Silmarillion

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Silmarillion

• Chapters 13 - 24

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Important Plot Elements

• Death of Feanor Maedhros captured
• Setting up of Nargothrond and Gondolin
• Fingolfin challenges Morgoth
• Beren and Luthien
• Turin Turambar
• Tuor
• Earendil
• War of Wrath

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Tale of Turin Turambar

• Turin to be raised by Thingol
• Banishes himself for killing Saeros
• As leader of bandits, runs across Mim
• Beleg fights along side Turin
• Mim betrays him, Turin betrayed
• Beleg rescues Turin but is killed
• Beleg meets Gwindor, escaped from Morgoth

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Tale of Turin Turambar

• Gwindor takes Turin to Nargothrond
• N invaded, Turin fights Glaurung
• Held captive by Glaurungs eyes
• Doesnt rescue Finduilas
• Nienors encounter with Glaurung
• Loses her memory
• Turin rescues Nienor, renamed Niniel
• Turin and Niniel are married
• Turin kills Glaurung, Niniel/Nienor released from
  spell, kills herself, Anglachel kills Turin

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Tale of Tuor

• Talks to Ulmo
• Delivers message to King of Gondolin, Fingon
• Lives in Gondolin, falls in love with Idril
• Maeglin also in love with Idril
• Maeglin captured, gives up secret of how to get
  to Gondolin
• Glorfindel fights Balrog and dies
• Idril and Tuor have secret escape route
• Son Earendil, marries Diors daughter, Elwing

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Tale of Hurin

• Captured at 5th Battle
• Held for 28 years
• Released when Turin died
• Kills Mim
• Goes to Narthrond
• Takes the Nauglamir to Thingol

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Tale of Earendil

• Battle in MiddleEarth
• Sails to Valinor to plead for two kindred
• Takes Silmaril in Nauglamir
• With Silmaril on brow, becomes morning star
• Bilbo writes a poem about him

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Important characters

• Feanor and sons
• Melian and Thingol
• Fingon, Maedhros
• Turgon, Aredhel, Eol, Maeglin
• Finrod Felagund, Barahir
• Beren and Luthien
• Turin, Nienor, Beleg, Gwindor, and Mim
• Hurin
• Tuor
• Earendil

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Important animals

• Thorondor
• Huan
• Drauglin

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Monsters -- Evil

• Melkor
• Sauron
• Carcharoth
• Glaurung
• Balrogs Gothmog

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Important Places (secret or separate)

• Valinor
• Doriath (Melian and Thingol)
• Nargothrond (Finrod, son of Finarfin)
• Gondolin (Turgon, son of Fingolfin)
• Thangorodrim
• Tol-in-Gaurhoth
• Destruction of Elves 3 places through conflict
  with sons of Feanor or Melkor

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Important Things

• Silmarils
• Nauglamir
• Anglachel
• Angrist, knife and the Iron Crown
• Ringil, Fingolfins sword
• Berens ring and Luthiens cloak
• Dragon helm of Dor-Lomin
• Grond, hammer of underworld

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The Silmarils

• Light of the 2 trees
• Feanor makes Silmarils
• Morgoth steals Silmarils, puts them in Iron Crown
• Beren takes one Silmaril
• Carcharoth swallows it
• Huan kills Carcharoth
• Mablung gives Silmaril to Beren to Thingol

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The Silmarils

• Thingol has it put in Nauglamir
• Dwarves steal Nauglamir Silmaril
• Mablung gets killed, Beren gets NS
• Luthien wears NS
• Sent to Dior when Beren and Luthien die
• Elwing gets it, Earendil wears it
• Earendil takes it across to Tol Eressea
• Earendil sails the skies with Silmaril
• Light from Silmaril of Earendil is captured by
  Galadriel into the Phial

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The Silmarils

• War of Wrath
• Morgoth defeated, Silmarils taken back
• Maedhros and Maglor steal Silmarils and split
  them
• Maedhros into volcano, Maglor casts his into the
  sea

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Parallels 2 Brothers

• Hurin
• Marries Morwen
• Father of Turin
• Father of Nienor
• Captured by Morgoth
• Killed Mim and took Nauglamir to Thingol

• Huor
• Marries Rian
• Father to Tuor
• Killed in 5th Battle

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Parallels 2 Brothers

• Turin
• Could have married Finduilas
• Marries Niniel/Nienor instead
• Kills Glaurung

• Tuor
• Marries Idril

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Fall of the Elves

• Silmarillion traces the decline and fall of Elven
  kingdoms
• Doriath (Melian and Thingol)
• Nargothrond (Finrod, son of Finarfin)
• Gondolin (Turgon, son of Fingolfin)
• In third age only three smaller realms exist
• Rivendell (Elrond)
• Lothlorien (Galadriel)
• Mirkwood (Legolas father)