First Age 456
From Tolkien Gateway
- Death of Fingolfin in single combat with Morgoth. Thorondor bears Fingolfin's body away and he is buried by his son Turgon in a cairn overlooking Gondolin.[1][2]
- Death of Gundor.[3]
- Emeldir, wife of Barahir, leads their people out of Dorthonion to Brethil.[4] Some, including Morwen and Rían, continue on to Dor-lómin.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Morgoth's Ring, "Part Four. Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth: Notes [on 'The Debate of Finrod and Andreth']", Note 6
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Two. The Later Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Coming of Men into the West (Chapter 14)", p. 234
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "The Grey Annals": §159, p. 56
