"I am turning in circles, dancing through this star-lit night until the dawn may arrive..."

Celenÿar Nimlaïwen was born as first and only daughter to Imirilë of the Vanyar and Terethoch of the Noldor upon Tol Eressëa, the island before Aman and the Blessed Realm of Valinor, long before the perils of Beleriand and the great War were unleashed.
Her mother, Imirilë was a great scholar and was hence called Ingolwendë, while her father was a proud and valiant sword-master in the service of the House of Finwë but more so even to Fëanor. As Terethoch loved Imirilë greatly he did not oppose the wish of his wife that Celenÿar should be raised in the vanyarian way and indeed did Celenÿar dwell almost entirely among the Vanyar and by Taniquetil, and seldom in Tirion. She learned to sing, how to write peotry and how to catch the beauty of Valimar into colours and to bring it into the form of a picture until she sat all day in her tower Illumalmar that her father has been letting build for her between Tirion and Taniquetil, so that she would dwell between her both kindreds.

By the hour the two Trees were destroyed and it came into knowledge of the Eldar that the Simirilli were stolen and that Finwë was slain by Melkor who forth from this hour was called Morgoth, Celenÿar was striken by a great and horrorfying slumber from which she many days did not woke. But she awoke finally, when another tiding had found her heart that pierced hers and her mother's greatly. For Terethoch, having followed his King Fëanor was slain by Teleri arrows during the Kinslaying of Alqualondë. Imirilë, strucken down by sorrow as if by a lightning went deep into the now dark forests of Valinor and was ever after not seen again, so great was the sadness that dwelt in her heart.

But Celenÿar went to the Teleri by Alqualondë and recovered the body of her father and they burried him by Tirion. Taking up his sword Artafion, she joined Fingolfin and went with his company over the Helcaraxë.
Later she met the Sinda Galodin whom she befriended and he spoke for her in Doriath and she was granted entrance, for she had committed no evil deed and was half of the Vanyar. Galodin fancied Celenÿar long and endurant but never did the maiden opend her heart to him and it was that one day in the forests of Neldoreth, she came upon Idhëarindil. He spoke not his heritage and from whence he came, but Celenÿar loved him greatly and she bore him two daughters, Tulien and Tuwien.
But the curse of Fëanor and those who followed hung aswell over her and she suffered greatly under the kinslaying in Doriath and the raid of the dwarves, that she cast her father's sword away and went to Ossiriand where she found shelter among the Green Elves.

At last she went once to battle in the War of Wrath and after the battle was won and the enemy of the world cast behind the Door of Night, Celenÿar was offered by the Vanyar who were with the host of the Valar to come with them back to the Blessed Realm. But Celenÿar refused and took her daughters, and with Idhëarindil they went back to the Laiquendi.
Later they lived in Lothlorien and to her sorrow did Idhëarindil vanish and was not found again.

In the Third Age, they met once more by the Western Shore and there Celenÿar bore him a son who they named Êlbrethíl Laurëdol, for his hair was as golden as of his mother. Idhëarindil, Tulien and Tuwien took then the ship to Valinor, while Celenÿar and her son stayed behind. She walks now as phanthom to mortal eyes the woods of Eriador and teaches her young son, who is still a boy, all the beautiful wonders of the earth, holding and protecting him from the shadow that creeps in the east...