Finrod

In the novel of Tolkien, Finrod , called Finrod Felagund or Finrod Honest the , was the oldest son of Finarfin.

Biography

Finrod the Honest one was the oldest son of Finarfin, itself Prince of the Noldor. Like all the children of Finarfin, they loved their cousins of the branch of Fingolfin like their own brothers. During the years of the Great Prosperity, it fell in love with Amarië with the Vanyar, but it did not follow it in the Exile. There remained to him faithful in thought and flesh until its death. Thus, when Fëanor made its speech in front of Noldor de Tuna, exhorting them to leave Valinor, it was found only little, following the example his father, in the so violent words of their uncle. It little is thus only convinced that it followed the large majority of Noldor in their walk out of the continent in the continuation of the people in service of Finarfin.

Like all people of Finarfin, it did not take part in the massacre of Alqualondë, where people of Fëanor killed their cousins Teleri. At the time of the Curse of Mandos, while his/her father turned back, energy to seek the Forgiveness of Manwë, him, like wire of Finarfin, continued walk, like his/her Orodreth brother, to supervise wire of Fëanor and to bring the reason like word in the rows of Noldor. When Fëanor, arrived out of Ground of the Medium, burns the vaissaux ones, it passes the Helcaraxë.

It joined with its people the lake Mithrim, and accepts the reconciliation between the two houses pronounced by Fingon. Twenty years later it took part in the Festival of the Meeting, Mereth Aderthad.

“ When thirty years were past, one of wire of Fingolfin, Turgon, left Nevrast where he lived, and came to take his friend Finrod on the island of Tol Sirion. Together they descended the river, not without supervising at the beginning the Mountains of North, and the night surprised them with the lake of the Twilight, on the banks of the river where they fell asleep with the clearness of a sky of summer. But Ulmo, which went up the current, threw on them a deep disturbed sleep of heavy dreams, and they kept concern of it after their alarm clock without in speaking neither one nor the other because they had a clear memory of it, each one believing that Ulmo had been addressed to him only. From now on it Malayan did not leave them more, as a presentiment from what was going to come: they often ventured in the unexplored areas to seek places suitable to be strengthened, as if they thought of having to prepare for disastrous days and to guarantee itself. ”

When, later, Finrod with his/her sister Galadriel, was the host of Thingol to Menegroth, it was filled with wonder at the wonders of the Capital of Doriath, and it wished to have one day such a glorious and majestic citadel.

“ It opened its heart with Thingol, its dream told him, and the King spoke to him about the Narog river, his boxed throats and the caves which gave on western bank, very escarpée. When Finrod left, the King gave him guides to lead it to this place still almost ignored. Then, Finrod went to the Caves of Narog and made there build rooms and arsenals with the manner of Menegroth, and it called this fortified town Nargothrond. The Dwarves of the Blue Mountains helped with work and were largely rewarded for it, because Finrod had brought of Tirion more treasures than any other prince of Noldor. And they also made for him Nauglamír, the Collar of the Dwarves, most famous of works which they achieved formerly. A gold collar, where innumerable stones of Valinor were crimped, which had the capacity to rest on that which carried it as slightly as a linen thread and to keep same elegance and the same grace on everyone. ”

Then Finrod went to live with Nargothrond with its long continuation, and Naugrim (Dwarves) called it Felagund, That which digs the Caves .

The Siège of Angband was then established, and in the middle of the master key of Sirion, between Dorthonion and the Mountains of the Shade, Finrod built a tower of guard on Tol Sirion. It called it Minas Tirith, and when it went to live Nargothrond, it entrusted the guard of it to his brother Orodreth.

The kingdom of Nargothrond also went to the west of the Narog to the Nenning river which is thrown in the sea with Eglarest, and Finrod became the suzerain of all the Elves of Beleriand since the sea until Sirion, except those of Falas. It is there that the Sindar lived which liked still to traverse the ocean and their Prince Círdan, the manufacturer of ships. Finrod and Círdan were friends and allies, and the ports of Brithombar and Eglarest were rebuilt thanks to the assistance of Noldor. Their large walls hid beautiful cities and ports with quays and piers of stone. On the course which prolonged Eglarest towards the west, Finrod built the tower of Barad Nimras to supervise the Western seas, but the future proved its uselessness, because never Morgoth did not try to build ships nor to carry the war on the ocean.

During the years of relative peaces gained by the head office of Angband, It often went in Ossiriand, because it enormously liked to travel, and it gained the friendship of the Green Elves. And a day that it was with Menegroth, Thingol, learning the history from the Exile, split anger against him. But then his/her brother Angrod, whose heart burned resentment towards wire of Fëanor, racontat at which point the wire of Finarfin had been handled by Fëanor. Then Thingol says to them that it would not close its door to them, because it included/understood how they had been bernés. But as from this moment, prohibited Thingol that one spoke the Language about Noldor with Doriath, and for this day, one has called the Quenya the Prohibited Language.

“ When it had run out three hundred years and more since the arrival of Noldor with Beleriand, at the time of the Long Peace, Finrod Felagund, Seigneur of Nargothrond, was to remain in the east of Sirion when it went to drive out with Maglor and Maedhros, wire of Fëanor. Then he wearied hunting and left all alone towards the mountains Ered Lindon which he saw shining with far. II the road of the Dwarves began again and passed Gelion to the ford of Sarn Athrad before going to the south by going up the course of Ascar and reaching the north of Ossiriand.

