Nauglamír
This great Dwarven necklace of gold is incredibly costly, set with many precious and heavy gems brought from Valinor. It was made for Finrod by the Dwarves of Ered Luin in the Firs...
This great Dwarven necklace of gold is incredibly costly, set with many precious and heavy gems brought from Valinor. It was made for Finrod by the Dwarves of Ered Luin in the Firs...
This great Dwarven necklace of gold is incredibly costly, set with many precious and heavy gems brought from Valinor. It was made for Finrod by the Dwarves of Ered Luin in the First Age and was considered the finest work of art of that age. It later became a part of Elwë's doom; when he demanded a Silmaril from Beren as Lúthien's bride-price, his fate was sealed. He set the Silmaril in the Nauglamír, a present he had received from Hurin (who had taken it from the hoard of Glaurung), and displayed it before those with less resistance to its beauty than he. The Dwarves coveted the Silmaril and slew him for it. It was recovered and returned to Lúthien, but was again stolen during the sack of Menegroth. Beren recovered it for his wife, and during the years that Lúthien wore the Nauglamír, no living thing in Middle-Earth could lay claim to greater beauty and grace than she. It passed from her to Dior, then Elwing, who took it to Aman on the journey with Eärendil. Upon his ascension to the heavens, the Silmaril shared in Eärendil's glory, shining upon his brow as a star. Although the Nauglamír's fate is obscured, perhaps it too journeys across the sky.