While he never really liked his brothers and sisters, through the machinations of Melkor this turns into a near fratricide and through the lies of Melkor his relationship with the Valar is completely ruined. Finwe near his wife Miriel Serinde, by Steamey. The seven sons of Fëanor were Maedhros the tall; Maglor the mighty singer, whose voice was heard far over land and sea; Celegorm the fair, and Caranthir the dark; Curufin the crafty, who inherited most his father’s skill of hand; and the youngest Amrod and Amras, who were twin brothers, alike in mood and face. The line of Fëanor utterly ended, nothing was left of it.

The simplistic all encompassing evil bad guys is regulated to just a few terrible authors. [2], http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/House_of_F%C3%ABanor. Something interesting came to my attention while checking Eldarion’s ancestry: he descends from the high kings of the Teleri in both Aman and Middle-earth (Olwe and Elwe), of the Vanyar (through Indis and Elenwe - mother of Idril), from the lords of the three houses of the Edain, and from the houses of Fingolfin and Finarfin of the Noldor.

That's not to say you have to be a LOTR scholar or Tolkien academic to post or enjoy this subreddit, but that we'd prefer not to have image macros or movie gifs filling up this forum. Who among us hasn't been consumed by their own greed and pride, threatened family members with weapons, assumed that we were godlike, led a massacre of our kin for not giving us something we wanted and needed (even while having made the same exact decision previously and being allowed to escape with our lives), led our kin on long and perilous roads on which many died, deserted said kin, and then broke our word to them thereby leaving them for dead? I tried to make the generations distinct (as in, all in the same generation are in the same column, i.e. After a period of mourning he married again. And Fëanor had … nosse). >< I haven’t read the Silmarillion in a while. The Elves however, were suspicious of this call and were afraid and so Oromë chose ambassadors to represent the three Elven-kindreds: the Vanyar, the Ñoldor, and the Teleri, to represent their kindreds and to return and report what they had saw. He was a great friend of Elu Thingol, the King of Doriath. The Silmarilion was never that type of story. Since the Vanyar really didn't fuck with Melkor when he was turned loose in Valinor, maybe they don't have all that. More posts from the tolkienfans community. The scalar abandoned one of their greatest and most hurt children, the Valar could’ve all marched on Morgoth any time they wanted to and burnt him to the ground, instead they watched and did nothing as their children were slain, tortured, murdered etc by the worst person to possibly ever exist. He was the father of Fëanor, Fingolfin, Finarfin, Írimë, and Findis. Fëanor was one of the greatest, and certainly the most skilled, of the Noldor, but his burning anger at the loss of his Silmarils led him to commit acts that would greatly diminish the influence of his house among his people. In the first drafts of the genealogy, Finwë had four sons: the youngest was named Finrun, but he was dropped after that, thus Finrod (later Finarfin) was Finwë's youngest son from then on.

I like to think Maglors spirit still wanders the coastline of Middle Earth. How can you tell if you have line of sight for a shot prior to taking it? As founder of the House of Finwë, he and his first and second wives were the sires of the three noble houses of Fëanor, Fingolfin, Finarfin who afterwards ruled great realms in Middle-earth, and succeeded him in Aman.

Finvain (renamed Irimë) was moved to after Fingolfin, thus Finarfin was once again the youngest child of Finwë. Yet there still is this sense of “what if?” What if, say. Instead, the overlordship passed to the House of Finarfin in Aman with the support of the Valar, and the House of Fingolfin in Middle-earth when Maedhros repented the deeds of father after being rescued from torment on Thangorodrim by his good friend Fingon. This act was the catalyst that led to the Revolt of the Ñoldor. Elrond and Celebrían are from different generations, hence the large difference in placement. This subreddit is a space for the Tolkien nerds of reddit to debate and discuss the whole Tolkien mythos. I think you have a point here, and I'm just going to piggyback here: Similar to Melkor (who started as the greatest of the Valar, and ended as little more than a general afraid to go to battle himself) there's a gradual "lessening" of Feanor throughout his part of the Silmarillion. Finwë was the first High King of the Ñoldor who led his people on the journey from Middle-earth to Valinor in the blessed realm of Aman.

13:20 Why is Fëanor obsessed with light? He did what he thought was right, people fail all the time and their is no shame in that. Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. He also begun to suspect his half-brother was trying to usurp him as the favored son, and made trouble in Tirion drawing his sword on Fingolfin. When the Vala Oromë found the Elves during his travels in Middle-earth, he loved them and urged them to travel with him to Valinor to see its wondrous beauty. Elros and Elrond were fostered by Maglor and Maedhros, though. In the Etymologies, the Noldorin name of the House of Fëanor was Nos Feanor (cf.
This is a neat catch—the Doom of Mandos or the Prophesy of the North persists into the fourth age and beyond. But even as the "nice" son of Feanor, he's too far gone to ever seek that kind of repentance. And eventually, Finwë and his people the Ñoldor arrived in Valinor directly behind the Vanyar. Idril, daughter of Turgon is placed only after Amras, Turgon’s cousin.)

The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/House_of_F%C3%ABanor?oldid=236835.
We're just a bit stuck on this matter because don't know much about the Vanyar lineages. Elros and Elrond were fostered by Maglor and Maedhros, though. Tolkien’s epic book The Silmarillion, Fëanor was the most powerful elf who ever lived, so powerful that the dark lord Melkor was afraid of his might. I didn’t elaborate on Tuor and Elwing’s families as those would have been too long - they are named as House of Hador and House of Thingol (which includes Beren-Lúthien) respectively. His fearlessness and conviction (and love of his father) is inspiring, to the point that many readers attempt to separate those components of Fëanor from his threat to Fingolfin, the kinslaying at Alqualondë, the burning of the the ships, and the terrible path he takes which becomes a curse on all his kin.

© Valve Corporation. His second son Maglor survived beyond the War of Wrath, wandering the shores of Middle-earth, but his fate is unknown. No other character - save the Hurin and his son - has lost as much as Fëanor has. Tolkien was very consistent with his themes. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, When the Ring-bearers came, to live out the name. The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Characters in The History of Middle-earth, https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Finw%C3%AB?oldid=250536. Like Terry Goodkind. The author of this thread has indicated that this post answers the original topic. For this he was banished from the city, but Finwë loved his elder son greatly and shared his exile and went with him northward and built the city/fortress of Formenos.

Ashamed? Feanor did nothing wrong. When we first meet him he is not the "Fëanor" that people often speak of. [1] Despite the events of the First Age, the house did survive into the Second Age under the leadership of Celebrimbor, son of Curufin in Eregion until it was destroyed by Sauron in SA 1697.[2].