These people’s word for “farewell” titles a poetic lament that asks “who now shall refill the cup” and opens, “Ah! like gold fall the leaves in the wind.” A language spoken by these people is called “over-pretty” and “semantically sentimental” and compared to Nevbosh and Naffarin in the essay “A Secret Vice.” The poem “Namárië” is in this people’s language, for which the Tengwar script was developed by a master craftsman whose father Finwë was the first of these people to be killed in Aman. These people revered Varda the “star-kindler,” whose epithet is “Tintallë” in their Quenya language and “Gilthoniel” in the related Sindarin. After migrating to Valinor, many of these people returned with Fëanor to Beleriand to wrest three jewels back from Morgoth. For 10 points, Galadriel is a member of what immortal race in the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien? ■END■
ANSWER: Elves [or Elf; accept Quendi or Eldar or High Elves; accept Noldor or Vanyar; prompt on descriptions of the people of Middle Earth or people from Tolkien’s legendarium]
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