The force that was besieging Rivendell was caught between Gil-galad and Elrond and destroyed. Sauron's army was thus pinned between the two forces and mostly wiped out in the ensuing Battle of the Gwathló. Sauron's forces were driven back from the Grey Havens, and retreating to the Gwathló found their way blocked by the second Númenórean army. The next year a great army of Númenor arrived, sent by Tar-Minastir and commanded by Ciryatur, which landed in Lindon, at Tharbad on the Gwathló, and in the south near Pelargir. He fled north with the survivors, founding Rivendell, the Dwarves retreated into Khazad-dûm and closed the gates.īy SA 1699 all of Eriador fell under Sauron's control, Imladris was besieged, as were the Grey Havens and Lindon was cut off from Rivendell and Khazad-dûm. But the Dwarves of Khazad-dûm sortied, attacking Sauron's army in the rear allowing Elrond to escape. However, in SA 1697 Eregion was laid waste, Celebrimbor, Lord of Eregion, was killed, with Elrond arriving too late his force was in danger of being overwhelmed. Elrond was sent to Eregion by Gil-galad with reinforcements. In SA 1695 Sauron attacked, crossing the Fords of Isen and beginning the Siege of Eregion. Messages of this betrayal were sent north to Lindon where the High King Gil-galad ruled, and he began amassing his forces, preparing for an invasion. The war began in SA 1693, almost a century after Sauron had deceived the Ñoldor of Eregion and forged the One Ring, claiming all the Rings of Power from Ost-in-Edhil except for the Three Rings of the Elves. The War of the Elves and Sauron was a great war fought in the mid- Second Age in Middle-earth, ending with Sauron's defeat and his expulsion from Eriador.
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