The first White Tree of Gondor came from a fruit that Isildur stole from Nimloth the Fair, the White Tree of NΓΊmenor, before Nimloth was destroyed at Sauron's insistence. Isildur brought the sapling to Middle-earth and eventually planted it in Minas Ithil before his house. But when Sauron returned to Middle-earth, he attacked and captured Minas Ithil, destroying the White Tree. Isildur escaped, again taking a sapling with him.
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While in Minas Anor instructing his nephew Meneldil in rulership, Isildur planted a sapling of the White Tree in memory of his brother, AnΓ‘rion.This White Tree stood until TA 1636, when the Great Plague spread across Gondor.
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A third sapling was planted in TA 1640 by King Tarondor. After the line of the Kings failed the tree never bore fruit and seldom flowered and finally withered and died in TA 2872 at the death of the Ruling Steward Belecthor II. At this time no seedling of the tree was found or planted, and the dead tree was left standing "until the King returns."
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Following his coronation as King of Gondor, Aragorn was taken by Gandalf to the slopes of Mindolluin. There, Aragorn found a sapling of the White Tree. The dead tree was removed from the court and placed in the Tombs of the Kings, and Aragorn planted the sapling in its place. In June of TA 3019, the tree bloomed.
The finding of the sapling is not seen in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). In the film, the previously dead tree is shown to be flowering again during the Siege of Gondor and the imminent arrival of Aragorn on the Black Ships.
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It was forged by Telchar of Nogrod before or during the First Age. The blade broke in the Battle of the Last Alliance, and when Elendil fell in the battle against Sauron in 3441 Second Age, the blade's sheen, which only returned after it was reforged.
With the broken blade, Isildur, Elendil's son, cut the One Ring from Sauron's finger. After Isildur's death, Ohtar brought the fragments back to Arnor, where it became one of the heirlooms of the Isildur line. When Angmar destroyed Arnor, the fragments were kept in Rivendell and Elrond prophesied that it would be forged again as soon as The One Ring returned. From the fragments of Narsil, the sword AndΓΊril βFlame of the Westβ was forged later, at Elrond's behest.
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