Draugluin-(Valar)
Aug. 28, 2002
Literally, the "Lonely Isle," Tol Eressea was home to
myriad groups of Elves, mainly the Teleri. The isle was used to ferry
the Elves from Middle-Earth to Aman by Ulmo and Osse when the Elves
were summoned by the Valar to come to Valinor after their awakening in
Cuivienen. The Teleri, the last group to be taken to Aman, begged Ulmo
to stop their voyage. Ulmo did so, leaving the isle set in the Bay of
Eldamar off Aman's coast. There the Teleri, mariners by heart, lived
for many years within sight of the light of Valinor which flowed
through the Calacirya. After living there for quite a long time, they
desired to live fully in the light of Valinor and to be reunited with
their Elven kin who had gone to Valinor long before. Eventually, the
Teleri built ships with the help of Osse and came at last to the shores
of Aman where they dwelt in Alqualonde on the Bay of Eldamar. Tol
Eressea sat deserted until the end of the First Age, when the refugee
Elves of the Sinking of Beleriand made their home there in
reconciliation with the Valar. Tol Eressea was impossible for all but
the Elves to find, as it was protected by the Enchanted Isles, and
later sundered along with Aman from Middle-Earth, but the tower of
Avallone upon Eressea could still be seen by those Numenoreans with
sharp eyes from the Meneltarma, or later after the destruction of
Numenor it could be seen with the Palantir of Elendil that sat in the
towers of Emyn Beraid.
Reference - The Silmarillion
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