindor continue to pursue the Orcs.
They find the Orcs on the plain of Anfauglith, within the sight of Thangorodrim.
Beleg shoots the guard of the camp, and then takes Túrin, who was still tied up, from the camp.
When he and Gwindor carried him to Dorthonion, he started to cut Túrin's bonds with Anglachel; but Túrin suddenly waked up, took Anglachel and slew Beleg, "thinking him a foe" (The Silmarillion, Chapter 21).
Túrin and Gwindor bury Beleg with his bow Belthrondig, but Turin took the sword Anglachel, and they also took the lembas.
October: Túrin goes mad because he slew Beleg, but Gwindor leads him to Eithel Ivrin and there heals him fron his madness.
Then, he gives him the sword Anglachel and leads him to Nargothrond, where he is welcomed.

488 Fi. A.
Winter: The Sindar outlaws of Hithlum try to escape to the Mouths of Sirion, but are waylaid;
Tuor is enslaved by Lorgan, chief of the Easterlings in Hithlum.

~490 Fi. A.
Finduilas, daughter of Orodreth, King of Nargothrond, falls in love with Turin instead of Gwindor, whom she loved before;
Turin defends the Talath Dirnen, the Guarded Plain, and receives the name Mormegil, Black Sword.
Anglachel is reforged and becomes Gurthang, Iron of Death.
In the meanwhile, Túrin rejects Finduilas' love;
Gwindor, in his trials to turn Finduilas' heart back to him, reveals her Túrin's name and the curse that lies upon his family.
Therefore Orodreth gives Túrin great honour, and makes him his advisor;
Túrin persuades him to change his policy from stealth to openness, despite Gwindor's opposite counsels.
Orodreth builds a bridge from Nargothrond over the Sirion;
The forces of Nargothrond defeat Morgoth west of the Sirion and in the Falas.
Morwen, using this, flees from Dor-Lómin to Doriath with her daughter Nienor.
But, Túurin's name is not spoken, at his prayer, and neither Thingol nor Morwen know, that he is Mormegil.

491 Fi. A.
Tuor escapes from Lorgan and becomes a solitary outlaw.

495 Fi. A.
Spring: Círdan sends messengers to Orodreth, and warns him about the danger in his policy;
the messengers bring counsel form Ulmo: to shut the doors of the fortress and to destroy the bridge; but Turin rejects them.
Summer: Orcs invade the Brethil Forest, and slay Handir, Lord of the Haladin.
Autumn: Morgoth attacks Nargothrond;
Glaurung goes in front of his host, and defiles Eithel Ivrin and burns the Talath Dirnen.
Orodreth sends forth his army, but Morgoth's host drives most of them between the rivers Narog and Ginglith, to the Plain of Tumhalad, and there slays them;
Gwindor is mortally wounded, and he tells Túrin to go to Nargothrond and save Finduilas.
Túrin speeds to Nargothrond, gathering force, but comes too late.
There, Glaurung puts him under his spell, and puts lies into his mind;
he orders him not to pursue the Orcs, that led the captives, and Finduilas among them, but to haste to Dor-Lómin, so that he'll save Morwen and Nienor.
November: So Turin does, and he goes to Dor-Lomin, where he learns that Morwen and Nienor went to Doriath.
Perceiving that Glaurung lied to him, he slays Brodda, the Easterling who was then Lord of Dor-Lomin.

