Nan Elmoth was a dark and tangled forest in East Beleriand, grown tall and shadowed, where the trees were the greatest and the gloom deepest in all that land. There in the starlit dusk Elwe Thingol met Melian the Maia and was enchanted, standing spellbound through long years; and there in later ages dwelt Eol the Dark Elf, who took Aredhel to wife and forged dark metals, and whose son was Maeglin, betrayer of Gondolin.