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Annals of the WotJ

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Players,

Please report your major events here to be recorded in Elemir's tale of years.


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These are the events of The War of the Jewels as they were recorded by Elemir of Brithombar.​

Notes on the reckoning of the Annals​

YT - Years of the Trees (Each YT is very roughly equal to ten YS)

YS - Years of the Sun

WR - Year of Sun in WotJ Reckoning.

YT 1250​

Dwarves enter Beleriand and meet the Sindar.

YT 1300 - 1350​

Menegroth built.

YT 1330​

Evil creatures entered Beleriand. Arming of the Sindar by Naugrim, and by the teachings of the Naugrim. Creatures driven off.

YT 1350​

Denethor leads his Green-elves into Beleriand.

YT 1495
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Morgoth returns to Middle-earth. His cry in battle with Ungoliant heard throughout Beleriand. Ungoliant comes to Doriath but Melian shuts her out. Ungoliant then dwells between Doriath and Dorthonion. The area becomes Ered Gorgoroth 'Mountains of Terror'. Morgoth returns to Angband.

YT 1497​

Morgoth attacks Beleriand. Orcs come down on both sides of Thingol, and being cut off from Cirdan he got the aid of Denethor. Eventually victory is won over the eastern host with the aid of the Green-elves and Naugrim, but Lord Denethor fell and the Green-elves took no more kings after this. Thingol withdrew his people into the borders of Doriath and Melian put up her Girdle. In this year Feanor reaches Middle-earth, and there is Dagor-nuin-Giliath 'Battle Under the Stars'. Feanor's death. Maedhros taken by Morgoth.

YT 1498​

Maedhros hanged from a precipice on Thangorodrim. No one couuld find him so the Noldor withdrew back to Hithlum.

YT 1500​

Host of Fingolfin reaches Middle-earth.

YS 1​

The first Moon rises in the west at the blowing of Fingolfin's trumpets as they began the march into Middle-earth.

YS 2​

Fingolfin sets up camp at lake Mithrim. The Feanorians are camped on the other shore, ashamed.

YS 5​

To heal the fued between the hosts of Fingolfin and of Feanor, Fingon set out and rescued Maedhros from Thangorodrim.

YS 6​

House of Finarfin visits Thingol. Noldor given permission to dwell in certain areas.

YS 20​

Mereth Aderthad 'Feast of Reuiniting', many attend from far and wide, including some Green-elves from Ossiriand.

YS 50​

Ulmo sends dreams to Finrod and Turgon as they sleep. Both wake with ideas for places of refuge.

YS 52​

Finrod begins delving the caves of Nargothrond with the aid of the Dwarves.

YS 53​

Ulmo appears to Turgon, and shows him Tumladen in the encircling mountains.

YS 60​

The Third Battle, Dagor Aglareb, the 'Glorious Battle'. Earthquakes started in the north and fire spewed from Thangorodrim. Orcs came down but they were driven out onto Ardgalan and slaughtered to the last orc in sight of Angband. Though great victory it was a warning to the Noldor and they strengthened their watch and established the Siege of Angband.

YS 64​

Turgon shows the masons and other skilled people to Tumladen where they begin the building of Gondolin in the likeness of Tirion on Tuna.

YS 65/WR 1​

Notes on the opening of WotJ​


The caves of Nargothornd are far from completed.

Finrod's brothers Aegnor and Angrod hold Dorthonion.

Hithlum is ruled by Fingolfin, with his son Fingon in Dor-lomin. Their people like to go out riding on the planes with the horses given to them by Maedhros.

Doriath is guarded and protected by the Girdle of Melian. King Thingol does not know about the Kinslaying yet, but Cirdan is about to hear it.

Gondolin is very early in the building.

The sons of Feanor, with many people, are scattered throughout eastern Beleriand. These are also riders. Other elven lords go hunting in the land of Amrod and Amras.

Caranthir will come upon Dwarves eventually and relations begin between them and Noldor (they appearantly only had earlier contact with Finrod's Noldor in Western Beleriand, then went back to their Mansions).

Cirdan's folk at the havens, with the aid of Finrod's people fortify Eglarest and Brithombar, and they are building the tower of Barad Nimras to keep watch over the sea. Finrod's people also aid them in ship-building.

It will be some time before Finrod discovers Men.
 
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Nom, would melkor be so kind as to send a orc raid into the north of hithlum, nothing major.
Oh and a few trolls would be great, things need to be livend up.
 

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