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Battle in the Thousand Caves

2010-06-22T12:48:40Z

212.73.82.183:

{{battle|
image=|
name=Battle of the Thousand Caves|
conflict=[[Sack of Doriath]]|
date=[[First Age 503 | 503]] FA|
place=The Elven city of [[Menegroth]]|
result=Victory for the Dwarves|
side1=Elves|
side2=Dwarves|
commanders1=|
commanders2=* King [[Naugladur]]|
forces1=Unknown, thousands|
forces2=Uknown, Est. 20-40,000|
casual1=
Thousands of soldiers and civilians|
casual2=
Heavy, Est. 10,000 or more|
}}

The ''' Battle of the Thousand Caves''' was a battle between the [[Dwarves of Nogrod]] and the [[Sindar|Elves of Menegroth]].

== Events Prior to the Battle ==
The [[Quest for the Silmaril]] resulted the one of the [[Silmaril]]s taken from the [[Iron Crown]] of [[Morgoth]] by [[Beren]] and [[Luthien]], and it was later, after the [[Hunting of the Wolf]] and the slaing of [[Carcharoth]], given to [[Elu Thingol]] of [[Doriath]]. It remained in the treasury of Thingol, and he desired to have it always at hand.

After some years, [[Hurin]] was releast by Morgoth and was let to go wherever he he may desire. Hurin then desired revenge for him and his family, and came first to [[Nargothrond]], and there he found [[Mim]] and killed him. From all the treasures he took only [[Nauglamir]], the Necklace of the Dwarves, and brought it to Thingol.

Having the [[Nauglamir]] and the [[Silmaril]], the two great treasures, he desided to unite them and put the Silmaril into the Dwarven Necklace. The [[Nogrod|Dwarves]] that made that work desired the Silmaril from the beginning, and when the work ended refused to give it. In the conflict Thingol was killed, but the rest of the Dwarves were hunted down at their road to home, and Nauglamir, now with the Silmaril in it, was taken from them.

== Opposing Forces ==
But two of the [[Dwarves]] that killed [[Thingol]] survived, and they fled to their home at the [[Blue Mountains]]. They didn't tell the Dwarves of [[Nogrod]] the truth, but instead told them that Thingol killed the Dwarves that made the [[Nauglamir]], refusing to pay them for their work. The Dwarves were enraged, and desided to make revenge, and although the Dwarves of Belegost refused to aid them, the Dwarves of Nogrod entered [[Beleriand]] with a big army, and, crossing [[Sarn Athrad]], moved west towards [[Doriath]].

After the death of Thingol the power of [[Melian]] waned, and she lost her magical control upon the woods of Doriath, and soon the [[Girdle of Melian]] was no longer protecting Doriath. Melian left [[Middle-earth]] and returned to [[Valinor]], and the [[Sindar]] remained leaderless, except their chieftains, which were scattered and without hope. But the Sindars lived mostly in [[Menegroth]], and there most of them resisted the attack of the Dwarves.

== The Battle ==
The Dwarves entered [[Menegroth]] and began fighting in the Thousand Caves. We don't know much about the battle, but we know that the losses were heavy on the both sides. Mablung was defending the treasury were the [[Nauglamir]] lay, and there he was killed before it's doors, and the Silmaril was taken. After the Nauglamir was in the hands of the [[Dwarves]], they retreated from [[Menegroth]] and began their way home, to the mountains of [[Ered Lindon]].

== Aftermath and Repercussions ==

== Sources ==
*[[The Silmarillion]]

[[Category:Conflicts of the First Age]]

Battle in the Thousand Caves

2010-06-22T12:46:49Z

212.73.82.183: /* The Battle */

{{battle|
image=|
name=Battle of the Thousand Caves|
conflict=[[Sack of Doriath]]|
date=[[First Age 503 | 503]] FA|
place=The Elven city of [[Menegroth]]|
result=Victory for the Dwarves|
side1=Elves|
side2=Dwarves|
commanders1=|
commanders2=* King [[Naugladur]]|
forces1=Unknown, thousands|
forces2=Uknown, Est. 20-40,000|
casual1=
Thousands of soldiers and civilians|
casual2=
Heavy, Est. 10,000 or more|
}}

The ''' Battle of the Thousand Caves''' was a battle between the [[Dwarves of Nogrod]] and the [[Elves of Menegroth]].

== Events Prior to the Battle ==
The [[Quest for the Silmaril]] resulted the one of the [[Silmaril]]s taken from the [[Iron Crown]] of [[Morgoth]] by [[Beren]] and [[Luthien]], and it was later, after the [[Hunting of the Wolf]] and the slaing of [[Carcharoth]], given to [[Elu Thingol]] of [[Doriath]]. It remained in the treasury of Thingol, and he desired to have it always at hand.

