Celebrimbor

[Maédhros]

From the Elessar

There was in Gondolin a jewel-smith named Enerdhil, the greatest of that craft among the Noldor after the death of Fëanor. Enerdhil loved all green things that grew, and his greatest joy was to see the sunlight through the leaves of trees. And it came into his heart to make a jewel within which the clear light of the sun should be imprisoned, but the jewel should be green as leaves. And he made this thing, and even the Noldor marvelled at it. For it is said that those who looked through this stone saw things that were withered or burned healed again or as they were in the grace of their youth, and that the hands of one who held it brought to all that they touched healing from hurt. This gem Enerdhil gave to Idril the King's daughter, and she wore it upon her breast; and so it was saved from the burning of Gondolin. And before Idril set sail she said to Eärendil her son: "The Elessar I leave with thee, for there are grievous hurts to Middle-earth which thou maybe shalt heal. But to none other shalt thou deliver it."

In the end of the essay we have the following:

The Elessar was made in Gondolin by Celebrimbor, and so came to Idril and so to Eärendil. But that passed away. But the second Elessar was made also by Celebrimbor in Eregion at the request of the Lady Galadriel (whom he loved), and it was not under the One, being made before Sauron rose again.

And we have the notes of CT:

This narrative goes with "Concerning Galadriel and Celeborn" in certain features, and was probably written at about the same time, or a little earlier. Celebrimbor is here again a jewel-smith of Gondolin, rather than one of the Fëanorians (cf. p.247); and Galadriel is spoken of as being unwilling to forsake Middle-earth (cf. p.246) – though the text was later emended and the conception of the ban introduced, and at a later point in the narrative she speaks of the pardon of the Valar.
Enerdhil appears in no other writing; and the concluding words of the text show that Celebrimbor was to displace him as the maker of the Elessar in Gondolin

We seem to have the following problem:

1. Celebrimbor was to displace the character of Enerdhil as the maker of the Elessar, but how can we explain Celebrimbor's appearance in Gondolin, being himself the son of Curufin a Fëanorian, given the fact that we know that Turgon had a great dislike for Fëanor and his sons.
2. Enerdhil would be a good compromise except for the fact that he cannot be the greatest jewel-smith after Fëanor, it has to be his grandson Celebrimbor. Can we keep Enerdhil knowing that he was going to be displaced as a character?
3. I feel bad about using Enerdhil because he was to be discarded. Why must the creator of the Elessar be told. We could keep it vague, that the Elessar was given to Idril in Gondolin.

We could use the following:

[quote]<LQ2 There shining fountains played, and in the courts of Turgon stood images of the Trees of old, which Turgon himself wrought with elven-craft; and the Tree which he made of gold was named Glingal, and the Tree whose flowers he made of silver was named Belthil, and the light which sprang from them filled all the ways of the city. But fairer than all the wonders of Gondolin was Idril Turgon's daughter, she that was called Celebrindal the Silver-foot for the whiteness of her unshod feet, but her hair was as the gold of Laurelin ere the coming of Melkor. <EL [She wore {it} [a jewel] upon her breast] within which the clear light of the sun {should be} [was] imprisoned [and it was]{, but the jewel should be} green as leaves and even the Noldor marvelled at it. For it is said that those who looked through this stone saw things that were withered or burned healed again or as they were in the grace of their youth, and that the hands of one who held it brought to all that they touched healing from hurt. >

It would not be the first time that such a thing would happen. I mean look at the Palantiri. There is no exact quote, as fas as I know, that tells us who exactly made them, although there is the indirect reference to them in the Silmarillion.
If we say that we do not like to use the mention of how the Elessar survived the destruction of Gondolin in here, we can take that little part and move it to our version of the Fall of Gondolin.