Gondor: dealings with Elves

[Ivriniel]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

Imrahil of Dol Amroth counters that idea. When Legolas comments that maybe not all of Nimrodel's line had departed from Amroth's haven (Edhellond), Imrahil replies:

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If Edhellond was a point of contact between Gondor and Elves, Imrahil was well placed to be aware of it.

Yeah, there aren't many choices, really.

Amroth was lost at sea in 1981. He and a boat full of Elves were harboured at Edhellond. Amroth, probably Sindarin, was love sick for Nimrodel, the cranky anti-Noldorin Nandor/Silvan. She went missing, and Amroth begged his Elvish buddies to wait for her. They were holed up in an Elf-y boat having loaded it up with their belongings. Bound for the Straight Road. There was a freak storm of the mightiest-ing-ation-kind-big-thing (as Tolkien tends to do--he interweaves in his stories those times when the biggest-est-est thing happened), and the boat got unmoored. Off they were bound for Valinor, and Amroth (golden haired, not silver haired, which I find odd for someone supposedly Telerin) was spotted by the far sighted elves in the water, struggling for the shore.

What Imrahil and his folk, late TA know of Edhellond may not tell the entire tale. We know Edhellond was a very old Elven harbour probably dating back to FA, taking refugees from Beleriand. We think Galadriel and Noldorin folk spent some time there during the War of Elves and Sauron. And we know from that harbour Elves sailed on the Straight Road well into TA.

I don't know why Imrahil and Dol Amroth don't see many Elves anymore, but am not really surprised. By the time of the War of the Ring, there weren't many fair folk left in ME.