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4	!!The House of Fëanor
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7	Fëanor was the son of Finwë, King of the Ñoldorin Elves. His spirit was so fiery that the strain of giving birth to him eventually killed his mother. He was the greatest of the Elves in craftsmanship, and one of the most knowledgeable. Unfortunately, he was also extremely proud and arrogant. Fëanor swore revenge on Morgoth when Morgoth murdered his father and stole the Silmarils (holy jewels) he had made, and led the Ñoldor out of Valinor into Middle-earth to fight him, slaughtering the Teleri to steal their ships, and betraying his half-brothers' people by abandoning them. Fëanor was killed in battle by Gothmog shortly after arriving in Beleriand; his rage was so great that his spirit incinerated his body as it left.
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9	* AccidentalMurder: His son Amrod wanted to sail back home. Knowing this, Fëanor burned his ship -- later to hear that Amrod was in it at the time. [[{{Retcon}} This did not happen in the 1977]] ''Silmarillion''.
10	* AloofBigBrother: To Fingolfin and Finarfin. He wanted nothing at all to do with them.
11	* AndIMustScream: Because of Fëanor's crimes and/or refusal to repent them, after his death, he was imprisoned in the [[TheLifestream Halls of Mandos]] until the end of the world.
12	* AntiHero: One of the best examples of a BrokenAce in Literature, his actions leave his tribe of Elves cursed for centuries and though he was an enemy of Morgoth he led the first killing of Elf by Elf over some ships he was trying to steal.
13	* TheAtoner: According to information about the [[FinalBattle Dagor Dagorath]], Fëanor's spirit will be freed in time for the last battle against darkness, and will give the Silmarils to Yavanna to break them (some say he himself will break them) so that the Two Trees can be revived.
14	* BadassBookworm: One of his earliest achievements was when he ''invented'' the modern Elvish alphabet. It just goes on from there.
15	* BarredFromTheAfterlife: Inverted. Normally, Elves are not supposed to truly die -- even if they are slain in battle, they return to Arda in a reincarnated form. However, due to the depths of his evil deeds, Mandos denied this fate to Fëanor, and when he fell to Gothmog, his disembodied spirit took residence in the Halls of Mandos thereafter.
16	* TheBerserker: Fatally so -- see Determinator.
17	* BrainsEvilBrawnGood: Fëanor was the most ingenious Elf that ever lived while Fingolfin was the strongest and most valiant. {{Downplayed\|Trope}}; [[BadassBookworm Fëanor was no weakling]], and [[GeniusBruiser Fingolfin was no fool]].
18	* BrokenAce: He may have been [[TallDarkAndHandsome the handsome]] [[WarriorPrince crown prince]] who improved the work of previous [[{{Omniglot}} linguistics]] and [[UltimateBlacksmith jewel smiths]] while still a youngster, invented a new writing system to be used by all races from there on, and created [[CrystalBall the Middle-earth internet]], but Fëanor was still a wreck of raging personal issues waiting to burst.
19	* ByronicHero: Fëanor didn't give a crap about anybody's concepts of morality, not even the archangels appointed by God to oversee the universe. He single-mindedly insisted on ''his'' way until it killed him.
20	* CainAndAbel: He was the Cain to his half-brothers Fingolfin's and Finarfin's split role of Abel. He threatened to murder Fingolfin in cold blood and later abandoned him to cross the Grinding Ice on foot.
21	%%* CantTakeCriticism: Feänor's most prominent flaw.
22	* TheCharmer: Convinced most of the Noldor to follow him to Middle-earth to get revenge on Morgoth and made his seven sons swear an oath with him to reclaim the Silmarils. Can come across as a deconstruction, as he led the Elves engaging into a Kinslaying and left them cursed for centuries.
23	* ConspiracyTheorist: He believed that the sound change of ''th'' > ''s'' in Quenya was a conspiracy of the Valar against him and his mother, and used it as a political litmus test in his feud over his brothers' (equally nonexistent) plots against him. Ironically, most elven scholars believed that the change was a mistake, but Fëanor made it so political that he turned every sympathetic ear against him.
24	* CreateYourOwnVillain: Fëanor believed that the Valar were plotting against him and the Ñoldor and that his brothers planned to take his place. This caused him to antagonize them, which by time and enough [[KickTheDog Dog Kicking]] on Fëanor's part turned them against him for real. Ultimately, the Ñoldor were ruined and (temporarily) abandoned by the Valar, and the House of Fëanor lost not only its place as the leading House of the Ñoldor but any place it had amongst the Elves at all.
25	* DecoyProtagonist: A sizable portion of the first third of the story deals with Fëanor, his accomplishments and sins, but then he dies immediately after he gets to Middle Earth. Downplayed, as it's clear the story has rotating perspectives.
26	* DespairEventHorizon: At Finwë's death and the theft of his Silmarils. He ran off screaming into the night once he got the news, and many in Valinor thought he would [[DrivenToSuicide take his own life.]]
27	* {{Determinator}}: To a point. He and his house made it to Beleriand after breaking the "necessary" eggs, dispersing Morgoth's host in "The Battle Under the Stars". But he wasn't finished, and just ''had'' to attack Angband itself. He was mortally wounded in combat with multiple Balrogs... Balrogs whom he had stupidly ''[[TooDumbToLive chased]]'' while they were in retreat with the Orc army, and then refused to flee when they turned to attack him.
28	* TheDreaded: Fëanor in his wrath sent a host of Balrogs, corrupted Aniur, to flee for their lives, and had Morgoth himself literally cowering behind the walls of his own fortress in genuine fear despite being the mightiest among the Valar!
29	* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas:
30	** He loved both his parents, but it was the death of his father that drove him over the DespairEventHorizon: "For his father was dearer to him than the Light of Valinor or the peerless work of his hands; and who among sons, of Elves or of Men, have held their fathers of greater worth?"
31	** He also reveres his dead mother to the point that (in ''Literature/TheHistoryOfMiddleEarth'') he thinks a consonant shift in the Noldorin dialect is intolerable because it results in people mispronouncing her name.
32	* FallenHero: He was the mightiest, most skilled, most puissant of all the elven race... and the source of their greatest woes. See YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood.
33	* FetusTerrible: While not a monster in the womb, Fëanor's birth sucked out all of his mother's life energy, causing her to fall victim to a (somewhat belated) DeathByChildbirth. Then he quickly grew up to become [[TheParagonAlwaysRebels something great and terrible]].
34	* ForScience: He wandered around Valinor seeking the unknown boundaries of knowledge.
35	* FreudianExcuse: Fëanor not only had the luck of being born into the only broken family in a PhysicalHeaven where everyone else was happy, but he was also the ''cause'' of his family becoming unhappy [[DeathByChildbirth simply by being born]].
