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Okay. Are you Minas Tirith, the Tower of Guard of the First Age?
It stood on an island in Sirion
It was the Tower of Guard for centuries
Time passed
And the Noldor grew complacent with their Siege.
Sauron came upon the tower and its people,
Driving them out and bringing spiritual ruin, and ultimately killing its king and handing over the keys to its destruction.
I do not know whether the loss of Minas Tirith involved slaughter,
But the tower watched until it was destroyed completely.
Alarmingly, for all the talk of Finrod's grave remaining "inviolate, until the land was changed and broken, and foundered under destroying seas," the Grey Annals record that after the Nirnaeth, "the pass of Sirion was pierced and Tol-sirion retaken and its dread towers rebuilt". Christopher even highlights this, saying the published Silm was amended from "[the isle] ever after remained inviolate; for Sauron came never back thither". I guess when they rebuilt they left the grave alone? (Tragically, only seven years passed between Finrod's death, and Sauron reclaiming Tol Sirion.)
hS
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