The Lord Of The Rings: First Age Explained

From armies of dragons to tragic heroes, legions of balrogs, massive wars, foul treachery, and a trio of superpowered gems that make the One Ring feel like your great-grandmother's pearl necklace, here are the epic events that shaped the First Age of Tolkien's Middle-earth.

The First Age comes on the heels of the Years of the Lamps and the Years of the Trees. The Years of the Lamps lasts for millennia and finds the Valar, the spirit guardians of Middle-earth, squaring off against the Dark Lord Morgoth, whose second in command, Sauron, will be the scourge of the Third Age.

This world-shaking conflict leads to the Years of the Trees, which starts after the Valar withdraw to the Blessed Realm. Here two mighty glowing trees take turns illuminating the continent. In the following millennia, the Elves "awaken" for the first time. Fearing for the safety of these new creatures, the Valar defeat and capture Morgoth, and encourage the Elves to come and live with them in the West. Many Elves heed the call, while others remain in Middle-earth.

The next few thousand years are a time of peace as Morgoth serves a three-age-long prison sentence, and the Elves that went West flourish in the Blessed Realm. It's at this early date that both Galadriel and Fëanor are born.

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In the Beginning | 0:00
Morgoth, Fëanor, and the Silmarils | 1:15
The Sun and Moon | 2:01
Initial successes | 2:50
Settling and the Sindar | 3:31
The Long Peace | 4:02
Fire and slaughter | 4:59
The slow defeat | 6:04
Two lovers | 6:43
A Middle-earth tragedy | 8:06
Eärendil the Mariner | 9:19
Catastrophe and the Second Age | 10:19

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