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Dates
Millennia before the beginning of the First Age1
Location
A journey from Cuiviénen in the distant East of Middle-earth to the western coasts of Beleriand, and thence across the Great Sea to the Blessed Realm (though by no means all the Elves who began the journey completed its entire course)
Race
Divisions
Important peaks
Many of the Teleri fell away from the Great Journey when it reached the Misty Mountains, thus forming the people known as the Nandor

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Great Journey

The journey of the Eldar into the West

The journey of the Eldar from Cuiviénen across Middle-earth and the Great Sea to Aman, there to dwell with the Valar in Valinor. Many of the Teleri turned aside during the journey, but the Three Kindreds of the Vanyar, the Noldor and the remaining Teleri came at last to the Undying Lands.


Notes

1

The Annals of Aman in volume X of The History of Middle-earth give us some definite dates for the Journey. The Vanyar and the Noldor took nearly two centuries to travel from Cuiviénen to Beleriand, while the Teleri took about thirty years longer. The Journey was completed more than 3,500 years before the first rising of the Sun. (Because this was long before the making of the Sun, the values shown here are converted to solar years from the much longer 'Valian Years' used in the Annals.)

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