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It looks to me like the group can be placed on the timeline of the First Age:
"The oldest one, the nameless one"
"The [Noldor] came in second's turn"
Then Feanor dies.
"younger sister... one for tears" - interestingly, there's nothing to say where this sister falls in the timeline.
"And one for joy, resounding joy"
Then "peace was guarded well".
Then the Dagor Bragollach takes up most of the second stanza, with Fingolfin's death.
"I'm not the least, but I'm the last"
Then "we destroyed our motherland", which means the motherland (Beleriand?) must have existed until the last's time.
That's five clearly marked members of the group - but the poem also says "You cannot count us on one hand".
hS
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