First Age 510 (abbreviated to F.A. 510) is the 510th year of the Sun of the First Age of Middle-earth.
Notable events in this year include:
Midsummer
- The Fall of Gondolin: Morgoth attacks Gondolin with an army of orcs, dragons, wolves and balrogs.[1][2]
- Ecthelion dies killing Gothmog, Lord of Balrogs.[1]
- Deaths of King Turgon and many chieftains of the noble houses of Gondolin.[1]
- Maeglin takes Idril and Eärendil. Tuor kills Maeglin.[1]
- Idril and Tuor lead a group of survivors out a secret tunnel and across the Cirith Thoronath. Glorfindel dies there killing a Balrog. The exiles wander towards the Mouths of Sirion.[1]
- Gil-galad becomes High King of the Noldor.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Three. The Wanderings of Húrin and Other Writings not forming part of the Quenta Silmarillion: V. The Tale of Years", p. 351