*In the summer of this year Tuor leaves Hithlum, because Ulmo set an unrest in his heart;
he goes from Dor-Lómin through the Annon-in-Gelydh, Gate of the Noldor, to Nevrast.
In the autumn, he comes to Vinyamar, Turgon's city in Nevrast, and there find the arms, the mail and the sword, that Turgon left there by the command of Ulmo, and wears them on himself.
When he comes back to the shore, Ulmo arises from the sea and orders him to go to Gondolin, "for him he chose as the instrument of his designs" (The Silmarillion, Chapter 23).
On the next day tuor finds on the shore and Elf, Voronwë of Gondolin, who was the only survivor from the seven ships that Turgon sent to Valinor;
and with him he goes to Gondolin.
*It's interesting that on their way, near Eithel Ivrin, they saw Túrin, as he was going to Dor-Lomin, but they passed him by and didn't speak to him. (Tuor did not know his cousin).
*In the same year Tuor comes to Gondolin, and is greeted, for he was recognized by his gear as the one whom Ulmo has sent.
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.
Turgon pondered indeed this counsel, and remembered Ulmo's words, that he said to him in Nevrast:
"Love not oo well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the est, and comeh from the Sea." (The Silmarillion, Chapters 15, 23).
But, at last he rejected that counsel, because he became proud and still believed in the stealth and secrecy of Gondolin;
and Maeglin also urged him to reject Ulmo's counsel, and spoke ever against Tuor and Turgon's councils.
Tuor falls in love with Idril, Turgon's daughter, and she falls in love with him.

496 Fi. A.
January: Túrin, escaping from Dor-Lómin and seeking for Finduilas, comes to the Brethil Forest, and there is told, that when the Haladin waylaid the Orcs who led the captives of Nargothrond , the Orcs slew all their captives, and Finduilas also.
The hill, upon which was her grave, was thenceforward called Haudh-en-Elleth, the Mound of the Elf-maid.
Túrin, learning this, falls into a darkness of grief and almost dies;
but Brandir, son of Handir, Lord of the Haladin, heals him, though he fears that Turin's come will bring evil.
*It has to be mentioned that Turin was recognized as himself, because of his sword Gurthang.
Spring: Turin recovers from his grief and darkness.
In the meanwhile, the refugees of Nargothrond come to Doriath with news:
that the Mormegil was Túrin, and that Glaurung dwelt in Nargothrond, and that Turin died.
Morwen goes from Doriath in order to get true news about her son, and Nienor rides with her, disguised as one of Thingol's soldiers who went with Morwen under the command of Mablung of Doriath.
Morwen and her escort ride to Nargothrond, and halt near the Amon Ethir, the Hill of Spies.
Glaurung, seeing them near Amon Ethir, sends a mist on them, and then finds Nienor and, learning who she is, casts on her a spell of total forgetfulness, and returns to Nargothrond.
In the meanwhile, Mablung explored the halls of Nargothrond, and when Glaurung returns, he returned to Amon Ethir and found there only Nienor, and afterwards three more of his warriors, and with them returns to Doriath.
But, near the borders of Doriath they are waylaid by an Orc-band, and though they defeat the Orcs, Nienor, in a fear madness, flees to the Brethil Forest.
There, she is met by Túrin; and they did not know each other, and she loved Turin, and he loved her, and he gave her the name Niniel, Tear-maiden.
On their way to Ephel Brandir, where the Haladin dwelt, Nienor becomes sick with fever;
she is tended by the Haladin women and by Brandir, who falls in love with her, but Nienor loved him not.
*Nienor is taught again words etc.

