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dor assailed them, and they made the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, and the hosts of Gil-galad and Elendil were mustered in Arnor.Thereupon Elrond paused a while and sighed. 'I remember well the splendour of their banners,' he said. 'It recalled to me the glory of the Elder Days and the hosts of Beleriand, so many great princes and captains were assembled. And yet not so many, nor so fair, as when Thangorodrim was broken,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the Elves deemed that evil was ended for ever,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and it was not so.''You remember?' said Frodo, speaking his thought aloud in his astonishment. 'But I thought,' he stammered as Elrond turned towards him, 'I thought that the fall of Gil-galad was a long age ago.''So it was indeed,' answered Elrond gravely. 'But my memory reaches back even to the Elder Days. E.rendil was my sire, who was born in Gondolin before its fall; and my mother was Elwing, daughter of Dior, son of L煤thien of Doriath. I have seen three ages in the West of the world, and many defeats,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and many fruitless victories.'I was the herald of Gil-galad and marched with his host. I was at the Battle of Dagorlad before the Black Gate of Mordor, where we had the mastery: for the Spear of Gil-galad and the Sword of Elendil,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Aiglos and Narsil, none could withstand. I beheld the last combat on the slopes of Orodruin, where Gil-galad died, and Elendil fell, and Narsil broke beneath him; but Sauron himself was overthrown, and Isildur cut the Ring from his hand with the hilt- shard of his father's swor