Fëanor looked around. There was no other way than the passage over the channel, as they would never would have made it over the grinding ice and the colds of Morgoth in the Helcaraxe. So Fëanor ordered that all the Elves of his host should be ferried over to the shores of Middle Earth. As the host of Fingolfin, a noble Elf of a House of Princes, should be ferried over, Fëanor however ordered that the ships should be burned. For he was enraged with a lust of the Silmarils, and he endured no other to claim it. Such was his spirit in this our, and it was the first sign after the kinslaying at Alqualonde that the Oath he had taken should drive him and his people to a bitter end.
Fëanor and his host then entered into Beleriand, the wide region in the north-west of Middle Earth of Old. At Lake Mithrim they made their camp, for there they found good food and water, whereas the lake should be some protection for their camp.
As his scouts scoured all the lands in the near distances they found other people. One of them was Beor, one of the fathers of the fathers of Men, which the Elves call Edain, or Atani, "the Second People". He befriended the Elves as he was drawn to their splendour in both shape and mind and learned much of them, for they were mighty in craft. Yet they too found the presence of utter evil, as they met ambassadors of Ulfang, leader of the Easterlings. They are a fierce people and under the sway of Morgoth, the Dark Lord, as rumours report.
The seven sons of Fëanor met another tribe of Men on their journeys, the House of Haldad. They are friendly to the Elves, yet not willing to ally themselves, for they fear them.
In those times Fëanors word was law to his people, and everyone would have sacrificed himself for the good of the Noldorin Elves...
One day Curufin, son of Fëanor, came to his father and reported to him that in the mountains above Mithrim a great store of a shiny substance had been found. As they had learned in their Youth in the West from Aulë, mightiestof the Valar in the deeds of smithcraft, this was Copper, a metal that could be made into Weapons and other forms of use.
News even reported that Beor had a source too.
The Noldor at Mithrim prospered, and if they wished to drive away the fear of the Dark Powers, they listened to the tales and songs of the Blessed Realm when the world was young and without fear. They had built an Odeon for that purpose, the knowledge of it was a gift from the Valar they brought out of the West.
At a time Thorondor, one of the greatest Eagles of the North, swept over the lands of the Noldor. This is what he saw:
As the fear of Morgoth and the powers of the dark grew the Noldor decided to send hidden scouts into the lands of the East to gather as much information as they could:
Next time we learn more about the fates of the Noldorin Elves in Beleriand...
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Conclusion: We have Copper, the Wheel comes in next turn. I suggest to grow Mithrim to size 3 (2 turns), then switch from Barracks to Worker. There is land to settle aplenty in the north.
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