Eltas

"Yea, 'tis an unhappy tale, for sorrow hath fared ever abroad among Men and doth so still, but in the wild days were very terrible things done and suffered; and yet hath Melko seldom devised more cruelty, nor do I know a tale that is more pitiful."

― Eltas, The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, Turambar and the Foalókë

Eltas was a man who introduced the Tale of Turambar and the [[#REDIRECT Glaurung#Other versions of the legendarium|Foalókë]], in the absence of Ailios, on the second day of the feast of Turuhalmë. The story was told in the Cottage of Lost Play to Eriol.

References

• The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, Turambar and the Foalókë