497 Fi. A.
Turin asks Nienor for marriage; she doesn't accept this, in spite of her love.
Brandir tells her that Turambar, as Túrin named himself in Brethil, is Túrin, son of Húrin.
498 Fi. A.
June, 22nd: Túrin weds Nienor.
October: Glaurung attacks the Brethil Forest with Orcs;
Turin goes to war, despite his promise to Nienor.
The Orcs are defeated; but Glaurung perceives that Turin is now in Brethil.
499 Fi. A.
Spring: Glaurung issues from Nargothrond.
Summer: Glaurung comes to the western borders of the Brethil Forest.
Túrin goes against him, and orders the Haladin to prepare for flight; Dorlas and Hunthor, who were high-esteemed in Brethil, go with him.
*Dorlas on this occasion shames Brandir before his people;
for Brandir was lame from childhood, and could not go with Túrin.
After Túrin had gone wetward, Nienor went after him with many of the Haladin people;
Brandir renounces his lordship upon the Haladin and goes after Nienor.
Túrin comes to Cabed-en-Aras, where Glaurung was; Dorlas forsakes him.
Túrin decides to cross the Teiglin, so that the Dragon will not see him and his companion, because of the cliffs of the shores.
So he does; but while he was climbing the cliff to the Dragon, Glaurung woke up, and a huge boulder falls on Hunthor and throws him into the Teiglin.
Turin climbs to the cliff and there slays Glaurung with Gurthang.
Glaurung flies in his agony to the other bank of the Teiglin, and Turin follows him back.
There, he takes Gurthang out of Glaurung's belly, but the poison that follows it causes him to faint.
Then Nienor comes to Cabed-en-Aras, willing to see Turin; and then Glaurung takes his spell from her, and she remembers all her life, and, perceiving that she had married her own brother, and seeing her husband dead, she casts herself into the Teiglin.
Glaurung dies also.
Brandir goes back; in the woods he meets Dorlas, and kills him;
then, he comes to Nen Girith, where all the Haladin led by Nienor waited.
He says them all he has seen: Glaurung, Túrin, and Nienor are dead, and Nienor was no other than Túrin's sister etc.
In this very moment Túrin returns, for he had recovered from his faint;
he disbelieves Brandir, and charging him with leading Nienor to her death, slays him before all the Haladin and flees into the woods, to Haudh-en-Elleth.
Then, Mablung of Doriath comes to him, and at his bidding tells him about Morwen and Nienor.
Then, Túrin, knowing that Brandir spoke true, ran to Cabed-en-Aras, and there cast himself upon Gurthang.
Thenceforward Cabed-en-Aras was called Cabed Naemarath, Leap of the dreadful Doom.
Then Mablung and his Elves and the Haladin came thither, and burned Glaurung, and buried Túrin, and on his grave wrote: "TÚRIN TURAMBAR DAGNIR GLAURUNGA", which is "Túrin, Master of Doom, Glaurung's Bane".
And beneath they wrote: "NIENOR NINIEL", though it's not known whither the Teiglin had taken her.

