A gateway in the mountains between northern Nevrast and Hithlum, built by the Noldor who followed Turgon in the earliest years after their Return to Middle-earth. After Turgon's departure to Gondolin, the Gate was lost, but it was rediscovered and used centuries later by Tuor in his escape from the oppressed lands of Hithlum.
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Turgon and his people abandoned Nevrast for Gondolin in about the year I 126, so the Gate cannot have been built after that date. Turgon's craftsmen, though, had been working on the Hidden City for about seventy years before this, and it seems unlikely that they would have left that work to build the Gate. Most likely, then, is a rather earlier construction date during the first fifty years of the First Age. |
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