The Crossing of the El Caraxe

Fengolfin seeing that fayanor had left him to perish in araman or return in shame to valinor was filled with bitterness but he desired now as never before to come by some way to middle earth and meet fayanor again. He and his host wandered long in misery but their valor and endurance grew with hardship for they were a mighty people the elder children undying of aru eluvitar. They dared to pass into the bitterest north and finding no other way they endured at last the terror of the el caraxe and the cruel hills of ice few of the deeds of the noldor thereafter surpassed that desperate crossing in hardyhood or woe