[Fingon is on the back of a giant eagle, in front of a tall, steep cliff to which Maedhros is bound with an iron shackle by his right wrist.] But Fingon could not release the hell-wrought bond upon [Maedhros's] wrist nor sever it, nor draw it from the stone. Again therefore in his pain Maedhros begged that he would slay him; but Fingon cut off his hand above the wrist, and Thorondor [the eagle] bore them back to Mithrim.

★ Memory:
The memory begins on the back of a giant eagle, with Fingon facing an almost naked and emaciated Maedhros who still bears the signs of having been tortured and is fixed to the upper part of a high, steep cliff by an iron shackle around his right wrist. He has with himself a harp, a bow and arrows, and a knife. Fingon tries for a good long while to get the iron bond that ties Maedhros to the rock off or to loosen it enough to pull the other elf's hand out of it, all the while aware that they are in enemy territory. After a while, Maedhros asks him repeatedly to end his suffering and just kill him if he cannot save him. At this point, Fingon takes his knife and with a good amount of expertise amputates his hand so that he can pull his arm out of the shackle and pull his friend onto the eagle (note: It is my headcanon that Fingon has done a number of amputations while crossing the Helcaraxë, so he has a solide idea of how to do it).

After this, the eagle flies them across dark, black mountains and a wide plain, over another range of mountains and then down towards a camp by a lake - on the other end of the lake, a second camp can be seen. The memory ends before they land.

★ Learned:
- so this is why Maitimo lacks a hand
- giant eagles?
- SUN. This is the first memory in which Fingon sees the sun of his world.
- apparently I used to have some medical knowledge