36	* FreudianTrio: With his brothers. He is ''clearly'' the Id, hot-blooded and impulsive, caring only for his own desires.
37	* GeneralRipper: Gained a deep paranoia and disdain for his superiors and even for his own soldiers, at one point leaving many of them to die because of them "not being loyal enough". Everyone else was a coward or a traitor, and only he was doing what was right... so he thought.
38	* GreenEyedMonster: Jealous of his father's affection (despite being and remaining the favorite), Fëanor never gave his stepmother a chance, and he despised his half-siblings before they were even born.
39	* HappilyMarried: Implied to have been this with Nerdanel, at least for a while, having married her based on shared interests and implicitly for her mind -- she was considered plain by Elven standards, she was a blacksmith like him and good enough that he didn't totally disregard her work as he did pretty much everyone else, and he actually listened to her... up to a point.
40	* HeartbrokenBadass: After his father's death.
41	* HeelRealization: After realizing Morgoth lied to him about his half-brother Fingolfin attempting to overthrow him, Feanor does apologize to Fingolfin at a festival, and Fingolfin just says it's water under the bridge. Sadly, this goes way downhill when Feanor, after Morgoth killed their father Finwe and stole the Silmaril jewels, later abandons Fingolfin and the Nolder elves not loyal to his reckless cause in Valinor, making them cross the dangerous ice bridge of Helcaraxe and forming an intense divide between the Nolder until Fingolfin's eldest son, Fingon, rescued Feanor's eldest son, Maedhros, from Angband and created some measure of respect between the family (though Feanor died earlier fighting Morgoth's balrogs).
42	* HeroicBSOD: Thanks to Melkor, who else. When he hears the news of what has happened in Formenos, he falls down to the ground unable to speak, then he curses Melkor by renaming him Morgoth ("the Dark Enemy"), and runs into the night, crying. The other Elves seriously worried he'd become suicidal.
43	* HeWhoFightsMonsters: He rebelled against the legitimate kinship of Manwë, massacred the Teleri, abandoned 2/3 of the Noldor forces because they were not loyal to him, and accidentally murdered his son.
44	* HiddenDepths: Say what you like about him, but he was not shallow -- he married Nerdanel, who was apparently comparatively plain as Elves went (enough that it was worth noting as part of why marrying her was a surprise), and a talented [[TheBlacksmith blacksmith]] in her own right, who was just about the only person who he ever listened to. While it eventually went wrong, there's every indication that for a while they were HappilyMarried.
45	* HotBlooded: Oh so very much. His name doesn't mean "Spirit of Fire" for nothing.
46	* {{Hypocrite}}: He refuses to break open the Silmarils by saying that, like the Trees that Yavanna needs them to restore, they are his own life's greatest work and he could never create their like again. When the Teleri use that argument to deny him the use of their beautiful swan-ships, Fëanor not only commits murder to steal him (as Morgoth did with the Silmarils), he ''destroys'' the ships once they've served his purpose.
47	* IGaveMyWord: The "Oath of Fëanor", swearing by Ilúvatar, Manwë, Varda, and Mount Taniquetil to reclaim the Silmarils, no matter the cost in other peoples' lives.
48	* IncestSubtext: There are definite subtextual implications that he may have harboured ''less'' than pure intentions towards Galadriel, the daughter of his half-brother Finarfin. He was so enamored with her beautiful silver-golden hair that he begged her three times for a strand and each time she denied him, as in Fëanor, Galadriel (who was gifted with foresight and the ability to 'peer into the minds of others') could see only darkness.
49	* InsufferableGenius: The most brilliant Elven craftsman ever to live, and ''very much'' aware of it.
50	* IronicEcho: When Fëanor gave his speech to convince the Ñoldor to go to war against Morgoth, he wound up repeating several of Morgoth's lies. By that point, he probably believed them.
51	* ItOnlyWorksOnce: States to the Valar that if the Silmarils are destroyed, even he could not recreate them.
52	* {{Jerkass}}: His behavior towards the other houses of the Ñoldor was obnoxious and threatening even before he started murdering Elves.
53	* LonersAreFreaks: While having a close relationship with his father and a family of his own, Fëanor had certain antisocial tendencies, something that Tolkien often gave to his more edgy characters. He worked alone, accepted no advice from anyone save Nerdanel, often kept his findings secret from his colleagues, didn't live with his father's new family or apparently not at any fixed point, but wandered around the far reaches of Valinor with his sons...
54	* LostTechnology: ''And'' Lost Scientific Knowledge in general, thanks to him keeping much of his superior knowledge to himself rather than sharing it with his colleagues. This is why nobody knows how the Fëanorian Lamps work or has extensive knowledge of the Valarin language.
55	* MadScientist: Fëanor created the Silmarils to capture the light of Valinor. In some versions, it's said he originally wrought them with the wish to make sure their light would live on forever. Yet later he refused to give them up to ''save'' the Two Trees of Valinor, adding to the ironic tragedy of it all.
56	* MarriedToTheJob: Varies. Sometimes Fëanor was absolutely devoured by his work, [[MoodSwinger but then lost interest]] and dropped the project without a second thought. Because of this, many of his works were left unfinished.
57	* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: Averted. It's stated that Fëanor is actually his father's favourite child.
58	* MissingMom: Tolkien loved giving this to his darker characters, an echo of his own similar trauma. Originally -- and in the published ''Silmarillion'' -- Míriel died soon after giving birth to Fëanor, and it's specifically mentioned he had never seen her. In a later version, Míriel lived on for some time until she gave into her sickness.
59	* MurderIsTheBestSolution: You hear rumours that your half-brother wants to usurp your place as the heir and your father's favourite? Wear armor and threaten him with your sword in front of the whole court. [[BigBad Morgoth]] kills your father, steals your precious Silmarils, and flees to Middle-earth? Start the rebellion with your fellow Noldor against him and his "accomplices", The Valar. The Teleri don't want to give your army their ships, which are needed to cross the sea between Valinor and Middle-earth? Massacre them! The ships are only enough to carry the part of your army that is loyal exclusively to you? Cross the sea, leave other part of the army, lead by your aforementioned half-brother, and burn the ships! The enemy flees before your army to their fortress? Chase them! Kill them all! You lie dying of your wounds? Order your sons to fulfill the Oath you gave to get the Silmarils back no matter the cost.
60	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Not necessarily a full scale villain, but whether Fëanor knew it or not, leading his people to Middle Earth saved the native Elves and the Dwarves from extermination and provided the race of Men a valuable ally in the face of a formidable enemy. Even if Thingol and his people could just stay hidden in Doriath indefinitely, everyone outside Melian's Girdle including the race of Men would be doomed, to be eternally trapped under Morgoth’s shadow for him to twist and corrupt if not for the Coming of the Ñoldor out of the west. Plus it was one of Fëanor‘s Silmarilli that allowed Earendil to successfully reach Valinor and persuade the Valar to both forgive the Ñoldor for their transgressions and to come to the aide of both Elves and Men which finally convinced them to move into open conflict with Melkor resulting in him being imprisoned again, this time for good.
