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Sindar (through his father) and Noldor (though his mother)
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my'glin (with the first syllable pronounced just as the English word 'my')
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Maeglin

The betrayer of Gondolin

Eöl
Aredhel
Maeglin

The son of Eöl and Aredhel Ar-Feiniel; he escaped his father's halls in Nan Elmoth with his mother, and came with her to Gondolin. Many years later, he was captured by the spies of Morgoth and betrayed the city.


Notes

1

The year of Maeglin's birth is taken from The Grey Annals in The War of the Jewels, volume XI of The History of Middle-earth.

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