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Dates
Made sometime before I 126;1 destroyed at the end of the First Age
Location
The northwest of Dor-lómin, leading westward into the Cirith Ninniach
Origins
Made by craftsmen of Turgon from Nevrast
Race
Division
Outflow
A stream flowed through the Gate from the east and on into Cirith Ninniach beyond it
Pronunciation
Noldor is pronounced 'no'ldorr' ('rr' indicates that the final 'r' sound should be pronounced)
Other names

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Gate of the Noldor

Annon-in-Gelydh

Map of the Gate of the Noldor

A gateway in the mountains between northern Nevrast and Hithlum, built by the Noldor who followed Turgon in the earliest years after their Return to Middle-earth. After Turgon's departure to Gondolin, the Gate was lost, but it was rediscovered and used centuries later by Tuor in his escape from the oppressed lands of Hithlum.


Notes

1

Turgon and his people abandoned Nevrast for Gondolin in about the year I 126, so the Gate cannot have been built after that date. Turgon's craftsmen, though, had been working on the Hidden City for about seventy years before this, and it seems unlikely that they would have left that work to build the Gate. Most likely, then, is a rather earlier construction date during the first fifty years of the First Age.

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