61	* NoBodyLeftBehind: His spirit burned so powerfully that it incinerated his body upon dying.
62	* NoNonsenseNemesis: If Fëanor has any redeeming traits, it's that he apparently had no interest in a drawn-out conflict with The Enemy. Immediately after making landfall and beating back the Orcs, his singular purpose was to assault Angband and confront Morgoth. No plan, no backup, just him and whatever warriors he had at his side. Of course, the King never got inside, and his judgement was compromised by his rage, but it's something to note.
63	* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: The Silmarils. Fëanor even outright stated that he would never be able to create something like them again.
64	* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: So much so that Fëanor received something of a [[MemeticBadass Memetic]] status in-universe. Later generations assume that he knew Khuzdul, etc. just because, well, ''Fëanor''.
65	* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: He was basically the elven ideal. Tall, courageous, charismatic, an artisan of unparalleled skill -- and then he used that charisma to lead his people away from Valinor into the face of an enemy that could not be defeated by them, and used that martial skill to kill anyone in his way.
66	* ParentalFavoritism: Was his father's favourite, and he favoured Curufin out of his sons. It's also mentioned he loved Amrod more than Amras.
67	* {{Pride}}: The poster child, in one more parallel between him and Melkor, whom he hated.
68	* RageAgainstTheHeavens: While he didn't intend to directly attack the Valar or Eru, he openly [[NayTheist rebelled against their authority]] without forgetting to [[TakeThat insult them,]] and his Oath was considered to be a BlasphemousBoast. To be fair to Fëanor though he might’ve already been half-insane from grief as Melkor or Morgoth had just stolen his father who he cherished more than anything, even possibly the Silmarilli, and people have been known to go mad after being left to stew in their own grief.
69	* [[RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation Related Differently in the First Draft]]: Originally (in the ''Book of Lost Tales''), Fëanor wasn't related to Noldorin royal house in the first place - his father wasn't their High King, but just a random Elf, while Finwë wasn't related to him at all. Various elements of the story that seem to be slightly odd in the ''Silmarillion'' can be traced back to that original setup, like his line not inheriting the kingship from his father is one things (he never had a claim to it) or him being irrationally hateful of his relatives from the other branches of the House of Finwë (they weren't related to him).
70	* RedOniBlueOni: He was Red Oni to ''everybody else'', but most significantly to Fingolfin and Nerdanel.
71	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Culminating in his berserker attack on an entire army of orcs and their ''Balrog'' rearguard.
72	* RousingSpeech: Naturally, as Fëanor was just that good at everything, he was also a great orator when he put his mind to it.
73	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He was also a king who actually did some things. Pretty insane, horrible, evil things, mind, but things nonetheless. And he certainly wasn't staying at the rear in battles — in fact, that's what killed him.
74	* SiblingRivalry: With his half-siblings, especially Fingolfin. When remarrying, his father and stepmother did their best to make him feel wanted, and his siblings also tried to be friends with him. Fëanor didn't cooperate, and finally, his own behaviour caused his conspiracy theories to come true.
75	* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: After everything he created, established, and destroyed among the Eldar in the Blessed Realm, Fëanor gets himself killed less than a fortnight after landing on the shores of Beleriand in pursuit of Morgoth. His sons are left to continue the entire war (which lasts almost six hundred years) without him.
76	* TallDarkAndHandsome: Said to have had raven dark hair, fair face, and piercing eyes.
77	* TeenGenius: Improved on the work of previous masters while still in his youth.
78	* ThisMeansWar: His response to Morgoth's theft of the Silmarilli and the murder of his father, which drags his entire House and its followers along for a ride that lasts the better part of a thousand years.
79	* TragicHero: Fëanor, after being fooled by the lies of Morgoth, brought darkness to Valinor by refusing to donate the Silmarils to bring light and life back to the Two Trees Melkor had poisoned. He then declared a fruitless war against Morgoth, bringing doom to all who followed him back to Middle-earth for the entire First Age of Middle-earth. This ends up getting him killed. It’s even more tragic that everything that happened to him only furthered Ilúvatar‘s own goals making it AllForNothing.
80	* {{Ubermensch}}: Peerless craftsman and inventor, brilliant linguist, devastatingly skilled orator, fierce warrior, the father of more children than any other Elf in recorded history. That last probably has more to do with his wife than him, not that he didn't play a rather large role in their creation. It's just that giving birth is specifically stated to be spiritually draining for elf women, so giving birth to seven children showcases Nerdanel's own power instead. Which makes sense, considering that this is Fëanor's wife we're talking about here.
81	* UltimateBlacksmith: Created the Silmarils, the Palantíri, and the Fëanorian Lamps, besides more mundane things like weapons and armor (that a peaceful society in a worldly paradise never actually needed).
82	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He may have inadvertently contributed to Morgoth corrupting the race of Men, despite never no much as seeing one, because his rebellion took place at almost exactly the same time as the first Men awoke, causing the Valar to be so disappointed with the Children of Ilúvatar that they forsake Middle-earth altogether, meaning that they aren’t there when Men awake and do not educate them (while remaining in Middle-earth) like they did the Elves, letting Morgoth corrupt them without interference. However, this strongly depends on which timeline one uses for the Years of the Trees, and Tolkien’s final conception appears to be that Men were around long before the Darkening of Valinor, though this isn’t the case for the published Silmarillion. His passion, hate, and lust ultimately saw the demise of people who had nothing to do with the whole affair, the loss of so many wonderful things, and led to a whole lot of sorrow which Tolkien hints that everyone is STILL recovering from in the Third Age thousands of years later! However the first book of the Silmarillion hints that it wasn’t entirely Fëanor’s fault in this matter as Melkor (Morgoth) had corrupted creation itself in the beginning so anything made by either the Valar or the Children of Ilúvatar (natural or adopted) already contained some of that corruption.
83	* UnwittingPawn:
84	** Fëanor already hated Melkor with a passion in Valinor and refused to have anything to do with him. Unfortunately, he didn't realize that Melkor was subtly manipulating his dreams, suspicions, and pride, which ultimately turned Fëanor against his own half-brothers and the Valar themselves.
85	** He could also be seen as one for Ilúvatar as well as with Morgoth now returned bent on ruling and corrupting the world and with the coming of Men soon to occur and unwilling to let them be fully corrupted by Morgoth Ilúvatar needed the eldar to return to Middle Earth to aide those in resisting such a formidable foe.
