When the appeal of E?endil reached the shores of Aman, it was E?w?who first greeted him. When War of Wrath, leading the Vanyar.
When Morgoth the Black Foe was defeated, E?w?took the two remaining Silmarils and held them for safekeeping. But at last the two remaining Sons of Feanor took them and fled, yet E?w?did not let them be slain.