• Right side - King Thingol & Queen Melian hand in hand with Melian releasing her protective magic for the realm. 
• When Thingol passed from Middle-earth, Melian followed, and her protective enchantments on Doriath faded. 
• Top Row - Left: Cirdan, Teleri kinsman of Thingol, in the Havens
• Middle: Luthien & Beren
• Right: Luthien & Daeron the minstrel and lore-master of Thingol’s court
• Daeron held unrequited love for Luthien
• Below: Lady Galadriel & Lord Celeborn, who met in Doriath.  Celeborn is a kinsman of King Thingol, his grandnephew.
• Central - Doomed Turin in shadow, foster-son of Thingol, in the dragonhelm with his beloved friend Beleg Strongbow
• In flames - Shadow Thingol holding the Nauglamir and being slain by the Dwarves for it after they argued about who had the right to the necklace.
• Below: the second kinslaying for the Silmaril with Celegorm, Caranthir, & Curufin crossing swords with King Dior, all four were slain. They are overshadowed by the Silmaril.
• Right: Luthien wearing the Nauglamir with the Silmaril in her mortal passing.  After her death, it was passed to her son, Dior.  The Silmaril was saved from the Sack of Doriath by Dior’s daughter, Elwing, who fled to the Havens of Sirion with it.

He [Thingol] took thought therefore how he should make for himself a kingly dwelling, and a place that should be strong, if evil were to awake again in Middle-earth; and he sought the aid and counsel of the Dwarves of Belegost.  They gave it willingly for they were unwearied in those days and eager for new works . . . Melian taught them much that they were eager to learn, and Thingol rewarded them with many fair pearls.  These Cirdan gave to him, for they were got in great number in the shallow waters about the Isle of Balar; but the Naugrim had not before seen their like, and they held them dear.  One there was as great as a dove’s egg, and its sheen was as starlight on the foam of the sea; Nimphelos it was named, and the chieftain of the Dwarves of Belegost prized it above a mountain of wealth.

Therefore the Naugrim laboured long and gladly for Thingol, and devised for him mansions after the fashion of their people, delved deep in the earth.  Where the Esgalduin flowed down, and parted Neldoreth from Region, there rose in the midst of the forest a rokcy hill, and the river ran at its feet.  There they made the gates of the hall of Thingol, and they built a bridge of stone over the river, by which alone the gates could be entered.  Beyond the gate wide passages ran down the high halls and chambers far below that were hewn in the living stone, so many and so great that that dwelling was named Menegroth, the Thousdand Caves.

But the Elves also had part in that labour, and Elves and Dwarves together, each with their own skill, there wrought out the visions of Melian, images of the wonder and beauty of Valinor beyond the sea.  The pillars of Menegroth were hewn in the likeness of the beeches of Oromë, stock, bough, and leaf, and they were lit with lanterns of gold.  The nightingales sang there as in the gardens of Lorien; and there were fountains of silver, basins of marble, and floors of many-coloured stones.  Carven figures of beasts and birds there ran upon the walls, or climbed upon the pillars, or peered among the branches entwined with many flowers.  And as the years passed Melian and her maidens filled the halls with woven hangings wherein could be read the deeds of the Valar, and many things that had befallen in Arda since its beginning, and shadows of things that were yet to be.  That was the fairest dwelling of any king that has ever been east of the Sea.  (The Silmarillion ~Of the Sindar pp. 92-3)