Crown of Gondor

The Crown of Gondor, also called the winged crown, White Crown, Silver Crown and the crown of Elendil, was the ceremonial headgear of the Kings of Gondor, and was used as a symbol of the Kingship.
== Description ==
It is said that the original crown was a plain Númenórean war-helm. However a later crown replaced it, described as a tall, jeweled and winged helm, not unlike the helms of the Guards of the Citadel, but taller and all white, with wings resembling those of a sea-bird wrought of pearl and silver. Seven gems of adamant were set in the circlet. On its summit was a jewel, the light of which went up like a flame to represent Anarion.
== History ==
The original crown of Gondor was the battle-helmet of Isildur. This crown was used from the beginning of the Third Age until the reign of Atanatar II the Glorious, who fashioned a new jeweled crown, of silver.
It was tradition that the new king would receive the crown from his father before he died, or take it from his hands at his father's tomb. When Eärnur rode off to Minas Morgul in TA 2050, he left the crown in the lap of his father Eärnil II in the Hallows of Minas Tirith. There it remained for the next 969, years until the Crowning of King Elessar after the defeat of Sauron.
The silver crown was known to many outside Gondor; Gollum remembered being told of it as a child, despite being born long after the ending of the kings.