After some years, [[Hurin]] was releast by Morgoth and was let to go wherever he he may desire. Hurin then desired revenge for him and his family, and came first to [[Nargothrond]], and there he found [[Mim]] and killed him. From all the treasures he took only [[Nauglamir]], the Necklace of the Dwarves, and brought it to Thingol.

Having the [[Nauglamir]] and the [[Silmaril]], the two great treasures, he desided to unite them and put the Silmaril into the Dwarven Necklace. The [[Nogrod|Dwarves]] that made that work desired the Silmaril from the beginning, and when the work ended refused to give it. In the conflict Thingol was killed, but the rest of the Dwarves were hunted down at their road to home, and Nauglamir, now with the Silmaril in it, was taken from them.

== Opposing Forces ==
But two of the [[Dwarves]] that killed [[Thingol]] survived, and they fled to their home at the [[Blue Mountains]]. They didn't tell the Dwarves of [[Nogrod]] the truth, but instead told them that Thingol killed the Dwarves that made the [[Nauglamir]], refusing to pay them for their work. The Dwarves were enraged, and desided to make revenge, and although the Dwarves of Belegost refused to aid them, the Dwarves of Nogrod entered [[Beleriand]] with a big army, and, crossing [[Sarn Athrad]], moved west towards [[Doriath]].

After the death of Thingol the power of [[Melian]] waned, and she lost her magical control upon the woods of Doriath, and soon the [[Girdle of Melian]] was no longer protecting Doriath. Melian left [[Middle-earth]] and returned to [[Valinor]], and the [[Sindar]] remained leaderless, except their chieftains, which were scattered and without hope. But the Sindars lived mostly in [[Menegroth]], and there most of them resisted the attack of the Dwarves.

== The Battle ==
The Dwarves entered [[Menegroth]] and began fighting in the Thousand Caves. We don't know much about the battle, but we know that the losses were heavy on the both sides. Mablung was defending the treasury were the [[Nauglamir]] lay, and there he was killed before it's doors, and the Silmaril was taken. After the Nauglamir was in the hands of the [[Dwarves]], they retreated from [[Menegroth]] and began their way home, to the mountains of [[Ered Lindon]].

== Aftermath and Repercussions ==

== Sources ==
*[[The Silmarillion]]

[[Category:Conflicts of the First Age]]

Battle in the Thousand Caves

2010-06-22T12:41:29Z

212.73.82.183: /* The Battle */

{{battle|
image=|
name=Battle of the Thousand Caves|
conflict=[[Sack of Doriath]]|
date=[[First Age 503 | 503]] FA|
place=The Elven city of [[Menegroth]]|
result=Victory for the Dwarves|
side1=Elves|
side2=Dwarves|
commanders1=|
commanders2=* King [[Naugladur]]|
forces1=Unknown, thousands|
forces2=Uknown, Est. 20-40,000|
casual1=
Thousands of soldiers and civilians|
casual2=
Heavy, Est. 10,000 or more|
}}

The ''' Battle of the Thousand Caves''' was a battle between the [[Dwarves of Nogrod]] and the [[Elves of Menegroth]].

== Events Prior to the Battle ==
The [[Quest for the Silmaril]] resulted the one of the [[Silmaril]]s taken from the [[Iron Crown]] of [[Morgoth]] by [[Beren]] and [[Luthien]], and it was later, after the [[Hunting of the Wolf]] and the slaing of [[Carcharoth]], given to [[Elu Thingol]] of [[Doriath]]. It remained in the treasury of Thingol, and he desired to have it always at hand.

After some years, [[Hurin]] was releast by Morgoth and was let to go wherever he he may desire. Hurin then desired revenge for him and his family, and came first to [[Nargothrond]], and there he found [[Mim]] and killed him. From all the treasures he took only [[Nauglamir]], the Necklace of the Dwarves, and brought it to Thingol.

Having the [[Nauglamir]] and the [[Silmaril]], the two great treasures, he desided to unite them and put the Silmaril into the Dwarven Necklace. The [[Nogrod|Dwarves]] that made that work desired the Silmaril from the beginning, and when the work ended refused to give it. In the conflict Thingol was killed, but the rest of the Dwarves were hunted down at their road to home, and Nauglamir, now with the Silmaril in it, was taken from them.

== Opposing Forces ==
But two of the [[Dwarves]] that killed [[Thingol]] survived, and they fled to their home at the [[Blue Mountains]]. They didn't tell the Dwarves of [[Nogrod]] the truth, but instead told them that Thingol killed the Dwarves that made the [[Nauglamir]], refusing to pay them for their work. The Dwarves were enraged, and desided to make revenge, and although the Dwarves of Belegost refused to aid them, the Dwarves of Nogrod entered [[Beleriand]] with a big army, and, crossing [[Sarn Athrad]], moved west towards [[Doriath]].

