Fëanor

In the novel of J.R.R. Tolkien, Fëanor is largest of the Elfes to have been born, with Lúthien and Galadriel.

Fëanor was the only son of Finwë and Míriel. His/her mother, exhausted by her design, withdrew herself and ends up giving up her body from to go away in Mandos, being thus the first of the Elves to die. But Finwë wanted remarier, which involved long debates among the Valar: was it correct to leave Finwë remarier whereas Míriel could réincarner? This one having refused to find a body, asserting its lassitude, Valar authorized Finwë to contract a new marriage. This one chooses Indis, a close relationship (sister or niece, the traditions diverges) of Ingwë, the king of the Vanyar. Little liked Fëanor, this one gave two wire (Fingolfin and Finarfin) and several girls to Finwë.

Fëanor had many talents. Gifted linguist (he is the creator of the Tengwar and the founder of the school of Lambengolmor), he was also a talented craftsman: the Palantír I are its creations, but most important of those are the Silmaril S, the three invaluable jewels which contained in them the light of the two trees of Valinor. When those were stolen by Melkor (which it named then Morgoth, Enemy Black), it took the head of those of the Ñoldor which left to defy it out of Ground of the Medium, Exilés (which was cursed by Mandos). Those did not form however an united front behind Fëanor: much of them had lined up under the banners of Fingolfin, which followed his/her half-brother by honesty. The relations between them two were tended, so that whereas Ñoldor arrived in front of the Helcaraxë, apparently insuperable obstacle, Fëanor betray his/her half-brother, making veil towards the Ground of the Medium with its partisans alone aboard ships concealed with the Teleri, that it set fire to then.

Followed a battle between the forces of Fëanor and the Orques of Morgoth, which were easily put in rout by the new arrivals. The rage of Fëanor was such as it pursued the runaways through all the plain of Ard-galen, decided well to enter Angband and to take again Silmarils. But by doing this, it moved away too much from its troops, and it was its loss: encircled by the Orcs and the Balrog S, he perishes with the hand of their lord Gothmog.

Fëanor had seven wire with Nerdanel, girl of Mahtan celebrates it blacksmith who was also the Master of Fëanor. The elder one of them is Maedhros, the others are Maglor the large poet (who launched the Silmaril last in the sea), Celegorm the Hunter, Curufin, whose son Celebrimbor will forge later the Anneaux of Being able; Caranthir Black; Amrod and Amras, twins, and often quoted together.

His/her father named first of all Fëanor simply Finwë , adding later the prefix Curu- when the gifts of his/her son became manifest. However, his/her mother gave him the name of Fëanáro which means “Spirit of fire” in Quenya. The translation Sindarin E of this name was Faenor , and Fëanor forms it comes from a confusion between the two versions, probably due to a copyist accustomed to the quenya, where the Diphtongue ea was current whereas ae was theoretically impossible ( The Peoples off Middle-earth , p. 343).

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