First Age 472

First Age 472 was the four hundred and seventy-second year of the First Age of the Children of Illúvatar. It was sometimes known as the Year of Lamentation because of the events of Nirnaeth Arnoediad.^[1]

[edit] Spring

• Marriage of Huor and Rían.

[edit] Midsummer

• The Nírnaeth Arnoediad: deaths of Fingon, Huor, Azaghâl, Hundar and Haldir and capture of Húrin Thalion.
• Turgon succeeds Fingon as High King of the Noldor in Middle-earth.

[edit] Late

• Birth of Tuor.
• Death of Glóredhel.
• Death of Rían.

[edit] References

1. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin".