39. Tapestries: Thorondor

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There was an eagle on the tapestry - the King of eagles. But the nests of the giant eagles of the First Age were now empty, destroyed under the Sea, and only the underwater creatures of Ulmo knew where they lay. Where is now mighty Thorondor? There was no song of his end, no tale that would tell of his fall. He flew away, returned to his lord Manwë in Valinor, and nests upon the peaks of Taniquetil. Where are the mighty wings, dancing among the clouds? Only a tapestry bears the memory that such majestic strength once soared above Middle-earth…