Posted: November 24, 1998 at 08:05:27: by Martin Read
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: Anguriel was stolen from Eol by Maeglin, his son, when both Maeglin and his mother Adrehel (I believe, well whoever, it was Turgon's sister anyhow) left Eol to return (for Adrehel) to Gondolin. Eol followed, tried to kill Maeglin, Adrehel died instead and Turgon had Eol thrown of a very high cliff (or something).: Can't remember the specifics, but that is in general what happened, I believe. : Maeglin must have kept the sword Anguriel until he himself was killed during the overthrow of Gondolin. Possibly Anguriel was then taken as a trophey back to Angband? Who knows! :
: Padster
An interesting thing about Maeglin is that he is the only elf to be described by Tolkien as having dark coloured eyes. All other elves are described as having grey eyes, excepting perhaps the Vanyar who's eyes were probably blue. His ancestry was Sindarin and Noldorin so where he acquired his eye colour from is not obvious. As his father Eol, a kinsman of Thingol, was called the "Dark Elf" perhaps there were Telerin elves of somewhat darker colouring than others, though all were dark haired.
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