The Pools of Ivrin are intriguing to me. They are not as well known as Fangorn or Lorien, but they have significance.
They were described in the Lays:
On Ivrin’s lake is endless laughter.
Lo! Cool and clear by crystal fountains
She is fed unfailing, from defilement warded
By Ylmir the old, who in ancient days,
Wielder of waters, here worked her beauty.
From outmost Ocean yet often comes
His message hither his magic bearing,
The healing of hearts and hope and valour
For foes of Bauglir. Friend is Ylmir
Who alone remembers in the Lands of Mirth
The need of Gnomes.
They were the meeting place for the Feast of Re-Uniting that took place in Year 20 of the Sun and Moon when Fingolfin, King of the Noldor, called for a great council.
The site was chosen as the land was fair. The pools of Ivrin were surrounded by green grass and protected by the mountains from Angband in the north.
In the First Age, Gwindor called Finduilas, Faclivrin, “which is the gleam of the sun on the pools of Ivrin.”
Turin is healed of his madness by drinking the water of Ivrin. He then writes and sings his Song of the Great Bow, and then learned from Gwindor of the curse on his family.
Tuor and Voronwe on their journey to Gondolin saw Turin at Ivrin. It was defiled by the passage of Glaurung and they saw a tall man hastening northwards and bearing a black sword, though they knew not who he was.
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