From his forest home, he watched the sky turn red in the West as Eregion fell. He saw the smoke of the War of the Elves and Sauron rise like a funeral shroud. He realized then that the "Articles of Peace" Annatar had promised were merely chains of gold. Elendilmir never made a ring again. Instead, he crafted small, glass birds that sang of the wind—things that were beautiful precisely because they were meant to break and pass away, unlike the stagnant, frozen perfection the Rings of Power sought to create. Key Themes of Middle-earth Stories:

Elves live with the grief of a fading world.

To give you a detailed story set in Tolkien’s world, let’s look at a "lost" perspective from the —the era of the forging of the Rings and the rise of Númenor. The Shadow of the Gilded Star

Elendilmir was a minor smith, a craftsman who worked not with Mithril, but with copper and glass. He watched from the fringes of the Ghalad-mîrdain (the Jewel-smiths) as their lord, , grew closer to the stranger known as Annatar , the "Lord of Gifts." Annatar was beautiful, his voice like a well-tuned harp, and his knowledge of the earth’s bones was beyond anything the Elves had seen.

Saruman and Sauron represent the machine; the Ents and Hobbits represent the earth.