86	* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood: How the Valar felt about him during his rebellion. Manwë wept no less at Fëanor's fall than he did for the destruction of the Two Trees themselves -- and for all the good he could have done, and beauty he could have created, which now would never be.
87	%%* YouKilledMyFather: To Morgoth.
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90	[[folder:Nerdanel]]
91	The daughter of the renowned Noldorin smith Mahtan, Nerdanel was a strong and intelligent woman. She was a gifted sculptor and blacksmith; her skill in sculpture in particular, unparalleled before or since, was such that her statues were often mistaken for living people. She and Fëanor met and married young; their love story was considered atypical, as it resulted from mutual interests and companionship (they often travelled together) rather than Nerdanel's beauty, which was not held to be extraordinary. They had seven children; some inherited her temperament, though it is never specified which. Nerdanel was the only person Fëanor took advice from, but "his later deeds grieved her, and they became estranged". She did not follow him into exile; instead, she went to live either with her father or her stepmother-in-law Indis.
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93	* AllThereInTheManual: Most of what we know of her is from ''The History of Middle-earth'' series.
94	* TheBlacksmith: And she was good enough at it that Feanor at least respected her abilities. Given that this is possibly the most brilliant and egotistical craftsman in Middle-Earth's history, arguably far surpassing even Sauron himself, that is seriously impressive.
95	* BirdsOfAFeather: While she lacked Fëanor's rashness and stubbornness, essentially they were very similar in nature. They were both adventurous, very gifted in their chosen field(s), and loved knowledge, science, and the arts.
96	* DaddysGirl: Perhaps, as Nerdanel inherited most of her qualities from Mahtan, shared his interests, and in some versions, after leaving Fëanor, she moved back home to live with him.
97	* DivorceAssetsConflict: Her and Fëanor's break-up did ''not'' go nicely. During their last meeting—after the swearing of the Oath—Nerdanel begged Fëanor to leave their youngest children with her, but Fëanor refused on the grounds that they had chosen to follow him (they had in fact sworn the Oath).
98	* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: After settling in the new realms of Beleriand, Nerdanel's and Fëanor's sons took new Sindarin names by translating their old Quenya names into Sindarin. Only Curufin used the name that he had received from Fëanor, all of the others used the names that Nerdanel had given them.
99	* HappilyMarried: Implied to have been this with Fëanor, until it all fell apart.
100	* HiddenDepths: She doesn't appear much, but she's implied to have a fair few.
101	** She was one of the only people in existence who understood Fëanor. Because of this, Nerdanel is the only counsellor that Fëanor actually listened to. Which is much more than he did to anyone else, especially after going on the warpath.
102	** She not only survived giving birth to seven of Middle-Earth's most formidable elves, including one set of twins, but apparently thrived. Given that having children costs a great deal of spiritual energy for the mother, and Fëanor's own mother suffered DeathByChildbirth (albeit in a fashion more consistent with post-natal depression) as a result of the sheer ferocity of his spirit, that's seriously impressive.
103	* MoralityPet: She was literally the only person that Fëanor ever actually listened to.
104	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: She outlived six of her sons, Maedhros, Celegorm, Caranthir, Curufin, Amrod, and Amras, (possibly all seven, depending which interpretation you follow of Maglor's fate) and her grandson Celebrimbor.
105	* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue Oni to Fëanor's Red. Nerdanel calmed him down and gave Fëanor wise advice as long as she possibly could.
106	* StrongerThanTheyLook: As an Elf maiden, tomboy or no, Nerdanel was surely unassuming. But her fertility and ability to survive ''seven'' sons, each the offspring of a man with a shockingly powerful spirit (and Maedhros in particular is a formidable spirit in his own right) are proof that she was unique among Elven women.
107	* {{Tomboy}}: Nerdanel is one of the few Elven women mentioned as practicing a manual craft and travelling much.
108	* TrophyWife: {{Subverted\|Trope}} in-universe. When Fëanor chose her as his wife, some Elves were surprised by this since Nerdanel wasn't "among the most beautiful" of the elven ladies out there -- possibly she was plain by Elven standards.
109	* WomenAreWiser: She is described as "firm of mind but patient".
110	* WrenchWench: Of TheBlacksmith variety, and good enough to impress Fëanor, although her skills extended beyond just that.
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113	[[folder:Maedhros]]
114	The oldest son of Fëanor and Nerdanel. Maedhros was more temperate and less rash than his younger brothers, but only relatively speaking: he was still rash by normal standards. Maedhros was captured by Morgoth, tortured, and then chained to Thangorodrim by his right hand. He was finally rescued by his cousin and best friend, Fingon, but at the expense of his hand. He later became one of the leaders of the Noldor in the war against Morgoth, ruling his brothers' hosts from the hill of Himring, but ultimately failed because of the Oath. Later on, Maedhros came to hate and regret the Oath and the awful deeds he had committed to regain the Silmarils. He was one of the few to survive the war against Morgoth, but after he tried to steal back the Silmarils, they burnt his hand so badly that he leapt into a fiery chasm to escape the pain.
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116	* AbdicateTheThrone: He willingly abdicates in favor of his uncle Fingolfin in order to heal the divisions among the Noldor.
117	%%* AntiVillain: Of the tragic type.
118	* TheAtoner: His abdication in favour of Fingolfin, his attempts to keep his brothers in line and, with Maglor, his fostering Elros and Elrond after the last Kinslaying (especially since he'd desperately tried and failed to find and save their uncles, Elured and Elurin, after the Second Kinslaying), were all attempts at atonement. While they may have failed on a personal level, he did succeed in healing the divisions between the Ñoldor to an extent, kept his brothers out of trouble for a lot longer than would otherwise have been possible, and ended up raising Elrond and Elros to be two of the greatest heroes in Middle Earth's history.
119	* BrokenAce: A legendary swordsman with either hand (indeed, he actually ended up ''better'' [[LifeOrLimbDecision with his left hand]] [[HandicappedBadass after he lost his right]]), an astute politician (ceding the High Kingship of the Ñoldor to his half-uncle in order to heal the divisions among the Ñoldor, and keeping his rasher brothers away from other Ñoldor forces to prevent further conflict), a skilled diplomat where the Silmarils weren't concerned (forming the Union of Maedhros, which kept Morgoth penned in for centuries), a skilled general, and a surprisingly good surrogate father figure to Elrond and Elros (though Maglor did most of the raising), raising both to become legends, the former a byword for wisdom for ages after. Oh, and he was probably the best-looking elf from a very good-looking family. He also lost a hand after years of torture by Morgoth drove him over the DespairEventHorizon, felt/was compelled by the Oath to commit atrocities (it's ambiguous how much literal force it had) which he tried to forswear at least once, and had to deal with both the legacy of his father's actions and try and control his more psychotic brothers, whose actions arguably did fatal damage to the Union of Maedhros, and finally committed suicide after he finally got his hands on a Silmaril and it burned him, driving him to realise how far he'd fallen. If it wasn't for the Oath, he'd probably have been a legend on par with his uncle Fingolfin.
