Those Elves known as the Calaquendi, who had looked on the light of the Two Trees of Valinor before their Darkening. These were the Vanyar, the Noldor and that part of the Teleri that had travelled West from Middle-earth. Elu Thingol was also considered an Elf of the Light, because although he never completed the Great Journey, he had travelled to Valinor and back before the Eldar set out from Cuiviénen.
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According to dating from the Annals of Aman in volume X of The History of Middle-earth, the first Elves of the Light (the ambassadors Ingwë, Finwë and Elwë) made the journey to Aman during the Years of the Trees, some 3,800 years before the first rising of the Moon and Sun. At their advice, many of the other Elves embarked on the Great Journey to become Elves of the Light themselves, a process that took approximately five centuries to complete.
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