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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 9469366" data-attributes="member: 58197">The two remaining Silmarils were removed from the Iron Crown after the War of Wrath. The Valar intended to take them back to Valinor, but Feanor's two surviving sons, Maedhros and Maglor -- bound by their oath to reclaim the Silmarils no matter who held them -- killed the guards and seized the stones. The Valar refused to shed any more blood and let Maedhros and Maglor leave with the Silmarils.However, the Silmarils burned the brothers until Maedhros leaped into a fiery chasm with his (presaging Gollum's fate), and Maglor cast his into the sea.The fate of the Crown after being used as a collar for Morgoth remains unknown. The obvious answer is that it went into the Void with him; but that is never stated outright, and it could be that physical objects can't be removed from Arda. If so, the Valar would have had to dispose of it somehow afterward -- they certainly would not want it in Aman -- and it's conceivable Sauron might have recovered it and reforged it into a crown again.I'm not real sold on this explanation, but it is at least possible. Still, the Crown was never indicated to possess any extraordinary power -- it wasn't Morgoth's equivalent of the One Ring or anything (per Tolkien, all of Arda was effectively Morgoth's Ring).</blockquote>