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However, the Noldor and their allies possessed insufficient force to assault Angband directly. Fingon, leading a force of horse-borne archers, was able to drive the dragon back to Angband, winning great praise.Īfterwards, the Noldor grew strong, and sorties from Angband posed no significant threat. However, the dragon was not yet fully grown, and his armour was still vulnerable. Immediately, the greater part of the Elven forces were driven back, and Lake Helevorn was defiled. In one of these attacks, the first dragon, Glaurung, attacked. The siege was incomplete, as Morgoth was still capable of sending out forces through secret passages from the towers of Thangorodrim to harass the Elves and to spy out Beleriand. The Long Peace lasted hundreds of years, during which time Men arrived over the Blue Mountains and the skill and prowess of the Noldor reached its peak.įingolfin and Fingon kept watch from Hithlum Finrod and Orodreth from Tol Sirion Angrod and Aegnor from Dorthonion and the sons of Fëanor from the eastern marches. For the most part, it was a time of plenitude, peace and happiness for Elves and Men. Angband was a stronghold that was built beneath the Iron Mountains, and under the three gigantic volcanoes of Thrangorodrim, the largest mountains in Middle-earth at the time.
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It was destroyed at the War of Wrath at the end of the First Age. Tolkien's Middle-earth fictional universe was the siege of the Noldor around the fortress of Morgoth in the early centuries of the Years of the Sun, which began following the Dagor Aglareb. Angband, also known as the Iron Prison, was Melkor's 2nd (and last) fortress of Middle-earth. The Siege of Angband or "The Long Peace" in J.