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Fingolfin smote the gates of Angband and challenged Morgoth to single combat. Though Morgoth feared Fingolfin (of all the Valar, Morgoth was the only one to know fear), he had to accept the challenge—or face shame in the eyes of his servants. Seven times Fingolfin wounded Morgoth and seven times Morgoth cried in pain, and seven times the host ...
Fictional character Fëanor Tolkien character Fëanor (left) threatens Fingolfin Middle-earth artwork by Tom Loback, 2007 In-universe information Aliases Fëanáro, Curufinwë Race Elves Book(s) The Silmarillion (1977) Fëanor is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion. He creates the Tengwar script, the palantír seeing-stones, and the three Silmarils, the skilfully ...
Fëanor's half-brothers Finarfin and Fingolfin: mother is of "'senior' race", Vanyar "Superior" to Fëanor "in restraint and generosity" Finarfin's children Finrod and Galadriel: mother is of "junior" race, Teleri: Relatively sympathetic Fingolfin's children, e.g. Aredhel "mixed Noldor/Vanyar" "Reckless" Fëanor's sons: pure Noldor: Aggressive ...
She bears him two sons: Fingolfin and Finarfin, and two daughters: Findis and Írimë, their names echoing his. [T 3] Fëanor comes to resent Finwë's other sons, his half-brothers; there is constant strife between them. Fëanor makes the Silmarils, three star-like jewels that embody some of the light of the Two Trees of Valinor. [T 3] [T 4] [T 5]
The Falmari resisted, and Fëanor's Noldor fought and killed them in the First Kinslaying, a battle of Elves upon Elves. In addition, Fëanor left behind his half-brother Fingolfin's Noldor, who also wanted to return. Fingolfin, furious, was obliged to make the perilous journey on foot via the Helcaraxë, the Grinding Ice of the far north.
Kings of the Noldor in Valinor High Kings of the Noldor in exile in Middle-earth The Sons of Fëanor are (in the order of their birth) Maedhros, Maglor, Celegorm, Curufin, Caranthir, Amras, and Amrod. [T 19] [T 20] The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey comments that the family tree of the House of Finwë is "essential", as Tolkien allocates character by ancestry ; thus, Fëanor is pure Noldor, and ...
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The Silmarillion (Quenya: [silmaˈrilːiɔn]) is a book consisting of a collection of myths [a] [T 1] and stories in varying styles by the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien.It was edited, partly written, and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977, assisted by Guy Gavriel Kay, who became a fantasy author.