29 de Setembro de 3021 TA: Elrond, Galadriel, Gandalf, Frodo e Bilbo partem para Valinor

Dos Anéis

«Now these were the Three that had last been made, and they possessed the greatest powers. Narya, Nenya, and Vilya, they were named, the Rings of Fire, and of Water, and of Air, set with ruby and adamant and sapphire; and of all the Elven-rings Sauron most desired to possess them, for those who had them in their keeping could ward off the decays of time and postpone the weariness of the world. (...)».

Dos seus possuidores

«(...) Therefore ere the Third Age was ended the Elves perceived that the Ring of Sapphire was with Elrond, in the fair valley of Rivendell, (...); whereas the Ring of Adamant was in the Land of Lorien where dwelt the Lady Galadriel. (...). But the Red Ring remained hidden until the end, and none save Elrond and Galadriel and Cirdan knew to whom it had been committed».

(...)

Now all these things were achieved for the most part by the counsel and vigilance of Mithrandir, and in the last few days he was revealed as a lord of great reverence, and clad in white he rode into battle; but not until the time came for him to depart was it known that he had long guarded the Red Ring of Fire. At the first that Ring had been entrusted to Cirdan, Lord of the Havens; but he had surrendered it to Mithrandir, for he knew whence he came and whither at last he would return».

Da partida

«White was that ship and long was it a-building, and long it awaited the end of which Cirdan had spoken. But when all these things were done, and the Heir of Isildur had taken up the lordship of Men, and the dominion of the West had passed to him, then it was made plain that the power of the Three Rings also was ended, and to the Firstborn the world grew old and grey. In that time the last of the Noldor set sail from the Havens and left Middle-earth for ever. And latest of all the Keepers of the Three Rings rode to the Sea, and Master Elrond took there the ship that Cirdan had made ready. In the twilight of autumn it sailed out of Mithlond, until the seas of the Bent World fell away beneath it, and the winds of the round sky troubled it no more, and borne upon the high airs above the mists of the world it passed into the Ancient West, and an end was come for the Eldar of story and of song».

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Cf. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion (online). Na edição da HarperCollins (1999), as citações correspondem às págs. 345, 358, 365 e 366. Ver também: Timeline of Arda.

Os retratos de Gandalf e Galadriel são detalhes e adaptações de ilustrações de Alan Lee; o de Elrond é de uma ilustração de Ebe-Kastein. O barco é também um detalhe de uma ilustração de Alan Lee.