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More than six thousand years ago, in the age of the Noldor, they had dwelled in Beleriand, the mighty realm between the Ered Luin and the grinding ice of the Helcaraxë.
Lead by Alcartano, a group of elves approached the center of Caras Galadhon. And behold! Upon the mightiest Mallorn that towered the City of Light, there shone a silvern swan. A fountain it was, guiding clear streams of water into a pond that mirrored the stars.
"Here is the heart of Elvendom on earth, [...] and here my heart dwells ever, unless there be a light beyond the dark roads that we still must tread..."
„Time does not tarry ever, […] but change and growth is not in all things and places alike.
For the Elves the world moves, and it moves both very swift and very slow.
"...The fairest of all the dwellings of the Firstborn. There are no trees like the trees of this land. For in the autumn their leaves fall not, but turn to gold. Not till the spring and the new green opens do they fall, and then the boughs are laden with yellow flowers; and the floor of the wood is golden, and golden is the roof, and its pillars are of silver, for the bark of the trees is smooth and grey."