First Age 590 (abbreviated to F.A. 590) is the 590th, and last, year of the Sun of the First Age of Middle-earth.
Notable events in this year include:
- After the War of Wrath, Morgoth is banished forever into the Void through the Door of Night,[1] which will be guarded by Eärendil the Mariner until the coming of the Dagor Dagorath.[2]
- The Host of the West finally leaves sunken Beleriand and summons the Eldar to remove to Aman and settle on Tol Eressëa, but Círdan, Galadriel and Celeborn, Celebrimbor, Gil-galad, and many Sindar elect to remain in Middle-earth.[2]
- As a gift to the Men of the Three Houses of the Edain (as well as the remaining Drúedain of Beleriand[3]) who had helped to defeat Morgoth, the Valar raise the island of Elenna amidst the Great Sea. Guided by the Star of Eärendil, most of them start migrating there to establish a new kindom removed from the dangers of Middle-earth.[4][5]
- The choice of the Half-elven: Elrond chooses to be of the Elven-kind, and to remain in Middle-earth beside Gil-galad; while his brother Elros chooses to be a mortal Man and thus remains with the Edain.[2][4][5]
- The First Age ends.[1][2][6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Three. The Wanderings of Húrin and Other Writings not forming part of the Quenta Silmarillion: V. The Tale of Years", p. 346
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The Drúedain", "Notes", note 7, pp. 403-4
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Númenorean Kings", "Númenor", pp. 1034-5
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Akallabêth: The Downfall of Númenor"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B: The Tale of Years (Chronology of the Westlands), p. 1085