In a valley with the foot of the mountains, in lower part of the sources of Thalos, it saw one evening of the lights and heard with far as voices which sang. II was astonished largely, because the Green Elves of this country did not employ the fire, either which they did not sing the night. It feared initially that of Orcs had made a descent since North but understood that it of it was nothing as soon as he had approached, because the singers employed a language which he had never heard, neither at the Dwarves nor at Orcs. And Felagund, being held without noise with the shade of the trees, plunged its glances in the camping and could contemplate strange people. It was there part of the parents and following of Bëor the Old one, as one called it later, a chief among the Human ones. After having wandered during eternities in the East, it had finally led to them his beyond the Blue Mountains, the first men to enter the country of Beleriand, and they sang because they were happy, that they believed to have escaped in all the dangers and to have found a ground where the fear was unknown. The Felagund Lord looked at them and felt his heart quivering of love for them, but there remained hidden in the trees until they all were deadened. Then it passed in the middle of the beings seized by the sleep and sat down close to their dying fire that nobody kept. It seized a coarse toothing-stone that Bëor had dropped and played on it a music such as human ears had never heard some, because no one still had not taught them this art, except the Black Elves of the wild grounds. the men woke up, they listened to Felagund to sing and to play of the toothing-stone and each one believed that it was in some dream enchanted before seeing that all his/her companions also listened, but none moved nor did not speak as much as Felagund had not finished, so much the music was beautiful and such was the magic of this song. The words of the king of the Elves were impressed of wisdom and those which listened to it in became wiser, because what its song said, the creation of Arda, the happiness of Aman before the shades of the sea, was offered to their eyes with clearness of a vision and the language of the Elves was made hear with each one according to what its spirit could include/understand.

Thus the Human ones called king Felagund, that of Eldar which they met in first: Nóm, i.e. Wisdom in the language of these people, and that they named its people according to him, Nómin, the Wise ones. In truth they believed initially that Felagund was one of these Valar of which they had intended to say that they lived far in the west, and some say that it was even the goal of their voyage. But Felagund remained among them to teach truth knowledge to them, they liked it and took it for their lord and remained then always faithful to the house of Finarfin. ”

To the battle of the sudden Flame (Dagor Bragollach), at the end of the Head office of Angband, Felagund would have fallen if it were not thanks to the Barahir brave man who cut through a path to him, losing by there many its warriors. Later, when Beren required its assistance, whereas the wire of Fëanor had found refuge with Nargothrond, it took the defense of the son of Barahir.

“ One evening of autumn, Felagund and Beren left Nargothrond with their ten companions and went up Narog until its source with the Falls of Ivrin. Close to the Mountains of the Shade they met a troop of Orcs which they killed until the last by attacking their camping of night and they took their weapons and their equipment. Felagund the USA of its art so that their bodies and their faces take the semblance of Orcs and it is under this disguise that they continued towards north and arrived in the Passing of the West, between Ered Wethrin and the heights of Taur-Na-Fuin. Sauron saw them top of its tower and it was taken of a doubt because they hastened without same stopping to tell what they had made, as were to do it all the servants of Morgoth who passed by there. Then it tightened a ambush to them and made them bring in front of him.

Ainsi began the famous test which opposed Sauron to Felagund. Because Felagund made attack of magic songs with Sauron and the capacity of the King was large, but Sauron had the top, as it is known as in the Lay one of Leithian. Sauron stripped them their masks and they were held naked in front of him, frightened. But if it had revealed their true nature, Sauron could not discover their names nor their goal. Then it threw them at the bottom of a well black and dumb like a pit and threatened them to put them at dead with greatest cruelties if one of them did not acknowledge the truth to him. From time to time they saw two eyes shining in the night and a werewolf came to devour one as of their, but none betrays its lord.

Beren and Felagund was at the bottom of the prison of Sauron. All their companions had died and Sauron wanted to take Felagund only in the last. It had understood that it was very wise and very powerful Noldo and that it was the keystone of their forwarding. But when the wolf sought Beren, the King gathered all his forces, made jump his bonds and threw himself on the animal. II could kill it with its hands and its teeth but itself was wounded with death, and he addressed his last words to Beren: " I now will find a long rest in the caves out of the time which is beyond the sea and of the Mountains of Aman. It will be necessary so a long time before one re-examines me among Noldor which I am unaware of if the fate will put to us again face to face in the life or death, because our people do not have the same destiny. Good-bye! "

Thus died Finrod Felagund, the Honest one, oldest son of Finarfin.

“ They highest buried the body of Felagund on the point of its island (Tol Sirion), finally removed from the evil, and its tomb green, that of the son of Finarfin, just of the princes of the Elves, remained inviolate until the ground itself was broken, transformed, submerged under the invasion of the sea. ”

Contribution to the philosophy of the Earth of the Medium

Finrod is one of the two principal protagonists of the Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth (the Speech of Finrod and Andreth), a major philosophical document on the Edain, their role in their Creation, their destiny after death, etc, which lead to the Conte of Adanel, the only existing account of the Fall of the Men. This dialog was published in Morgoth' S Ring .

House of Finarfin

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