Also known as: Silmaril, The Great Jewels
The three Great Jewels of Fëanor, mightiest works of craft ever achieved, holding unconsumed the blended light of the Two Trees of Valinor. Varda hallowed them so that no evil or mortal flesh could touch them unburned. When Morgoth slew the Trees and stole the jewels for his iron crown, Fëanor and his sons swore the terrible Oath that drove the Noldor into exile, kinslaying, and ruin — the whole tragedy of the First Age winds about them.
Beren and Lúthien cut one from Morgoth's crown, and it passed through Doriath's fall to Eärendil, who bears it across the sky as the Evening Star. The other two, seized from the Valar's keeping after the War of Wrath, burned the hands of Maedhros and Maglor whose Oath had forfeit their right: one went with Maedhros into a fiery chasm, the other was cast by Maglor into the sea. So the three found their ends in sky, earth, and water.