It's in the bok of Lost Tales, cos that's where Aelfwine fines them in the first place.

Yeah they were pardoned in the Silm, but they get to go to Valinor in that, they are only banished to Tol Erressea in the Bolt.

Yeah that's where it came from in the first place. The Teleri who took ages to go to Valinor begged Ulmo to leave the island ferry where they could still see both, and it became Tol Erressea.

The kinslaying took place at the Havens of Alqualonde where most of the Teleri settled on the shores of Valinor, just underneath the gap of thingy. Not all of them stayed on Tol Eressea. The Noldor who were left on the shores after Feanor had legged it with the boats then marched all the way up to the Helcaraxe (grinding ice) to collect the Doom of Mandos and act like morons generally.
Man, and I did that from memory! Have I really got no life?

I think it was rhetorical yeah. But I could be wrong...

Yeah, me too!

When the hosts of the Noldor leave for Middle-Earth, the watcher on the shore said to them that the gates of Valinor would be closed to them forever. Galadriel was pardoned and so she retreated over the Sea. Atleast that's my understanding of it.

Eriol/Aelfwine got lost in a massive stormy type thing, and washed up on teh shores of Valinor, by an extraordinary coincidence. I think the stretch of the imagination required to go with this idea is what made JRR change the layout to what eventually became the SIl..

This post has lain dead for awhile, but it is interesting, so I am reviving it!
I understand that there are no geographical regions which exactly mirror ME or any of Tolkien's realms, but to me, Tol Eressea invokes the spirit and ideals of Ireland-do you think Tolkien had exact places in mind for each area he thought of? Does anyone care?

*Pats himself on the back for just having read LT2 again.* In the early versions, Eressea was Britain, and hauled back to ME for a conflict that at times was and at others wasn't the Last Battle. As I recall, Osse didn't want it to go back to ME, and resisted, with the result that Ireland broke off of it. That version has a truly sad ending IMHO, with Eriol/Aelfwine acting from the best intentions to provoke the Last Battle before time (Tolkien seems to have come to appreciate the incongruity of the Last Battle having alread occurred but Arda remaining in our time and made this a lesser battle, ultimately) and consequently screwing up the whole thing.

In that version what would become the Quenta Silmarillion is represented as being hastily concluded by Eriol/Aelfwine as Men sack a burning and pillaged T’na and the Eldar of Eressea fade even as those of Middle-Earth, providing the basis for the later Celtic legends (which Tolkien states the Celts have all screwed up, and the Angles, who arrived much later than the Celts, preserve best.) IMHO, it's the best argument for not accepting all of HoME as canonical.

The gap thingy is, I believe, the Valacirya, through which the light of Valinor passed to Eressea and thence the rest of Arda.