Mar 4
back to middle-earth month 3/4/26 | 2009: new directions | role models | maedhros, lord of himring
Maedhros did deeds of surpassing valour, and the Orcs fled before his face; for since his torment upon Thangorodrim his spirit burned like a white fire within, and he was as one that returns from the dead. Thus the great fortress upon the Hill of Himring could not be taken, and many of the most valiant that remained, both of the people of Dorthonion and of the east marches, rallied there to Maedhros; and for a while he closed once more the Pass of Aglon, so that the Orcs could not enter Beleriand by that road.
—The Silmarillion, “Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin”