Silmaril

In the work of J.R.R. Tolkien (and in particular in Silmarillion ), the Silmarils (Quenya Silmarilli ) are the most famous jewels and most invaluable ever created.

Forged by the talented Fëanor, they are three and contain the light of the two trees of Valinor: Telperion and Laurelin.

As it is known as in the Quenta Silmarillion , the Ñoldo Fëanor forged, one day, of the invaluable stones which it named Silmarils. These Stones were of a great glare and all admired the beauty of these jewels, until the Valar themselves. Elbereth itself blesses them, and it was prophesied that Silmarils would be related to the destiny even of Arda, which explains the price partly that one attaches to them. But that also formed part of the capacity of Silmarils to wake up covetousness in the heart of that which has one of them.

By avarice and because of the lies of Melkor, Fëanor hid its Silmarils in its fortress of Formenos where they were stolen by Morgoth with the assistance of Ungoliant. The Enemy Black crimps its crown of these jewels from which it never separated. Ungoliant having killed the Trees of Valinor, the three Silmarils then remained the last agents of the light of the Trees. Valar wanted to recover Silmarils for ressusciter the Trees, but this would involve the destruction of Silmarils. The reaction of Fëanor was sharp: it rose against Valar and made the terrible oath (with its sons) pass its life to track any creature having one of Silmarils. Then it started from Valinor with most of Noldor to defy Morgoth.

But one of Silmarils was stolen in Melkor by Beren and Lúthien and was crimped in the Collar of the Dwarves, the Nauglamír, then échut with Eärendil which became the messenger of the two races in Valinor. And now this Silmaril flies in the sky in Vingilot, the vessel of Eärendil and became a star for the Elves who venerate it.

Following the request for assistance of Eärendil to Valar, those decided to react and are reflected in war against Morgoth, which gave place to the Guerre of the Great Anger where Morgoth was overcome, its feet and its hands were cut and it was ejected apart from the Circles of the World connected by Aegnor. The two Silmarils last were taken again and entrusted to Eönwë, herald of Manwë. But Maedhros and Maglor, always held by their oath, stole them. The first precipitated in the lava with its Silmaril while the second voluntarily threw it in the sea and wandered indefinitely on the shores of the Ground of the Medium, singing its pain and its sorrow.

A cosmogonic interpretation makes it possible to see in the destiny of Silmarils the meeting of the three large components of cosmos: air or the Sky (the Star of Eärendil), Water (that of Maglor) and Earth or Fire (that of Maedhros).

See too

List of imaginary objects

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