Ellesar

Stone of Eärendil.

Elfstone.

Green stone of Fëanor.

The green gem set in a brooch of silver formed as a uprising eagle that Aragorn II kept his cape together with. There a three slightly different tales, besides the story of the Green stone of Fëanor, of the origin of the gem.

The Green Stone of Fëanor would have been made in Aman in the Valian Years of the Trees between 1169 -1496.

First Ellesar was made in the First age between the years 116 - 500.

Second Ellesar was made in the Second age between the years 750-1500.

1, 2 ,3 Age.

The Green stone of Fëanor. After the landing in Middle-Earth at Lammoth and before he died Fëanor gave his son Maedhros a green stone. This stone Maedhros later gave to Fingon. These words belongs to later ponderings of J.R.R.Tolkien of the origin of the Ellesar but it was not finished or fully incorporated and abandoned. But there was no doubt it was an early reference to the Ellesar.

1.) There was in Gondolin a jewel-smith named Enerdhil, the greatest in this craft after Fëanor had died. Enerdhil made a green stone where the light of the Sun was imprisoned and that the hands of one who held it brought all that they touched healing from hurt. Enerdhil gave this jewel to Idril and with her it was saved from the burning of Gondolin. Idril gave it to her son Eärendil and with him it disappeared out of the world. With the grace of the Valar, Olorin ( Gandalf ) brought it back as a gift from Yavanna and he gave it to Galadriel for her; for at least a while; to amend the fading of all the fair things in Middle-earth and to give it to one who should come and receive it and his name should be Ellesar. Galadriel passed the Ellesar over to her daughter Celebrían and from her it came to Arwen and she then gave it back to Galadriel asking her to give it to Aragorn II. who was the one, according to the prediction of the Powers, to be the Ellesar.

2.) The second story tells that it was Enerdhil, who created the Elfstone and Enerdhil was master and a good friend of Celebrimbor. But the Elfstone was not brought back by Gandalf as a gift from Yavanna. Instead Galadriel, in the Second age while the realm of Eregion existed but before the War of Elves and Sauron, went to Eregion and spoke with Celebrimbor about her grief of the fading of middle-earth and her realm.

Celebrimbor asked Galadriel what she would like of him and she asked him to create a second Elfstone for the preservation of the lands. Celebrimbor knew he was not as skilled as Enerdhil had been but he had great love for Galadriel and despite his doubts of his own capability he consented to try make one even he knew he was not able to contest or even reach the same potency in the stone as Enerdhil did with the first. Celebrimbor took upon him the task and he made a second stone It was not, as he had known, as potent as the first, mainly due to the power of the shadow that had been laid upon the world, the light of the Sun had been diminished through the ages due to the evil that had been loose and the time that had passed but none the less the new stone held great healing powers. The gem he gave to Galadriel and it came to Aragorn as described in the first story.

3.) The third, and possibly most reliable story, tells that it was Celebrimbor and not a smith named Enerdhil, who created both the Elfstones. The great jewel-smith of Gondolin was indeed Celebrimbor and he made the first Ellesar and it was he who gave it to Idril and it passed out of Middle-earth with Eärendil and it newer came back but Galadriel, in the Second age while the realm of Eregion existed but before the War of Elves and Sauron, went to Eregion and spoke with Celebrimbor about her grief of the fading of middle-earth and her realm. Celebrimbor asked Galadriel what she would like of him and she asked him to create a second Elfstone for the preservation of the lands. Celebrimbor who had great love for Galadriel took upon him the task and made a second stone. This was not as potent as the first mainly to the power and shadow that had been laid upon the world since Morgoth, the light of the Sun had been diminished through the ages due to the evil that had been loose and the time that had passed but none the less the new stone held great healing powers. This third story tells how the Ellesar was set in a brooch of silver formed as an uprising eagle, just as it is told it looked in the Lord of the Rings, where as none of the others has this implemented and thus this third scheme seems to be the last and most correct of the tales.

Related links.: Battles.: Fall of Gondolin. War of Elves and Sauron. Encyc.: The Ellesar.