120	* DespairEventHorizon: Maedhros has dealt with suicidal ideation on two occasions. The first was on Thangorodrim when he asked Fingon to slay him, though Fingon refused and Maedhros survived. The second time was stealing the Silmaril, and that time he went through with it.
121	* TheDreaded: To Orcs, who ran away in terror at the sight of him.
122	* DrivenToSuicide: After spending somewhere around thirty solar years as a tortured prisoner at Thangorodrim, he wanted to die. When Fingon arrived, Maedhros begged for him to kill him, though Fingon was luckily able to save Maedhros and bring him home alive, minus one hand. Several centuries later, after facing the excruciating pain brought about by the Silmarils and the regret of the horrors of his own actions, he commits to it by throwing himself into a chasm of fire. He is the only elf we know of who has died by suicide.
123	* EvilNephew: Subverted. While his Oath compelled actions are fairly horrific, he does his best to mend the rift among the Noldor by abdicating the High Kingship of the Noldor to his uncle Fingolfin, and is largely loyal to him thereafter, doing his best to wrangle his brothers.
124	* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: While Maglor did most of the actual raising, like his brother, he hated the atrocities he'd been compelled to commit, and tried to raise Elrond and Elros to be better -- and considering how both turned out, it was a pretty spectacular success.
125	* EvilRedhead: Well, more of an anti-heroic-anti-villainous redhead.
126	* FieryRedhead: Initially subverted, then later played straight. He was ''less'' vicious than his father and brothers, but he grew fiercer, more rash, and more impatient as the First Age went on.
127	* HandicappedBadass: His right hand was cut off, but it never hindered his strength. He actually trained himself to be ''more'' deadly wielding a sword with his remaining left hand.
128	* ICannotSelfTerminate: When captured by Morgoth and chained to a cliff. Fingon almost shot him, but instead decided to free Maedhros by cutting off his hand.
129	* IGaveMyWord: He and all of his brothers took the Oath of Fëanor, their father, to do ''anything'' necessary to recover the Silmarils, even if it meant sacking the last elvish haven in Beleriand. He and Maglor were the only ones who didn't die in battle because of this Oath.
130	* IHaveManyNames: Maedhros, Maitimo, Nelyafinwë, Nelyo, Russandol. Notes in the History of Middle-earth series also give him an Old English name, Dægred Winsterhand.
131	* InSeriesNickname: Russandol ("Coppertop"), a reference to his red hair.
132	* IronicName: Both of his Quenya names, Nelyafinwë ("Third Finwë in succession") and Maitimo ("Well formed one") become bitterly ironic after he's rescued from Thangorodrim and abdicates.
133	* LargeAndInCharge: Inherited the High Kingship of the Ñoldor from his father (though he abdicated to heal the divisions amongst the Ñoldor), and was given the epithet "the Tall," though Tolkien never specified exactly how tall he is - however, considering the given heights of other elves, he'd probably have been at least seven feet tall.
134	* LifeOrLimbDecision: Maedhros had to choose between death or having his hand cut off so he could be freed of a chain that restrained him.
135	* MasterSwordsman: He became a better swordsman with his left hand than he'd been with his right. Orcs would flee in terror from him during battle.
136	* MrFanservice: He's an Elf, of course, he's attractive. This is reflected in his mother-name Maitimo, meaning "well-formed one", designating him as especially attractive among a race of [[LongHairedPrettyBoy Long-Haired Pretty Boys]] It's no surprise that he is one of the most popular characters among the Silmarillion fandom.
137	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Maedhros learned that his followers had kidnapped Dior's seven-year-old twin sons, Eluréd and Elurín, and left them to starve to death in a forest in the middle of winter, he tried for a long time to find and save them. He foreswore the Oath and continued to feel terrible about the kinslaying, but didn't become TheAtoner -- instead, Maedhros (reluctantly) helped slaughter the survivors at the Havens of Sirion and convinced Maglor to kill the guards and steal the last Silmarils after the War of Wrath. From what little Tolkien wrote, it isn't clear whether the Oath ''was'' literally impossible to break, or if Maedhros just convinced himself it was.
138	* OfferedTheCrown: Maedhros would have become High King of the Noldor after Fëanor's death, but he abdicated in favor of his uncle Fingolfin in an attempt to end the feud between him and the House of Fëanor.
139	* OnlySaneMan: Compared to his family (minus Maglor). This isn't saying much, admittedly, but he did his best to keep his brothers under control.
140	* ParentalSubstitute: In some versions, Maedhros was the one who fostered Elrond and Elros.
141	* ReplacementGoldfish: Elrond and Elros seem to have been this for him. While it is possible, that they were this for his twin brothers, Amrod and Amras (in the version where they died in the Second Kinslaying), it seems more likely that they were this for their uncles, Elured and Elurin, who were abandoned in the woods after the Second Kinslaying by Celegorm's servants, and who Maedhros desperately tried (and failed) to find.
142	* SituationalHandSwitch: Originally, he was right-handed. After losing said right hand in a LifeOrLimbDecision, he simply trained himself to become even deadlier with his left hand.
143	* TeamDad: He led his brothers and kept them out of trouble... most of the time.
144	* TookALevelInBadass: After recovering from the loss of his hand, Maedhros "lived to wield his sword with his left hand more deadly than his right had been."
145	* TragicHero: He fought valiantly against Morgoth, but his dedication to the Oath lead to the deaths of hundreds of innocents and his own ruin. Whenever he's not compelled by the oath, he's pretty textbook heroic and trying to make up for what he's done. For instance, he formed the Union of Maedhros, which kept Morgoth penned in for centuries and took the creation of the dragons to break, his serious attempts to heal old wounds by abdicating his claim to the High Kingship of the Noldor to his uncle Fingolfin and bring unity against Morgoth (the aforementioned Union of Maedhros), attempts to keep his brothers under control (something which, Maglor aside, failed miserably), and [[TheAtoner a desire to atone]] first by trying to find Eluréd and Elurín (sons of Dior and Nimloth, brothers of Elwing) when they were abandoned to die in the forest after the second Kinslaying, and later raising Elros and Elrond (children of Eärendil and Elwing -- sister of Eluréd and Elurín -- whose home and people he had destroyed) with Maglor after the third Kinslaying (and considering how they turned out, doing a very good job). All in all, if he hadn't been bound by the Oath, he would probably have been one of Middle-earth's greatest heroes.
146	* WarriorPrince: Like most of the House of Finwë, and a fair rival for Fingolfin for the very best of the lot.