After the death of Thingol the power of [[Melian]] waned, and she lost her magical control upon the woods of Doriath, and soon the [[Girdle of Melian]] was no longer protecting Doriath. Melian left [[Middle-earth]] and returned to [[Valinor]], and the [[Sindar]] remained leaderless, except their chieftains, which were scattered and without hope. But the Sindars lived mostly in [[Menegroth]], and there most of them resisted the attack of the Dwarves.

== The Battle ==
The Dwarves entered [[Menegroth]] and began fighting in the Thousand Caves. We don't know much about the battle, but we know that the losses were heavy on the both sides. Mablung was defending the treasury were the [[Nagulamir]] lay, and there he was killed before it's doors, and the Silmaril was taken. After the Nauglamir was in the hands of the [[Dwarves]], they retreated from [[Menegroth]] and began their way home, to the mountains of [[Ered-Lindon]].

== Aftermath and Repercussions ==

== Sources ==
*[[The Silmarillion]]

[[Category:Conflicts of the First Age]]

Battle in the Thousand Caves

2010-06-22T12:32:08Z

212.73.82.183: /* Opposing Forces */

{{battle|
image=|
name=Battle of the Thousand Caves|
conflict=[[Sack of Doriath]]|
date=[[First Age 503 | 503]] FA|
place=The Elven city of [[Menegroth]]|
result=Victory for the Dwarves|
side1=Elves|
side2=Dwarves|
commanders1=|
commanders2=* King [[Naugladur]]|
forces1=Unknown, thousands|
forces2=Uknown, Est. 20-40,000|
casual1=
Thousands of soldiers and civilians|
casual2=
Heavy, Est. 10,000 or more|
}}

The ''' Battle of the Thousand Caves''' was a battle between the [[Dwarves of Nogrod]] and the [[Elves of Menegroth]].

== Events Prior to the Battle ==
The [[Quest for the Silmaril]] resulted the one of the [[Silmaril]]s taken from the [[Iron Crown]] of [[Morgoth]] by [[Beren]] and [[Luthien]], and it was later, after the [[Hunting of the Wolf]] and the slaing of [[Carcharoth]], given to [[Elu Thingol]] of [[Doriath]]. It remained in the treasury of Thingol, and he desired to have it always at hand.

After some years, [[Hurin]] was releast by Morgoth and was let to go wherever he he may desire. Hurin then desired revenge for him and his family, and came first to [[Nargothrond]], and there he found [[Mim]] and killed him. From all the treasures he took only [[Nauglamir]], the Necklace of the Dwarves, and brought it to Thingol.

Having the [[Nauglamir]] and the [[Silmaril]], the two great treasures, he desided to unite them and put the Silmaril into the Dwarven Necklace. The [[Nogrod|Dwarves]] that made that work desired the Silmaril from the beginning, and when the work ended refused to give it. In the conflict Thingol was killed, but the rest of the Dwarves were hunted down at their road to home, and Nauglamir, now with the Silmaril in it, was taken from them.

== Opposing Forces ==
But two of the [[Dwarves]] that killed [[Thingol]] survived, and they fled to their home at the [[Blue Mountains]]. They didn't tell the Dwarves of [[Nogrod]] the truth, but instead told them that Thingol killed the Dwarves that made the [[Nauglamir]], refusing to pay them for their work. The Dwarves were enraged, and desided to make revenge, and although the Dwarves of Belegost refused to aid them, the Dwarves of Nogrod entered [[Beleriand]] with a big army, and, crossing [[Sarn Athrad]], moved west towards [[Doriath]].

After the death of Thingol the power of [[Melian]] waned, and she lost her magical control upon the woods of Doriath, and soon the [[Girdle of Melian]] was no longer protecting Doriath. Melian left [[Middle-earth]] and returned to [[Valinor]], and the [[Sindar]] remained leaderless, except their chieftains, which were scattered and without hope. But the Sindars lived mostly in [[Menegroth]], and there most of them resisted the attack of the Dwarves.

== The Battle ==

== Aftermath and Repercussions ==

== Sources ==
*[[The Silmarillion]]

[[Category:Conflicts of the First Age]]

Battle in the Thousand Caves

2010-06-22T12:07:22Z

212.73.82.183: /* Events Prior to the Battle */

Battle in the Thousand Caves

2010-06-22T12:06:17Z

212.73.82.183: /* Events Prior to the Battle */

Battle in the Thousand Caves

2010-06-22T12:04:37Z

212.73.82.183: /* Events Prior to the Battle */