The Great Square, also known as the Court of the King,[1]:§130 was a square at the top of Túna, in Tirion, the great city of the Elves of Valinor, where the tree Galathilion stood under the Mindon Eldaliéva.[2]
It the location where Fëanor threatened his half-brother Fingolfin in public,[3] and where later he gave his great speech and infamous Oath.[4]
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Morgoth's Ring, "Part Two. The Annals of Aman: Of the Speech of Fëanor upon Túna"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalië"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, "Part Two: Valinor and Middle-earth before The Lord of the Rings, VI. Quenta Silmarillion", pp. 233-234