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Lemnos History. ©Greeka.com. According to ancient Greek mythology, Lemnos was the island of Hephaestus, the god of fire and volcanoes. A myth says that he landed on this island when Hera, his mother, threw him from Mount Olympus, where the Gods lived because she saw that he was an ugly baby.
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Lemnos in Mythology For ancient Greeks, the island was sacred to Hephaestus , god of technology, who fell on Lemnos when his father Zeus hurled him headlong out of Olympus. There, he was cared for by the Sinties , according to Iliad or by Thetis (Apollodorus, Bibliotheke I:3.5), and there with a Thracian nymph Kabiro (a daughter of Proteus) he ...
Apr 27, 2024 · Lemnos, isolated Greek island and dímos (municipality), North Aegean (Modern Greek: Vóreio Aigaío) periféreia (region), Greece. It is situated in the Aegean Sea, midway between Mount Áthos (Ágio) in northeastern mainland Greece and the Turkish coast. Composed mainly of volcanic rock, its western.
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Mar 21, 2012 · At the end of The Return of the King, Frodo, Bilbo, Gandalf, Elrond, and Galadriel left Middle-earth on a ship, along with other elves. I named those five because they were all ringbearers and it seems to be a common trait. Frodo and Bilbo bore the One Ring and the three others bore the three elven Rings.
- Gandalf was Istari and did not properly belong to the mortal lands of Middle-earth anyhow. Elrond (by his choice ) and Galadriel (by her b...
- They each had different reasons, which Tolkien discusses in his Letters. Gandalf As he himself notes in Return of the King , with Sauron defeated...
- With the destruction of the One Ring all that was wrought with the Three came to naught. For bearers of the Three, that made Middle-earth a much bl...
- The reason the 3 Ring-bearer elves left is because the time of the elves was over, and the time of men had come, so the Ring-bearers no longer were...
Lemnos or Limnos ( Greek: Λήμνος; Ancient Greek: Λῆμνος) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Lemnos regional unit, which is part of the North Aegean region. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Myrina. [2]
Thoas, the first mythical king of Lemnos and son of Dionysus and Ariadne, was married to Myrina. During his reign, women led from his daughter Ipsilili, rebelled the men who neglected them and decided to all kill them except Thoas.
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Hypsipyle, in Greek legend, daughter of Dionysus’s son Thoas, king of the island of Lemnos. When the women of Lemnos, furious at their husbands’ betrayal, murdered all the men on the island, Hypsipyle hid her father and aided his escape. She became queen of the island and welcomed the Argonauts.
