Daeron was chief loremaster to the court of Thingol, and the ingenious inventor of the Runes. He was also named as the greatest of all musicians east of the Great Sea, greater even than Maglor son of Fëanor, and so he gained his epithet of 'The Minstrel'. During the long starlit years of the First Age, he made music for the dancing of Lúthien, whom he secretly loved. When Thingol sent Beren on the perilous Quest of the Silmaril, Lúthien set out to aid him, and Daeron set out in turn to seek for Lúthien. His search failed, and it is said that at last he wandered in misery over the Blue Mountains, where he lamented for his lost love as the ages passed.
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Daeron dated back to the time when Beleriand lay under starlight before the making of the Sun and Moon, but we have no definite dates for the Minstrel. After the departure of Lúthien, the Silmarillion says only that Daeron passed over the Blue Mountains into the East, and made sorrowful music for many ages. This is indefinite, and it might even be taken that the Minstrel was still making his music, somewhere in the unknown lands of the East, at the time of the War of the Ring or even beyond. The account is framed in the past tense, however, which implies that at some point Daeron's long life in Middle-earth ultimately came to an end (or perhaps that he simply faded away, as was the eventual fate of Elves in the mortal lands).
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