Inside Middle-earth — The History of the Elves(II): The Teleri Diaspora
The journey of the third clan of the Elves spread them throughout Middle-earth. They lost a king but ended up finding a home.
The Teleri were the third of the clans that undertook the Great Journey to Aman, the largest of the groups and the one that took the longest to cross all Middle-earth before reaching the western shores.
They were commanded by Elwë, one of the three Elven emissaries who first traveled to Valinor and returned to lead his people to the land of the Valar. The king received the help of his brother Olwë, whose figure was necessary to manage a clan with so many members, much larger than the Noldor and the Vanyar.
It happened that being such a large group (even taking into account that half of them preferred not to go to Aman, being known as the Avari), with the passing of the long years that the journey lasted, different groups separated from the clan and abandoned the march.
These groups did not return to Cuiviénen with the Avari but settled in various places in Middle-earth.
The first to separate were those who did not make it across the Misty Mountains and ended up living in the foothills of that mountain range and the…