Doriathlantë
500 Fi. A.
Morgoth releases Húrin from Angband, after 28 years of captivity.
He tries to re-enter Gondolin, and calls upon Turgon; Thorondor the Eagle sees him and tells this to Turgon, but Turgon refuses to let Húrin enter Gondolin, for he thought that Húrin had surrendered to Morgoth;
but when Húrin called upon Turgon, Morgoth's spies heard him, and thus Morgoth learned Gondolin's location.
Afterwards, he goes to Cabed Naemarath, where he meets Morwen, his wife, who dies in front of his eyes.
He buries her also in Cabed Naemarath, and writes on the stone: "Here lies also Morwen Eledhwen".
*It was said, that the Stone of the Hapless will never be defiles nor thrown down, and afterwards, when Beleriand was drowned, Tol Morwen still stood alone amid the waters of Belegaer.
After this, Húrin goes to Nargothrond, and found it desolate and empty;
and there he also meets Mîm, the Petty-Dwarf who betrayed Turin;
he slays him, and takes from Nargothrond the Nauglamír, Necklace of the Dwarves, that was made in the past for Finrod Felagund, King of Nargothrond.
Then he goes to Doriath, where is brought before King Thingol and treated with honour;
but Húrin only gives him the Nauglamír and charges him with the ill-keeping of Morwen, Túrin and Nienor;
but Melian reveals Húrin Morgoth's bewitch, and tells him, that she and Thingol were keeping them in Doriath, and that they didn't want them to leave it.
After this, Húrin perceives all Morgoth had done, and gives him the Nauglamír as a memorial from him.
*It is said, that after all these Hurin wanted to live no longer, and he cast himself into the Western Sea.
Thingol orders to his Dwarf-smiths to put the Simaril inside the Nauglamir;
the Dwarves accept to this, but they desire both the Nauglamír and the Silmaril to themselves.
501 Fi. A.
The Dwarf-smiths complete their work;
but when Thingol wanted to take it, they withheld the Nauglamir from him, saying that he has no right in it (though he had, for he was the closest living kinsman of Finrod Felagund, for whom the Nauglamir was made);
but Thingol perceived their true wanting, and he shamed them proudly and banished them form Doriath;
but his words raged the Dwarves, and they slew Thingol as he stood among them, took the Nauglamír, and fled from Doriath.
But the Dwarves were pursued, and most of them were slain, and the Nauglamir was brought back to Melian;
but two of these Dwarves escaped from the pursue, and came back to Nogrod, and told their kinsmen that they were killed by Thingol's order, because he wanted to cheat them of their reward;
and "great were the wrath and lamentation of the Dwarves of Nogrod" (The Simarillion, Chapter 22).
The Dwarves of Nogrod want vengeance, and they ask for help in Belegost;
but the Dwarves of Belegost refuse to help them in their war with Doriath.
Nonetheless, the Dwarves of Nogrod march towards Doriath.
*In the same time the Girdle of Melian is removed, when Melian departs back to Valinor.
Mablung at Melian's bidding sends word to Beren and Luthien about what befell.
The Dwarves of Nogrod enter Doriath unhindered, and the Sindarin Captains do not stop them;
at the very last they come to Menegroth, and there defeat the Elves, and take the Nauglamir with the Silmaril.
In this battle, Battle of Menegroth, Mablung the Heavy-Handed fell, defending the treasury.
But, tidings came to Beren and Lúthien and Dior their son about Thingo;'s death, and about the Dwarves of Nogrod marching towards Doriath;
and Beren and Dior and many Green-Elves from Ossiriand went to the north, and when the Dwarves returned by the Sarn Athrad to Nogrod, they were waylaid, and many were slain;
and those who escaped met the Shepherds of the Trees on their way, and no one from them returned to Nogrod.
In this battle Beren himself slew the Lord of Nogrod, and took from him the Nauglamir.
Dior, as Thingol's grandson, becomes King of Doriath.
502 Fi. A.
Autumn: Beren and Lúthien die in Tol Galen, and Dior receives the Nauglamir with the Silmaril.
The Sons of Fëanor demand the Silmaril for themselves, but Dior rejects this claim.
Winter: The Sons of Fëanor assail Doriath;
Celegorm, Curufin and Caranthir are slain;
but Dior too, and his wife Nimloth, and his sons, Eluréd and Elurin, are slain.
But Elwing, Dior's daughter, escapes from Doriath with the Silmaril and settles with the other refugees of Doriath in the Mouths of Sirion.

*In the same year Tuor marries Idril Celebrindal in Gondolin.

Ondolindelantë
503 Fi. A.
Eärendil, son of Tuor and Idril Celebrindal, is born in Gondolin.
Idril prepares a secret exit out of Gondolin.
~507 fi. A.
Maeglin is taken captive by Morgoth outside of the Encircling Mountains, while he was searching for metals.
He reveals Morgoth the place of Gondolin and the ways over the hills;
Morgoth promises him the lordship of Gondolin as his vassal, and Idril Celebrindal also.
After this, Maeglin returns to Gondolin, lest his betrayal will be suspected.
510 Fi. A.
Morgoth attacks Gondolin, using Maeglin's information;
Echtelion, the Captain of Gondolin, slays Gothmog, Lord fo the Balrogs, but is slain by him also.
Turgon is slain.
Tuor escapes with Idril, Eärendil, and a remnant of the people of Gondolin;
he also slays Maeglin, who laid his hands upon Idril.
Tuor etc. escape through the Cirith Thoronnath, Eagles' Cleft in the Encircling Mountains, but there they are met by a group of Orcs escorted by a Balrog.
The Balrog is slain by Glorfindel, the Second Captain, who is slain by him also.
The Orcs are defeated by Thorondor and his Eagles.
The refugees of Gondolin, led by Tuor, come to Nan-Tathren, and afterwards to the Mouths of Sirion, where they join the refugees of Doriath.
Gil-Galad is crowned as High King of the Noldor in Middle-Earth.
*About this time Ulmo comes to Valinor and urges the Valar to assail Morgoth and help the Elves and the Men against him;
but Manwë says, that a messenger from the Elves and the Men themselves, bearing a plea for pardon, is needed to move them against Morgoth.
~530 Fi. A.
Eärendil marries Elwing.
Tuor, feeling that old age creeps upon him, sails with Idril to Valinor, and is accepted there as an Elf.

