Yes, it is the most ancient and sacred of heirlooms, not only for the love of Finrod, but also because it was indeed a product of the Blessed Realm. It was also saved from the drowning Arvedui, since he gave it a gift to the Lossoth. It evidently went to the Lords of Andunië through Silmarien. The big mystery is how it survived the War of the Last Alliance and the Disaster of the Gladden Fields, unless left in Rivendell with the Sceptre of Annuminas.
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The hoes unrecked in the fields were flung, __ and fallen ladders in the long grass lay __ of the lush orchards; every tree there turned __ its tangled head and eyed them secretly, __ and the ears listened of the nodding grasses; __ though noontide glowed on land and leaf, __ their limbs were chilled.
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