'They have passed over Sea,' said Galadriel, 'with almost all fair things else.

'What has become of the skill of the Eldar?'ДЄnd Celebrimbor said: 'Where now is the Stone of EГ¤rendil? And Enerdhil who made it is gone.' 'I would have trees and grass about me that do not die вЂ“ here in the land that is mine,' she answered. What wrong did the golden house of Finarfin do that I should ask the pardon of the Valar, or be content with an isle in the sea whose native land was Aman the Blessed? Here I am mightier.' 'Angrod is gone, and Aegnor is gone, and Felagund is no more. 'How otherwise can it be for the Eldar, if they cling to Middle-earth?' said Celebrimbor. Long ago, ere Sauron deluded the smiths of Eregion, Galadriel came there, and she said to Celebrimbor, the chief of the Elven-smiths: 'I am grieved in Middle-earth, for leaves fall and flowers fade that I have loved, so that the land of my dwelling is filled with regret that no Spring can redress.' We have potential for the show - in addition to NГєmenГіrean court intrigue, as for instance between Ancalime and her rival cousin-claimant to the throne Soronto, for which reason (to cement her accession to the throne) she has a political marriage with Hallacar which proves disastrousВ -В to explore intra-Elvish politics in Eregion, in the form of the rebellion and coup by Celebrimbor's MГrdain (Brotherhood of Jewel Smiths), as outlined in plot-points in Unfinished Tales: To my mind, there is a lot of compelling stuff in there practically waiting to be further embellished by some skilled dramatists. The Second Age is the exemplar of this par excellence and I feel that it provides the perfect fodder for a creative team with a desire to keep their story grounded within certain defined narrative parameters/plot-points straight from Tolkien, whilst also having a relatively free-hand to come up with their own material that doesn't contradict the canonical outline. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole,В and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.' I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. ' I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story. They were simply a fourth Edainic tribe/house that settled in NГєmenor in Tolkien's later conception, albeit with very pronounced racial/ethnic differences in physiognomy from your average NГєmenГіrean. Given they were of his 'household' and in a close enough capacity or status to viably try to impress upon his father (the former King Tar-Meneldur who had abdicated the sceptre) and his wife Erendis to 'prevail' upon him, those particular DrГєedainВ must have occupied a rather high status. (Of Dwarves and Men, published in History of Middle-earth 12) But they did not succeed, since neither his father nor his wife could prevail on him to change his courses In a copy of this written and preserved in Gondor there is a note by the scribe on a passage in which the DrГєedain in the household of King Aldarion the Mariner are mentioned: it relates that the DrГєedain, who were ever noted for their strange foresight, were disturbed to hear of his voyages, foreboding that evil would come of them, and begged him to go no more. What happened to them later is only recorded in one of the few legends that survived the Downfall, the story of the first sailings of the NГєmenГіreans back to Middle-earth, known as The Mariner's Wife. In the annals of NГєmenor it is said that this remnant was permitted to sail over sea with the Atani, and in the peace of the new land throve and increased again, but took no more part in war, for they dreaded the sea.

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