The Voyage of Eärendil
532 Fi. A.
Elros, the son of Eärendil and Elwing, is born.
535 Fi. A. Elrond, Eärendil's second son, is born.
548 Fi. A.
Eärendil sails in the Sea in his seek for Tuor and for Valinor.
The Sons of Fëanor demand the Silmaril from Elwing; she refuses.
The Sons of Fëanor attack the dwelling upon the Mouths of Sirion;
Amrod and Amras are slain.
Elrond and Elros are taken captive, but Maglor treats them well.
The remnants of Arvernien go to the Isle fo Balar, and join Cirdan and Gil-Galad.
Elwing casts herself with the Silmaril into the Sea.
Ulmo saves her and turns her into a bird, and in this form she flies over the Sea to Eärendil.
     "There flying Elwing came to him,
      and flame was in the darkness lit;
      more bright than light of diamond
      the fire upon her carcanet." (LOTR, II, 1).
She falls on Eärendil's ship Vingilot, and on the next day turns to her original form.
She tells Eärendil of the assault about the Sons of Fëanor upon the Mouths of Sirion, and Eärendil, seeing no more hope left in Middle-Earth, turns in his despair towards Valinor again.
     "The Silmaril she [Elwing - M. B.] bound on him
      and crowned him with the living light
      and dauntless then with burning brow
      he turned his prow; and in the night
      from Otherworld beyond the Sea
      there strong and free a storm arose
      a wind of power in Tarmenel;
      by paths that seldom mortal goes
      his boat it bore with biting breath
      as might of death across the grey
      and long-forsaken seas distressed:
      from east to west he passed away." (LOTR, II, 1).
And it comes to pass that by the power of the Silmaril he comes through the enchanted isles first to Tol Eressëa, and then to the Bay of Eldamar.
There he leaves his companion-mariners, Falathar, Erellont and Aerandir, lest the wrath of the Valar falls on them too;
but Elwing goes with him ashore, to Valinor, for she didn't want to be sundered from him.
Yet Eäarendil bids Elwing not to go with him to the Valar, and he goes alone through the Calacirya.
Eönwë salutes him and summons him to the Ring of Doom.
     "He came unto the Timeless Halls
      where shining fall the countless years
      and endless reigns the Elder King
      in Ilmarin on Mountain sheer;
      and words unheard were spoken then
      of folk of men and Elven-kin,
      beyond the world there visions showed
      forbid to those that dwell therein." (LOTR, II, 1).
There, in the coucil of the Valar, he tells them of the troubles of Elves and Men, and asks for pardon for the Noldor and for help against Morgoth;
and his prayer is granted.
After this, and after Eärendil goes to seek Elwing, the Valar judge Eärendil and Elwing, who broke the Ban of the Valar and came to Valinor against their will;
but because this was their doom - to come to Valinor and speak for the Elves and the Men before the Valar, they are not punished by death, though Manwë decides that they shall not walk again in Middle-Earth.
They therefore are given the choice: under which kindred to be judged.
In the meanwhile, Elwing comes to Alqualondë, and there tells the Teleri of the Elves in Beleriand; and there Eärendil finds her.
When Eärendil and Elwing come back to the Ring of Doom, Manwë's decree is declared to them, and Elwing chooses to be judged as an Elf, and so does Eärendil, because he didn't want to be sundered from her.
And the Valar sent Eärendil's three companions back to Middle-Earth, but took Vingilot, Eärendil's ship, and hallowed it, and brought it to the uttermost West, even of Valinor, to the very edge of Arda;
and there they lifted it and sent it through the Door of Night out of Arda.
And Eärendil sat in Vingilot, glistening with gem-dust, with the Silmaril upon his brow;
far he journeyed in Vingilot, and was most often seen at sunrise and sunset, as he came back to Valinor from his journeys.
But Elwing was not with him in Vingilot, in his voyages in Ilmen, the Path of the Light;
for her a tall white tower in the north of Aman was built, and there came many birds from all Arda; from them Elwing learned the birds' tongue and the craft of flying.
And when Eärendil came back to Arda from his voyages, she flew to him in the shape of a bird.
     "A ship then new they built for him
      of Mithril and of Elven-glass
      with shining prow; no shaven oar
      nor sail she bore on silver mast;
      the Silmaril as lantern light
      and banner bright with living flame
      to gleam thereon by Elbereth
      herself was set, who thither came
      and wings immortal made for him
      and laid on him undying Doom,
      to sail the shoreless skies and come
      behind the Sun and light of Moon." (LOTR, II, 1).
When Eärendil first flew on Vingilot in the heavens before dusk, he was named Gil-Estel, Star of (High) Hope.

