Elendilmir fled Eregion that night, taking only his tools and a single flawed gemstone. He wandered East, passing through the gates of , where the Dwarves were too busy mining the "True-silver" to heed his warnings. He eventually settled in the woods of Greenwood the Great, centuries before it became Mirkwood.
But Elendilmir felt a coldness in the heat of the forges. One evening, he followed Annatar to the deepest chambers of the mountain-smithy. There, he saw the stranger standing before a cooling mold. Annatar wasn't singing to the metal as the Elves did; he was whispering to it in a tongue that sounded like grinding stones and guttering fires. Elendilmir fled Eregion that night, taking only his
Elendilmir was a minor smith, a craftsman who worked not with Mithril, but with copper and glass. He watched from the fringes of the Ghalad-mîrdain (the Jewel-smiths) as their lord, , grew closer to the stranger known as Annatar , the "Lord of Gifts." Annatar was beautiful, his voice like a well-tuned harp, and his knowledge of the earth’s bones was beyond anything the Elves had seen. But Elendilmir felt a coldness in the heat of the forges
To give you a detailed story set in Tolkien’s world, let’s look at a "lost" perspective from the —the era of the forging of the Rings and the rise of Númenor. The Shadow of the Gilded Star Annatar wasn't singing to the metal as the
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The year was 1600 of the Second Age. In the elven-smith kingdom of , the air always smelled of charcoal and ozone.