![]() Continuing their journey, they found twenty-four pairs of elves, singing without language, and Enel added them to his people. The ninety-six elves now invented many new words. ![]() These were tall and dark-haired, the fathers of most of the Ñoldor. Journeying further, they came across a band of Elves watching the stars, which Tata claims as his. The now sixty elves dwell by the rivers, and they invented poetry and music in Middle-earth. They came across six, nine, and twelve pairs of elves, and each "patriarch" claimed the pairs as his folk in order. Īccording to legend, Imin, Tata, and Enel, and their wives joined up and walked through the forests. ![]() The first Elves to awake were three pairs: Imin ("First") and his wife Iminyë, Tata ("Second") and Tatië, and Enel ("Third") and Enelyë. ![]() They awoke at Cuiviénen, the Water of Awakening, in the far east of Middle-earth, in the starlight of the Sleep of Yavanna, as the Sun and Moon had yet to be created. They are the eldest and noblest of the speaking races of Middle-earth. The Firstborn, the Elder Children of Ilúvatar, were conceived by Eru alone in the third theme of Ainulindalë. ![]()
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