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Īround the year 1000 of the Second Age, Sauron tried to make contact with the Elves under the name of Annatar, the "Lord of Gifts", but Gil-galad and Círdan did not trust him and rejected his proposals. He warned him that a new shadow had arisen in the East and besought him for aid.
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882 Gil-galad gave him a letter for his father, the King of Númenor, Tar-Meneldur. When Prince Aldarion of Númenor came to Middle-earth, they established friendship with the Elves. Also, some of the Sindar and many of the Nandor did not wish to live with the Noldor, who had done them a great evil, and migrated eastwards to Lothlórien or Greenwood the Great. Led by Celebrimbor, grandson of Fëanor, they founded the realm of Eregion, probably also stirred up by the finding of mithril in Khazad-dûm. But soon, there was again unrest among the Noldor, and many of them left Lindon. Many Elves, both the Sindar and the Noldor, joined him.
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Gil-galad was the last heir of the kings of the Noldor in exile, and acknowledged as High King of the Elves of the West. Gil-galad was an Elvenking by Jenny DolfenĪfter the destruction of Beleriand during the War of Wrath, Gil-galad founded a kingdom in Lindon in the far north-west of Middle-earth, roughly between the Blue Mountains and the Great Sea around the Gulf of Lhûn and the havens of Forlond, Harlond, and Mithlond were founded. He and Círdan maintained the refuge upon Balar and the small port at the Sirion estuary until the War of Wrath and the end of the First Age. When Gondolin was lost, Gil-galad received the Kingship of the Noldor. In the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Fingon, High King of the Noldor, was slain, and the crown passed to his brother Turgon in Gondolin. Yet Círdan, Gil-galad, and many other Elves could flee from death on ship and established a refuge upon the Isle of Balar and a small haven at the Mouths of Sirion. Hithlum was destroyed after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad and thus there was no power left that could withstand the enemies, and the ports at the Falas were besieged and captured by the Orcs. After the loss of Minas Tirith, the Pass of Sirion was open to Morgoth's hosts, although they were still kept at bay by the still mighty realm of Hithlum and also the power of Nargothrond. As a result, shortly before the fall of Minas Tirith by the forces of Sauron, his father sent his wife and son to Círdan at the Havens of the Falas for safekeeping. He was still an elven-child at the time of the Dagor Bragollach when Morgoth broke the Siege of Angband. Gil-galad was apparently the son of Orodreth and grandson of Angrod and Eldalótë, but there are multiple accounts about what his parentage was, NB and the place and year of his birth remain murky (see below). Defeating Sauron at the Siege of Barad-dûr along with Elendilīetween the Mountains and the Sea." ― From The Fall of Gil-galad, as translated by Bilbo BagginsĮreinion Gil-galad was the fourth and last High King of the Noldor in Middle-earth.