First Age 538

First Age 538 (abbreviated to F.A. 538) is the 538th year of the Sun of the First Age of Middle-earth.
Notable events in this year include:
* The Third Kinslaying: the remaining sons of Fëanor, desiring the Silmaril, attack the remnants of Doriath and Gondolin at the New Havens.
* Círdan and Gil-galad send aid to the Havens. They arrive too late and the people are defeated; the refugees move to the Isle of Balar.
* Death of Amrod and Amras.
* Elrond and Elros are taken captive by Maglor, but Maglor comes to love the boys and fosters them.
* Elwing, bearing the Silmaril, casts herself into the sea. Ulmo bears her up in the likeness of a swan and she finds Eärendil.