147	* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Both the cause of this thanks to the compulsion of the Oath, which he hated, and suffering from this/attempting to smooth it over by abdicating the High Kingship in favour of his uncle Fingolfin to heal the feud between the two branches of the House of Finwe, and trying to wrangle his brothers into line and keep them as far away from the rest of the Noldor as possible. Given that he managed to maintain the Union of Maedhros as a ''de facto'' blockade on Angband for centuries, one that took the creation of the dragons to break, he didn't do too badly.
148	[[/folder]]
149
150	[[folder:Maglor]]
151	The second son of Fëanor and Nerdanel. Maglor was reputed to be the most like their mother, resulting in wisdom and a gentler nature in comparison to the rest of his brothers. His forces guarded the pass of Maglor's Gap between Morgoth's lands and East Beleriand. He also survived the war and stole a Silmaril with his brother Maedhros, but cast the jewel into the sea when the pain of its burning overwhelmed him. He was the only son of Fëanor not reported to have died.
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153	%%* AntiVillain: Of the tragic sort.
154	* CulturedBadass: Noted for being one of the most skilled minstrels in Middle-earth history as well as a renowned warrior.
155	* DirectLineToTheAuthor: Maglor wrote the poem ''Noldolantë'', describing the fall of Noldor. It's possibly one of the original sources Bilbo used to write his ''Translations from the Elvish'', which in turn is the work Tolkien used to edit ''The Silmarillion''.
156	* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Despite the atrocities he took part in, Maglor -- with Maedhros -- raised Elrond and Elros to be wise, compassionate people who went on to become two of Middle Earth's greatest heroes (and in Elrond's case, a by-word for wisdom), largely because of his regrets surrounding his pursuit of the Oath.
157	* HarpOfFemininity: Both averted ''and'' subverted -- Maglor is both a skilled harpist and a highly-capable warrior. He was also most like his mother, Nerdanel, by his mind and character.
158	* TheHeart: Of the Sons of Fëanor. However, Maglor didn't seem to be too successful at spreading his influence onto his brothers.
159	* IHaveManyNames: Maglor, Makalaurë, Kanafinwë, Káno. He also has an Old English name, Dægmund Swinsere.
160	* KillTheParentRaiseTheChild: In pursuit of a Silmaril, Maedhros and Maglor kill Elwing's parents during the Second Kinslaying, and drive Elwing to suicide during the Third Kinslaying. (Elwing technically survives this thanks to some DivineIntervention from Ulmo, but goes to the Undying Lands and is separated from the world.) Out of guilt for his part in the murders, Maglor adopts Elwing's infant children Elros and Elrond. Notably, this apparently turns out well, with love growing between father and adoptive sons despite the circumstances.
161	* NeverFoundTheBody: His whereabouts after ''Quenta Silmarillion'' are unknown. Some say he committed suicide in his agony, some say he is still here among us, singing songs of despair and regret, ever prohibited returning back to Elvenhome.
162	* OnlySaneMan: Even more so than Maedhros. But being less fierce in nature, Maglor left the herding of their brother-herd to him.
163	%%* ParentalSubstitute: To Elrond and Elros.
164	* RedemptionFailure: Eönwë told him and Maedhros to surrender and return to Valinor to be judged. Maglor wanted to obey, but Maedhros [[PeerPressureMakesYouEvil talked him out of it]].
165	* ReplacementGoldfish: Adopting twins Elros and Elrond came right on the heels of the very same kinslaying that killed his twin brothers (if going by the version where both survive the burning of the ships). It's suspicious.
166	* TokenGoodTeammate: Of the Sons of Fëanor, Maglor seemed the closest to fully repenting for his evil deeds.
167	* WalkingTheEarth: The last time we hear of him, he is reported to be wandering on the shores of the world, singing in lamentation and pain. However, Tolkien's latest word on his fate, in part of the "Lay of Leithian", apparently changed this story to suicide by drowning.
168	* WarriorPoet: He's both one of the greatest singers who ever lived and a skilled warrior.
169	%%* WarriorPrince: Like nearly all the House of Finwë.
170	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He is last seen throwing his Silmaril into the ocean and wandering the beach alone. We never know what happens to him after the First Age. Is he still alive in Middle-earth? Did he fade away? Did he kill himself?
171	* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Because he could not repent of his Oath he never returned to Aman, and either wandered the world in miserable solitude or took his own life.
172	[[/folder]]
173
174	[[folder:Celegorm]]
175	The third son of Fëanor and Nerdanel. He and Curufin ruled the plain of Himlad in East Beleriand. Celegorm and Curufin captured Lúthien to stop her from helping Beren recover the Silmaril, but Celegorm's hound Huan turned on him because of his treachery and helped her escape. He and Dior, son of Beren and Lúthien, killed each other in the sack of Doriath when the Sons of Fëanor attempted to steal back the Silmaril.
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177	* AnimalTalk: Oromë taught him to speak it, he often communicated with Huan before they had a falling out.
178	* BigDamnHeroes: Shortly after the arrival of Fëanor's host Celegorm found out about the Orc army hazarding Cirdain in the harbours and drove them into the Fens of Serech with his army. In some versions found in the ''History of the Middle-earth'' series, Celegorm and Curufin later play this role during the aftermath of the catastrophic Battle of the Sudden Flame, as when they're fleeing from their own overrun domain Himlad they save their cousin Orodreth who is trapped in his fortress on Tol Sirion.
179	* BrainsAndBrawn: He and Curufin had shades of this, with Celegorm as the brawn.
180	* DisproportionateRetribution: After being turned down by Lúthien and embarrassed by Beren, Celegorm encouraged his brothers to attack Doriath to take back the Silmaril by force. This led to the kingdom's downfall and many elven deaths.
181	* EvilCounterpart: More like {{Jerkass}} counterpart. Celegorm and Beren are both animal lovers who know the ways of the wild and can talk with beasts and birds. However, Celegorm is a hunter and Beren never kills any animals. Celegorm is also the [[RichSuitorPoorSuitor Rich Suitor to Beren's Poor Suitor]]
182	* HeroesLoveDogs: While still being heroic, and after turning villainous, he surely loved dogs -- until they [[HeelFaceTurn turned against him]], at least. (And horses. Liking them seems to go hand-in-hand in Middle-earth.)
183	* HotBlooded: Even more so than his brothers. Especially clear when contrasted with his crafty little brother, Curufin.
184	* InterspeciesFriendship: With Oromë, a Vala, and Huan, the magical dog Oromë gave him as a gift.
185	* IHaveManyNames: Celegorm, Tyelkormo, Turcafinwë, Turko. He also has an Old English name, Cynegrim Fægerfeax.
186	* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Celegorm tried to force Lúthien to marry him so he could gain rulership of Doriath. He failed.
