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by Numellote

SOURCE: ''THE LORD OF THE RINGS''
''THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING''

Chapter: ''Many Meetings''

Page: 242 ­ Story telling, singing

''Frodo found himself walking with Gandalf. ''This is the Hall of Fire'', said the wizard. ''Here you will hear many songs and tales- if you can keep awake. But except on high days it usually stands empty and quiet, and people come here who wish for peace, and thought. There is always a fire here, all the year round, but there is little other light.''

Page: 250

''It is difficult to keep awake here, until you you get used to it,'' said Bilbo. ''Not that hobbits would ever acquire quite the elvish appetite for music and poetry and tales. They seem to like them as much as food, or more. They will be going on for a long time yet.''

Chapter: ''The Ring Goes South''

Page: 290

''In those last days the hobbits sat together in the evening in the Hall of Fire, and there among many tales they heard told in full the Lay of Beren and Lúthien and the minning of the Great JewelŠ''

SOURCE: ''THE SILMARILLION''

Chapter: ''Of the Coming of the Elves''

Page: 52 (in ME) - Lore

''Those were the Nandor, and they became a people apart, unlike their kin, save that they loved water, and dwelt most beside falls and running streams. Greater knowledge they had of living things, tree and herb, bird and beast, than all other Elves.''

Chapter: ''Of Eldamar and the princes of the Eldalië''

Page: 57 ­ singing

(Of Teleri) ''Long they remained by the coasts of the western sea, and Ossë and Uinen came to them and befriended them; and Ossë instructed them, sitting upon a rock near to the margin of the land, and of him they learned all manner of sea-lore and sea-music. Thus it came to be that the Teleri, who were from the beginning lovers of water, and the fairest singers of all the Elves, were after enamoured of the seas, and their songs were filled with the sound of waves upon the shore.''

Page: 59 (in Valinor) - Lore

''Manwë and Varda loved most the Vanyar, the Fair Elves; but the Noldor were beloved by Aulë, and he and his people came often among them. Great became their knowledge and their skill; yet even greater was their thirst fore more knowledge, and in many things soon surpassed their teachers.''

Page: 60 ­ Building, gems

(Of Noldor) '' And it came to pass that the masons of the house of Finwë, quarrying in the hills after stone (for they delighted in the building of high towers), first discovered the earth-gems, and brought them forth in countless myriads; and they devise tools for the cutting and shaping of gems, and carved them in many forms. They hoarded them not, butt gave them freely, and by their labour enriched all Valinor.''

Page: 60 ­ Hunting

(Of Amrod and Amras) '' In later days they were great hunters in the woods of Middle-earth; and a hunter was also Celegorm, who in Valinor was a friend of Oromë, and often followed the Vala's horn.''

Pages: 60, 61 ­ Hunting, riding.

(Of Aredhel) ''She was younger in the years of the Eldar than her brothers; and when she was grown to full stature and beauty she was tall and strong, and loved much to ride and hunt in the forests.''

Page: 61 ­ Ship building, sailing, walking. (In V)

(Of Teleri) ''Therefore Ulmo, submitting to the will of the Valar, sent to them Ossë, their friend, and he though grieving taught them the craft of ship-buildingŠ''

''Š.but most of all they sailed in their swift ships on the water of the Bay of Elvenhome, or walked in the waves upon the shore with their hair gleaming in the light beyond the hill.''

Page: 62 ­ Journeys

''But the memory of Middle-earth under the stars remained in the hearts of the Noldor, and they abode in the Calacirya, and in the hills and valleys within sound of the western sea; and though many of them went often about the land of the Valar, making far journeys in search of the secrets of land and water and all living things, Š.''

''Fëanor and his sons abode seldom in one place for long, but traveled far and wide upon the confines of Valinor, going even to the borders of the Dark and the cold shores of the Outer Sea, seeking unknown.''

Page: 62 ­ Lore

''Often they were guests in the halls of Aulë; but Celegorm went rather to the house of Oromë, and there he got great knowledge of birds and beasts, and all their tongues he knew.''

Chapter: ''Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor''

Page: 63 ­ lore, skill

''In those days the Eldar became full-grown in stature of body and of mind, and the Noldor advanced ever in skills and knowledge, and the long years were filled with their joyful labours, in which many new things fair and wonderful were devised. Than it was that the Noldor first bethought them of letters, and Rúmil of Tirion was the name of loremaster who first achieved fitting signs for the recording of speech and song, some for graving upon metal or stone, others for drawing with brush or with pen.''

Page: 63 ­ Needlework, weaving

''Míriel was the name of his mother, who was called Serindë, because of her surpassing skill in weaving and needlework; for her hands were more skilled to fineness than any hands even among the Noldor.''

Page: 64 ­ Skill

''He became of all the Noldor then or after, the most subtle in mind and the most skilled in hand. In his youth, bettering the work of Rúmil, he devised those letters which bear his name, and which the Eldar used ever after, and he it was who, first of the Noldor, discovered new gems greater and brighter than those of the Earth might be made with skill.''

Chapter: ''Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor''

Page: 68 ­ skill, knowledge

''Then he began a long and secret labour, and he summoned all his lore, and his power, and his subtle skill; and at he end of all he made the Silmarils.''

