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Here is the important information from
the First Age in under five minutes.
To keep this short, my intro and outro
will be very quick.
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for more complete telling of the history.
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let's begin our tale.
At the beginning of the First Age, after
the arrival of the sun and moon,
the elves of Fingolfin came to Beleriand
in north-western Middle Earth and
won a battle against Morgoth's forces,
while across the world Men awoke for
the first time.
Fingolfin's host met that of Fëanor,
who's new leader, Maedhros,
had been captured.
Fingon son of Fingolfin, with the help of
Thorondor king of the eagles, would
save Maedhros from Thangorodrim
(the volcanic mountains outside of
Morgoth's fortress of Angband).
To broker peace amongst the Noldor,
Maedhros surrendered the crown to his
half-uncle Fingolfin.
The respective lords of the elves would
remove across Beleriand, beginning work on
and establishing their realms to come.
The sons of Fëanor settled in the east,
Fingon and Fingolfin stayed in the north
(at Hithlum),
Finrod went on to establish Nargothrond,
and Turgon made Gondolin,
as the Noldor went to live alongside the
Sindar elves of Thingol and
Cirdan the shipwright.
After the Noldor were established in
Middle Earth, they besieged Angband
in a glorious battle; holding Morgoth's
keep under siege for centuries to come.
Yet, the Doom of the Noldor began to take
hold in these years, as Thingol found out
about the Kinslaying, drawing more
division between the Wood Elves and
the High Elves of the West.
Morgoth would create the dragons,
beginning with Glaurung the father of
dragons, then Men would come west, meeting
Finrod and then the other elves.
Their three houses of the Edain,
the houses of Hador, Beor and Haleth,
would come to live in different places in
Beleriand, working alongside the different
factions of elves as well.
Finally, the time came when Morgoth's
forces were ready to reemerge, and so
came the Battle of the Sudden Flame.
Dragons, Balrogs, orcs, trolls, and other
vile creatures came with the eruption of
Thangorodrim, driving many elves and men
back, and killing many of them as well.
High King Fingolfin went to Angband and
challenged Morgoth himself, wounding
him, but the king died in the end, and
his son Fingon inherited the
High Kingship after him.
During this battle, the man Barahir and
his company saved Finrod.
Finrod swore him and his line an oath
to aid them.
He would be called upon by Barahir's son
Beren after the man fell in love with the
maiden Lúthien in Doriath, setting forth
on a quest to reclaim a Silmaril from
the crown of Morgoth for the Wood Elven
King Thingol.
Although it cost Finrod his life, and many
conflicts would ensue between Beren,
Lúthien, and the forces of Morgoth-
including Sauron- as well as some of the
sons of Fëanor, the Silmaril was reclaimed
and given to Thingol, and the first union
of Man and Elf commenced.
In the aftermath of this, the elves and
men of the world united to push back
against Morgoth; but this became the
Battle of Unnumbered Tears instead,
where many, including High King Fingon,
perished, making his brother Turgon of
Gondolin the new High King of the Noldor.
In the wake of this battle, the child
Túrin came to live at Doriath and was
brought up by Thingol.
He and his family were cursed, and his
story caused much chaos, including the
fall of Nargothrond and the death of
Glaurung and Túrin himself.
After Túrin's death, his father Húrin
would be released by Morgoth, and he
would bring the necklace
Nauglamír to Thingol.
Thingol would employ the Dwarves of the
Blue Mountains to put the Silmaril and
the Nauglamír together- resulting in
his death, and strife between
Dwarves and Elves.
The sons of Fëanor would eventually
destroy Doriath in another Kinslaying,
attempting to reclaim the Silmaril of
their father.
Around the same time, Túrin's cousin Tuor
had been on a journey of his own from
the god Ulmo, who tasked him with
warning High King Turgon of the coming
end of Gondolin, and so he came there;
but the elf king would not heed
this warning.
Tuor married Turgon's daughter Idril,
and they produced a son named Eärendil.
Gondolin fell by the treachery of Idril's
cousin Maeglin, and Turgon was slain with
many of his people.
The High Kingship then fell to Gil-Galad,
his kinsman.
With the coming of Thingol's Silmaril to
the Havens by Elwing, a third Kinslaying
was launched by the sons of Fëanor, which
saw the Silmaril taken to Valinor by the
married Eärendil and Elwing.
This voyage resulted in the Valar aiding
the free peoples against Morgoth, and
creating the choice of the Half-Elves.
The Valar made Eärendil a star with
the Silmaril, and the people of the Valar
made war on Morgoth in Beleriand;
the War of Wrath, ending with the downfall
of Morgoth and many of his
most evil works.
Beleriand, having suffered too much
damage from this war,
sank beneath the sea.
Many important elves went east
into Middle Earth.
The faithful men of Beleriand were given
the island of Numenor.
The sons of Eärendil and Elwing,
Elrond and Elros, became leaders of
Elves and Men respectively, and
the Silmarils found their way into the
sky, earth, and seas, with the sons
of Fëanor ending their part in the story.
Thus ended the First Age of Middle Earth.
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