Vingilot
Cirdan return to Arvernien at Earendil's request
The building of the ship Vingilot commences
Often I found Elwing in that time looking out the casement window down at the shipyard. Now heavy with child she watched as her husband and the shipwrights built the vessel that would carry Earendil away from her and their children. She turned as she heard me approach. I had learnt to walk quietly in my years living amongst the elves; however I could never attain the silence of their foot falls.
"He will leave, won't he Eruanna?" she said half asking half stating. "He will leave, and none shall see him again just like his parents."
"Elwing, do you really want me to tell you this?" I asked. The memories were quite faded now, full of holes and foggy. Something's were as clear as the day I had first read the books however. The fate of Earendil and Elwing was one thing I had not forgotten. I hoped that Elwing wouldn't demand that I give her information as her mother-in-law had. I could not truthfully say that I could not tell her of what would happen in the future for I did know and it wasn't pretty.
Elwing's features softened. "I do not expect you to answer. I know that you feel that you can't tell us what you know. Just tell me one thing; will my twins escape the fate that my bothers endured?"
"Yes, from what I remember and that is little, your children will carry on the line of the peredhil with honour."
Birth of Elrond and Elros
Earendil sails
Elwin pines, often twins are left with Eruanna and Lailitha, who act at nursemaid and tutor to the children
Laiqualasse returns to Arvernien at Elwing's request
Laiqualasse feels the doom that he felt upon arriving in Sirion approach, he warns Elwing