Chapter: ''Of the Darkening of Valinor''
Page: 78 ­ feast (In V)

''Therefore Yavanna set times for the flowering and the ripening of all things that grew in Valinor, and at each first gathering of fruits Manwë made a high feast for the praising of Eru, when all the peoples poured forth their joy in music and song upon Taniquetil.''

Chapter: ''Of the Return of the Noldor''
Page: 128 ­ feasts

''When twenty years of the Sun had passed, Fingolfin king of the Noldor made a great feastŠ..''
''The joy of that feast was long remembered in later days of sorrow; and it was called Mereth Aderthad, The Feast of Reuniting.''

Page: 133 ­ skill, poetry, books

''Behind the guard of their armies in the north the Noldor built their dwellings and their towers, and many fair things they made in those days, and poems and histories and books of lore.''
''But the Sindar had fairer voices and were more skilled in musicŠ''

Chapter: ''Oh the Noldor in Beleriand''

Page: 150 ­ feast

''It came to pass that Nargothrond was full-wrought (and yet Turgon still dwelt in the halls of Vinyamar), and the sons of Finarfin were gathered there to a feast; and Galadriel came from Doriath and dwelt a while in Nargothrond.''

Chapter: ''Of Maeglin''

Page: 151 - riding, walking

''But she wearied of the guarded city of Gondolin, desiring ever the longer the more to ride again in the wild lands and to walk in the forests, as had been her wont in Valinor; and whenŠ.''

Page: 153 - wandering

''There far a while she was content, and had great joy in wandering free in the woodlands; but as the year lengthened and Celegorm did not return, she became restless again, and took to riding alone ever further abroad, seeking for new paths and untrodden glades.''

Chapter: ''Of the Coming of the Men in the West''

Page: 162 ­ hunting

''When three hundred years and more were gone since the Noldor came to Beleriand, in the days of the Long Peace, Finrod Felagund lord of Nargothrond journeyed east of Sirion and went hunting with Maglor and Maedhros, sons of Fëanor.''

Page: 163 ­ art of music

''Then he went among sleeping people, and sat beside their dying fire where non kept watch, and he took up a rude harp which Bëor had laid aside, and he played music upon it such as the ears of Men had not heard, for they had as yet no teachers in the art, save only the Dark Elves in the wild lands.''

Chapter: ''Of Beren and Lúthien''

Page: 193 ­ singing, dancing

''There came a time near dawn on the eve of spring, and Lúthien danced upon a green hill; and suddenly she began to sing.''

Page: 216

''And it is told that in that time Daeron the Minstrel of Thingol strayed from the land, and was seen no more. He it was that made music for the dance and song of Lúthien, before Beren came to Doriath; and he had loved her, and set all his thought of her in his music. He became the greatest of all the minstrels of the Elves east of the Sea, named even before Maglor son of Fëanor.''

Chapter: ''Of Tuor and the fall of Gondolin''

Page: 289 ­ wedding feast

''Then there was made a great and joyful feast, for Tuor had won the hearts of all that people, save only of Maeglin and his secret following, and thus there came to pass the second union of Elves and Men.''

Page: 290 ­ metal smithying

''For he, as has been told, loved mining and quarrying after metals above all other craft; and he was master and leader of the Elves who worked in the mountains distant from the city, seeking after metals for their smithying of things both of peace and war.''

Page: 290 - festival

''The host of Morgoth came over the northern hills where the height was greatest and the water vigilant, and it came at night upon a time of festival, when all the people of Gondolin were upon the walls to await the rising sun, and sing their songs at its uplifting; for the morrow was the great feast that they named the Gates of Summer.''

Page: 292 ­ songs, feast

''Many are the songs that have been sung of the duel of Glorfindel with the Balrog upon a pinnacle of rock un that high place; and both fell to ruin in the abyss.''

''And they made a feast in memory of Gondolin and of the Elves that have perished there, the maidens, and maidens, and the wives, and the warriors of the King; and for Glorfindel the beloved many the songs they sang, under the willows of Nan-tathren in the waning of the year. There Tuor made a song for Eärendil his son, concerning the coming of Ulmo the Lord of Waters to the shores of Nevrast afortime; and the sea-longing woke in his heart, and in his son's also.''

Page: 294 ­ songs???

''But in after days it was sung that Tuor alone of mortal Men was numbered among the elder race, and was joined with the Noldor, whom he loved; and his fate is sundered from the fate of Men.''

Chapter: ''Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath''

Page: 295 - sea-voyage

''Yet Eärendil could not rest, and his voyages about the shores of the Hither Lands eased not his unquiet.''

Page: 298 ­ festival (In V)

''And he went up alone into the land, and came into the Calacirya, and it seemed to him empty and silent; for even as Morgoth and Ungoliant came in ages past, so now Eärendil had come at a time of festival, and wellnigh all the Elvenfolk were gone to Valinor, or were gathered in the halls of Manwë upon Taniquetil, and few were left to keep watch upon the walls of Tirion.''

Chapter: ''Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age''

Page: 342 ­ jewel-smithing

''In Eregion the craftsmen of the Gwaith-í-Mírdain, The People of the jewel-smiths, surpassed in cunning all that have ever wrought, save only Fëanor himself; and indeed greatest in skill among them was Celebrimbor, son of Curufin, who was estranged from his father and remained in Nargothrond when Celegorm and Curufin were driven forth, as is told in the Quenta Silmarillion.''