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Eöl left Doriath soon before the first rising of the Sun; he died in I 400
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Eöl's house was in the depths of the forest of Nan Elmoth; he was later travelled to Gondolin, where he was slain
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Dark Elf

A title of Eöl

When Melian set her Girdle around the land of Doriath, Thingol's kinsman Eöl left that land, and dwelt instead in the forest of Nan Elmoth. Living under the dark shadows of that ancient forest, and preferring the night to the day, he came to be widely known as the Dark Elf.

Eöl's epithet was no doubt influenced by the fact that the Sindarin Elves to whom he belonged were of the Moriquendi, the Dark Elves who had never seen the light of the Two Trees of Valinor.


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