silwritersguild | Descendents of Finwë Part 21: Idril

Idril

*Also known as Itaril(lë) (HoME Vol. 12)
*She and Arothir (Orodreth) were the only great-grandchildren of Finwë to go into exile in Tolkien's final version of events (HoME Vol. 12)

Silver-foot
fairer than all the wonders of Gondolin was Idril, Turgon's daughter, she that was called Celebrindal, the Silver-foot, whose hair was as the gold of Laurelin before the coming of Melkor

Elenwë his [Turgon's] wife perished in the crossing of the Helcaraxë, and his daughter Idril Celebrindal was his only child

Maeglin
she was golden as the Vanyar, her mother's kindred, and she seemed to him as the sun from which all the King's hall drew its light

Eöl should be brought on the next day to the King's judgement; and Aredhel and Idril moved Turgon to mercy

they cast Eöl over the Caragdûr, and so he ended, and to all in Gondolin it seemed just; but Idril was troubled, and from that day she mistrusted her kinsman

hiding his mind so that few could read it, unless it were Idril Celebrindal

Idril loved Maeglin not at all; and knowing his thought of her she loved him the less. For it seemed to her a thing strange and crooked in him, as indeed the Eldar ever since have deemed it: an evil fruit of the Kinslaying, whereby the shadow of the curse of Mandos fell upon the last hope of the Noldor

Tuor
the heart of Idril was turned to him, and his to her

Eärendil Halfelven, the son of Tuor and Idril Celebrindal

Fall of Gondolin
Idril Celebrindal was wise and far-seeing, and her heart misgave her, and foreboding crept upon her spirit as a cloud. Therefore in that time she let prepare a secret way, that should lead down from the city and passing out beneath the surface of the plain issue far beyond the walls, northward of Amon Gwareth; and she contrived it that the work was known but to few, and no whisper of it came to Maeglin's ears

Morgoth sent him back to Gondolin, lest any should suspect the betrayal, and so that Maeglin should aid the assault from within, when the hour came; and he abode in the halls of the King with smiling face and evil in his heart, while the darkness gathered ever deeper upon Idril.

Tuor sought to rescue Idril from the sack of the city, but Maeglin had laid hands on her

Tuor and Idril led such remnants of the people of Gondolin as they could gather in the confusion of the burning down the secret way which Idril had prepared; and of that passage the captains of Angband knew nothing, and thought not that any fugitives would take a path towards the north and the highest parts of the mountains and the nighest to Angband

Tuor made a song for Eärendil his son, concerning the coming of Ulmo the Lord of Waters to the shores of Nevrast aforetime; and the sea-longing woke in his heart, and in his son's also. Therefore Idril and Tuor departed from Nan-tathren, and went southwards down the river to the sea; and they dwelt there by the mouths of Sirion, and joined their people to the company of Elwing Dior's daughter

Into the West
Tuor felt old age creep upon him, and ever a longing for the deeps of the Sea grew stronger in his heart. Therefore he built a great ship, and he named it Eärrámë, which is Sea-Wing; and with Idril Celebrindal he set sail into the sunset and the West, and came no more into any tale or song