187	%%* JerkAss: No kidding.
188	* MeaningfulName: His name means "hasty riser," referring to his quick temper and habit of jumping up when angered.
189	* MutualKill: He and Dior, Beren and Lúthien's son, killed each other.
190	* PlatonicLifePartners: Celegorm was close friends with his half-cousin, Aredhel, who shared many of his favorite outdoor hobbies. Tolkien saw the need to specify that they were [[BetterAsFriends just friends]] (exact wording "never gave her heart") -- but then made Aredhel curiously fond of Celegorm anyway, to the point that when she left Gondolin, she sought out Celegorm rather than anyone else, even Fingon, her own brother, who would have lived much closer too.
191	* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Curufin's blue. More obvious in ''The History of Middle-earth''.
192	* RousingSpeech: Inherited his father's oratory skills. He used them to convince the elves of Nargothrond to his side.
193	* TokenEvilTeamMate: Celegorm and Curufin are by far the most villainous of the Sons of Fëanor (who in turn are the TokenEvilTeamMate of the Noldorin Houses).
194	* WhiteHairBlackHeart: He has a moniker 'The Fair', and he is implied to have had light hair.
195	%%* WarriorPrince: Like most of the House of Finwë.
196	[[/folder]]
197
198	[[folder:Caranthir]]
199	The fourth son of Fëanor and Nerdanel, and "the harshest and most quick to anger," which is saying a lot in this family. He ruled the land of Thargelion to the east of Beleriand, where he prospered from trading with the dwarves. Caranthir accepted the aid of the Swarthy Men in the war against Morgoth, but the tribe of Ulfang betrayed the Union of Maedhros at a critical moment, costing them the Fifth Battle. He died in battle while attacking Doriath.
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201	* AntiVillain: Type I. He didn't doubt his actions like some of his brothers, but he had a couple of PetTheDog moments, such as his rescue of Haleth's tribe.
202	* BigDamnHeroes: Showing up to save Haleth and her people at the last possible moment. While playing trumpets, of course. Why? This is Middle-earth.
203	* CharacterDevelopment: He starts as haughty and distrusting towards non-Ñoldor, then develops a mutually beneficial but loveless, entirely pragmatic relationship with the Dwarves, and finally goes on to learn to genuinely respect Men. Ironically it leads to him trusting even those Men who weren't worth of his trust.
204	* ElvesVsDwarves: Averted. Granted, this was before ElvesVsDwarves really kicked off, but even then Caranthir got along with dwarves much better than most elves -- apparently because of his interest in crafting, and because his gruff temperament was closer to theirs. He landed a monopoly on the very profitable trade routes to the dwarven cities as a result.
205	* FantasticRacism: Played with. He apparently despised non-Ñoldorin Elves (even erroneously slurring Thingol as a "Dark Elf" living in a cave, Thingol not technically being a Dark Elf). And while he developed a mutually beneficial business arrangement with the dwarves, Caranthir didn't try to hide his prejudice against their non-elven appearance. He was initially racist towards Men, as well. Then Haleth's courage made him [[CharacterDevelopment change his mind]] about them. This led to him trusting Ulfang's sons...
206	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Leading to his betrayal by Ulfang and sons.
207	* HairTriggerTemper: When you're a prince, this can and will lead to major political problems.
208	* HotBlooded: Of all the Sons of Fëanor, he had the worst temper and the greatest propensity to brashly shoot his mouth off at the wrong time.
209	* IHaveManyNames: Caranthir, Carnister, Morifinwë, Moryo. He also has an Old English name, Colpegn Nihthelm.
210	* LonersAreFreaks: While his brothers came in duos, Caranthir was a loner.
211	* NonIdleRich: Caranthir managed to become rich even among the Eldarin princes by his dealings with the dwarves, and by being tactically situated on their trade route to Beleriand.
212	* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Trust Caranthir to ruin your negotiations.
213	* TheUnfavourite: While not obvious, there appears to be [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory enough hints]] for various fans to independently conclude that Caranthir was Fëanor's unfavourite, or at least the one who got the least amount of attention. Him being the least attractive in appearance and personality, having no particular gift, not being the oldest or the youngest, being stuck between the handsome Celegorm and [[ParentalFavoritism the official favourite]] Curufin, and being a sulky loner are considered to be valid clues. Cue to him having an [[{{Tsundere}} inferiority]] [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex complex]] towards his brothers being a rather popular {{Fanon}} portrayal of him...
214	%%* WarriorPrince: Like most of the House of Finwë.
215	[[/folder]]
216
217	[[folder:Curufin]]
218	The fifth son of Fëanor and Nerdanel. Curufin most fully inherited his father's talent in craftsmanship and ruled Himlad with Celegorm. He aided Celegorm's plans to kill Finrod and usurp his throne, and to ransom Lúthien, and tried to kill her when it failed, but wounded Beren instead. Because of his treachery, Thingol refused to join the Union of Maedhros. Curufin died in the attack on Doriath. His son, Celebrimbor, inherited his skill and was the creator of the Rings of Power.
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220	* TheBlacksmith: Just like his father and his son. Curufin inherited Fëanor's skills and interest in crafts to the greatest extent among the brothers.
221	* BrainsAndBrawn: Had shades of this with Celegorm. He was the brains to Celegorm's brawn.
222	* TheChessmaster: What Curufin was aiming for. He managed to pull it off for a while, until the pawns saw through it.
223	* TheCorrupter: In various versions of the story in ''The History of Middle-earth'' series it's made more explicit that Curufin talked Celegorm into the whole "let's usurp Finrod's crown" plot. At one point Tolkien even goes as far as writing that Curufin put the evil in Celegorm. However, in the published Silmarillion the idea seems to be conceived together.
224	* CunningLinguist: As mentioned in ''History of the Middle-earth'' series and the ''Letters of J.R.R.Tolkien'', Curufin was the only Elven scholar to study Khuzdul, the otherwise mysterious language of the Dwarves.
225	* GenerationXerox: Nerdanel gave him the name Atarinkë "little father" because he looked just like Fëanor. Just like his father, he was also a smith and a linguist. His personality was also rather close to his father's, though Curufin was more calculated than his hotheaded father.
226	* {{Hypocrite}}: When, Eöl tries to suck up to Curufin by referring to their kinship through Aredhel, Curufin's cousin and Eöl's wife, Curufin turns this down by answering that he doesn't count Eöl as a relative, as Aredhel married Eöl under dubious consent. Later, Curufin himself gets the idea of gaining power in Doriath via marrying his brother to the unconsenting Lúthien, Thingol's daughter -- only to be turned down by the wrathful Thingol.
227	* IHaveManyNames: Curufin, Atarinkë, Kurufinwë, Kurvo. He also has an Old English name, Cyrefinn Fácensearo.