The War of Wrath
550 Fi. A.
The Host of the West, including the Valar and the Maiar, the Vanyar, the Noldor and the Teleri, sets sail from Valinor to Middle-Earth.
They are joined then by the Men of the Three Houses (and by the Boratani, People of Bór, whose people joined Maedhros before the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.)
The Host destroys almost all the Orcs, and almost all the Balrogs are slain, and those who escaped dug themselves deep into the Earth (one of them will later awake in Moria).
Seeing his downfall, Morgoth looses his Dragons as last resort, and they manage to drive the Host of the West back.
In this moment Eärendil comes on Vingilot, and with him come the great Eagles, led by Thorondor, and they fight the Dragons in the air day and night.
Yet before the rising of the Sun Eärendil slays Ancalagon the Black, mightiest of the Dragons, and casts him down on Thangorodrim;
and the Towers of Thangorodrim are broken by his fall.
In the next day, the Host finally slays most of the Dragons (yet not all of them, such as Scatha, Smaug, and the cold-drake of the Gray Mountains who later slew Dáin I).
The pits of Angband are laid bare, and Morgoth flees once again into the deepest of them, and yet he is found, and sues for pardon, yet pardon is not granted to him;
and he is bound with the chain Angainor and taken captive.
The two Silmarils are taken from his Iron Crown by Eönwë.
Angband is destroyed to its foundations, and its slaves and captives sent free;
but so great was the wrath of the host of the West that all Beleriand was changed, and later it was drowned, and only Thargelion and Ossiriand remained of it.
Eönwë summons all the Elves to depart back to Valinor, yet not all of them agree, and first of Maedhros and Maglor, sons of Fëanor.
They also send a bid to Eönwë, asking him to give them back the freed Silmarils;
yet Eönwë rejects their claim, saying, that their Oath and the crimes thay have done because of it (The Kinslaying at Alqualondë, the Attack of Doriath and the Assault on Arvernien) had cancelled their right to have the Silmarils.
He also adds, that Maedhros and Maglor must go to Valinor, and there be judged for all their deeds, and that only by a decree of the Valar he will give them the Silmarils back.
At first Maglor wanted to surrender, but Maedhros said to him that it would be madness to fight against the Valar in their own realm, and persuades him to take the Silmarils from Eönwë.