#brithiach

"...THERE THORONDOR ESPIED THEM, AND HE SENT TWO OF HIS EAGLES TO THEIR AID..."

PIC INFO: Resolution at 940x1600 -- Spotlight on a watercolor painting titled "Húrin and Huor are Carried to Gondolin," undated. King [Turgon] allowed them to stay in Gondolin for a year upon which time Turgon bent his law about visitors and granted them permission to leave. Artwork by Alan Lee.

"A mist arose from the river and hid them from their enemies, and they escaped over the Brithiach into Dimbar, and wandered among the hills beneath the sheer walls of the Crissaegrim, until they were bewildered in the deceits of that land and knew not the way to go ,on or to return. There Thorondor espied them, and he sent two of his eagles to their aid; and the eagles bore them up and brought them beyond the Encircling Mountains to the secret vale of Tumladen and the hidden city of Gondolin, which no Man yet had seen."

-- "THE SILMARILLION," Chapter 18 "Of the Ruin of Beleriand," written by J.R.R. Tolkien, posthumously edited & published by Christopher Tolkien in 1977