How it would get to Mirkwood is then a different question. In that case, though, you'd expect it to be given to its rightful owner, which would presumably be Gil-galad, or maybe Elrond or Galadriel, as Fingolfin's only surviving relatives in Middle-earth. This isn't inherently unlikely since it's basically what happened to Glamdring, King Turgon's sword.Īllternatively, maybe the sword was salvaged from the ruins of Angband by one of Eönwë's army. Then it was lost for an Age of the world. There are two alternative ways Ringil might have survived:Ī) When Morgoth killed Fingolfin, his sword was salvaged and kept, either in Angband's treasure rooms or in the hands of one of Morgoth's servants.įrom there, you could assume that it was looted and stolen during the War of Wrath, maybe by one of the 'Boldog' immortal Orcs (Maiar in Orc-form) or even something more unlikely such as a Balrog or Dragon, and carried east into the remote parts of Middle-earth in an effort to escape the Valar. ![]() What would make for the coolest and most epic reemergence of pieces of First Age like this? How might we take an Elf of Mirkwood, give unto her a sword that glitters like ice, once held by the High King of the Noldor, and make it really work? I'm sure it can be done, I just want to hear some of your thoughts. Maybe Cirdan found it and has kept it safe, but then that also makes it tricky trying to get it into a protagonist's hands.Ĭould her ship have been blown astray by a terrible storm, and wind up ashore one of the Western Isles, where Fingolfin's Cairn survives, somehow having been moved during the War of Wrath? Would some sort of dream meeting in a sunken hall with the ghost of an ancient king who bequeaths the blade be more far-fetched? It could have washed ashore somewhere on the westernmost parts of Middle-earth, but what all is over there? What would even bring a party there? Say I want this character to find and wield Ringil against the Enemy once more (this time in the form of Sauron and his servants). Her hair is reddish-brown, and she displays some traits and tendencies more akin to the Noldor of old than purely of her Silvan kin. And the character to wield it is ostensibly an Elf of Mirkwood, but is to be distantly related to Fingolfin's people. This could be for a fanfic, for a character in a TOR game, whatever. Īlso, its location had once been north of the Iron Mountains rather than within them.Okay, say for whatever reason I want Fingolfin's sword, Ringil, to reappear in the Third Age. Earlier versions of the legendariumĮarlier texts referred to Utumno as the Fortress of the North or Utumna. Utumno is Quenya word for "Underworld", also known as Udûn ( Sindarin for 'Hell'). Amidst the sounding of the trumpets, the Valar came out of the west, and after the Battle of the Powers Utumno was besieged and destroyed in YT 1099, and Melkor was chained for about three thousand years. Knowing that Melkor would continue to be a blight upon the world, the Valar decided to protect the Elves by ending his power in the north. Taking advantage of the new arrivals, Melkor captured some of them and thus, the hideous race of Orcs was bred. Utumno endured for millennia well into the early years of the Elves at Cuiviénen during the Years of the Trees. ![]() Soon afterwards, Melkor and his servants waged his war and struck down the lamps, ruining the world, and forcing the Valar to move further west to the continent of Aman. Cruel spirits, phantoms, wraiths, and evil demons stalked the halls of Utumno and haunted the surrounding forests.įrom Utumno, Melkor poisoned and interfered with all the Valar's work done during the Spring of Arda. Creatures were also bred here such as trolls, "made in mockery of the Ents" as stated by Treebeard. Here Melkor gathered to him all the evil powers of the World. The fortress was constructed here in the Iron Mountains (over one thousand miles from the later location of Angband) where the light of the lamps did not reach. Historyĭuring the time of the Lamps, before the First Age, Melkor first dug the great Pits of Utumno deep beneath the mountains of the North. Through time, much of the subterranean domain had been cast from obsidian, fire, and ice beneath it. ![]() Utumno was carved very deep into the flesh of the Earth by Melkor himself.
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