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Idril Celebrindal | Women of Arda - Ladies of the Noldor | Part 5 of 6

Idril was first named Itarillë when she was born in Valinor sometime before Y.T . 1500. Later, she would take the Sindarin version of her name and also be called Celebrindal, or Silver Foot, for her practice of walking unshod on the grass after the chill of the Helcaraxë and bathing her feet in the fountains of Gondolin. She was the only child of Turukáno, son of Ñolofinwë Arcáno, and Elenwë of the Vanyar. As her grandfather was the second son of King Finwë of the Noldor, she was counted amongst the many princesses of the House of Finwë. She was renowned for her wisdom and foresight.

Itarillë went with her parents into exile and travelled with her grandfather's host across the treacherous Helcaraxë. At one point, both she and her mother fell through the ice and into the water. Her father risked his life to save them, but only Itarillë was retrieved. Upon reaching Middle Earth, her family took Sindarin names, with her father becoming Turgon and she becoming Idril. She dwelt with her father in Vinyamar, while her grandfather - now Fingolfin - ruled as High King, before helping Turgon to establish the city of Gondolin sometime between F.A 64 and F.A 116. Sometime after that, the craftsman Enerdhil fashioned a famous gem known as the Elessar, which he gave to Idril to wear. In F.A 400, her aunt Aredhel, who had been lost for years, returned to the hidden kingdom with her son, Maeglin. Idril was the only one who could perceive her cousin’s mind and saw that he loved her despite their close kinship. She forever mistrusted him.

Following the deaths of her grandfather and uncle Fingon, the kingship passed to Idril’s father in F.A 472 . Turgon sent ships to the West, hoping to ask the Valar for aid against Morgoth, but the only elf to return was Voronwë. With him came a mortal, Tuor son of Huor, who bore arms Turgon had left in Vinyamar at the behest of the vala Ulmo. He delivered Ulmo’s warning to the king and was welcomed into his trust and counsel. During this time, Idril came to love Tuor and they married seven years later, marking the second union between the elves and the Edain. Idril and Tuor’s son, Eärendil, was born in F.A 503. In the custom of the Noldor in Valinor, Idril also gave her son the mother-name Ardamíre (Mír n’Ardhon in Sindarin), meaning “jewel of the world” which foretold his destiny.

Years later, when Morgoth became even more determined to uncover the location of Gondolin, Idril prepared a secret way as a means of escape in the even the city was attacked. She ensured that this work was not known to Maeglin, who eventually betrayed Gondolin to Morgoth. In F.A 510 the city was besieged and eventually fell, with Turgon perishing. Idril and Tuor led the survivors through the secret passage and out to the Havens of Sirion. At the Havens of Sirion the people of Gondolin met other refugees from Doriath, including the daughter of King Dior, Elwing. Idril’s son married Elwing in F.A 525 and was made lord of the havens. As Tuor grew older, he built the ship Eärrámë and together he and Idril sailed to the West. Before leaving, Idril entrusted the elf stone to Eärendil. When they arrived in Valinor, Tuor was accepted as one of the elves, and they lived there until the end of Arda.

Eärendil was one of the leaders of the War of Wrath and afterwards sailed across the heavens with the silmaril that Elwing gave him upon his brow. At night, he can be seen as the evenstar. His sons, Idril’s grandsons, were left in Middle Earth. The elessar Enderdhil made for Idril may be the elfstone given to Aragorn by Galadriel in the Third Age, but that is not know for certain. How Turgon’s sword, Glamdring, was eventually discovered in a troll hole is also unknown, nor whether it was used by the king in the fall of Gondolin. Some speculate that Idril carried it away from the siege before it was lost.

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