Captured from the vaults of Formenos by Morgoth, and held by him in Angband until late in the First Age; later carried across the Sea and borne into the sky from Valinor
The timeline for this entry shows the period during which the Great Jewel was held in Middle-earth. It was brought out of Aman by Morgoth about fifty years before the first rising of the Sun, and returned there by Eärendil in the late First Age. It still survives as the Star of Eärendil in the West.