228	* InterspeciesFriendship: Curufin was one of the very few elves to find the Dwarves fascinating and to befriend them. Tolkien mentioned he was the only Elven scholar who studied Khuzdul, the language of the Dwarves, which the Elves usually found unpleasant. Curufin also carried a [[AbsurdlySharpBlade special knife]] gifted to him by the Dwarves. Later on in the Second Age, his son Celebrimbor founded the Elven realm of Eregion, which lived in a symbiotic relationship with the Dwarves of Khazad-dûm.
229	* JerkAss: All of the Sons of Fëanor were jerks to some extent, but Curufin was the brains behind the plan to have their cousin [[NiceGuy Finrod]] killed in Sauron's torture chambers, which would have allowed the Fëanorians to steal his throne. He also showed no remorse or hesitation in this or the Kinslaying at Doriath.
230	* JerkAssHasAPoint: Curufin's methods were completely wrong, but his general goals weren't entirely off. He both saw that the Elven kingdoms should be united in the war against Morgoth, and he understood that Nargothrond could only survive through secrecy. Both of these viewpoints were vindicated by later history.
231	* LikeFatherLikeSon: Of all seven sons, he was the most similar to Fëanor in appearance, temperament, and skills. Though, the reader may wonder if this isn't something of an InformedAbility, as Curufin comes off as far calmer and more calculating than his HotBlooded father.
232	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: His one PetTheDog moment where he on-page wanted to do the noble thing arguably accidentally led to even more suffering, as Eöl, whom he let go alive, soon later killed Aredhel, the very friend of Celegorm and Curufin.
233	* ParentalFavoritism: Fëanor's favorite son. Fëanor in fact gave him the name his own father had given him -- ''Curufinwë'' in Quenya, which became ''Curufin'' in Sindarin.
234	* PetTheDog: A very intentional case. Tolkien wrote that he felt Curufin appeared more villainous than he really was because he was mostly present in the "Lay of Leithian," where he had the role of a ruthless antagonist. To change this, Tolkien wrote a scene where Curufin's cousin, Aredhel, was escaping from her DomesticAbuser husband Eöl, and Curufin captured Eöl when he was hot on her trail. Curufin was perfectly capable of killing Eöl there and then, and none of his men would have objected. However, Curufin spared Eöl because killing him would have been cold blooded ''murder'', and [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Curufin had standards]].
235	* RedOniBlueOni: Blue Oni to Celegorm's Red. Compare their respective speeches to the people of Nargothrond.
236	* SmugSnake: His methods of taking over Nargothrond are just smarmy, manipulative, underhanded, and nasty.
237	* TokenEvilTeamMate: Unlike his brothers, who were driven to evil by their oath, Curufin actively wanted power to the point where he planned to rule all the Elven kingdoms.
238	* TheUsurper: Plotted to have his cousin, Finrod, killed in order to obtain the rule of his kingdom for Celegorm. He also had the extra plan of [[ArrangedMarriage marrying Celegorm with Lúthien]] to gain the rule of Doriath.
239	%%* WarriorPrince: Like most of the House of Finwë.
240	* YoureNotMyFather: At the receiving end of this by his son Celebrimbor, who repudiated him and refused to follow him when he and Celegorm were cast out of Nargothrond.
241	[[/folder]]
242
243	[[folder:Amrod]]
244	The sixth son of Fëanor and Nerdanel, and the twin brother of Amras. In the 1977 ''Silmarillion'', Amrod ruled East Beleriand with Amras and died alongside him in the Third Kinslaying; but according to ''The History of Middle-earth X: Morgoth's Ring'', Amrod was shocked by his father's deeds and planned to sail one of the ships back to Valinor to reunite with his mother, and Fëanor accidentally killed him by burning the ship he was sleeping in.
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246	* AccidentalMurder: Intended to return to Valinor and stayed behind on his ship. Fëanor was aware of his plans and burned the ships to stop anyone from going back, unaware that Amrod was still onboard. He was dismayed to find out the truth when Amras came to ask him if he had awakened Amrod before setting the ships on fire.
247	* FieryRedhead: We don't know much about the guy's personality, but from what we do know, the twins were just as fierce and violent as their siblings.
248	* IHaveManyNames: Amrod, Ambarussa, Umbarto, Ambarto, Pityafinwë, Pityo, Atyarussa. He also has an Old English name, Deormod.
249	* MommasBoy: Apparently, even back in Valinor. When Fëanor and his host were about to leave for Middle-earth, Nerdanel begged her husband to leave a few of their sons with her, or at least Amrod, hinting that he was her favourite. (The other possibility is that she knew he'd die if he left.)
250	* PropheticNames: Named ''Umbarto'', "Fated," by his mother Nerdanel. Fëanor was bothered by such an ominous name, and pretended to have misheard it as ''Ambarto'', "top-exalted".
251	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Attempted. However, it's doubtful that Amrod would have been allowed back to Valinor, considering he had sworn the Oath of Fëanor and participated in the First Kinslaying.
252	* SingleMindedTwins: Amrod and Amras both looked and behaved very similar and may have been mistaken for each other as children. However, as the twins matured, Amras's hair grew darker and others were finally able to tell them apart.
253	* ThemeTwinNaming: Originally, Nerdanel gave both twins the name "Ambarussa." Fëanor objected to this, which led to the above PropheticNames situation. The twins still called each other Ambarussa.
254	[[/folder]]
255
256	[[folder:Amras]]
257	The youngest son of Fëanor and Nerdanel, and the twin brother of Amrod. Amras claimed rulership of the lands of East Beleriand, where he became a great hunter. He died in the attack on the Havens of Sirion, in pursuit of a Silmaril.
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259	* CallingTheOldManOut: The only one who dared to [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech call Fëanor out,]] other than his mother, because of his father's accidental killing of Amrod.
260	* FieryRedhead: We don't know much about the guy's personality, but from what we do know, the twins were just as fierce as their siblings. Alternatively, averted: perhaps Nerdanel's red-haired children were also the ones who inherited her milder temper.
261	* IHaveManyNames: Amras, Ambarussa, Telufinwë, Telvo, Minyarussa. He also has an Old English name, Tirgeld.
262	* ParentalFavoritism: Fëanor seemed to love him more than Amrod. It didn't seem to come between them at all.
263	* SingleMindedTwins: Amrod and Amras both looked and behaved very similarly and may have been mistaken for each other as children. However, as the twins matured, Amras's hair grew darker and others were finally able to tell them apart.
264	* ThemeTwinNaming: Originally, Nerdanel gave both twins the name "Ambarussa". Fëanor objected to giving them both the same name, and Amrod was renamed. However, they still called each other Ambarussa.
265	%%* WarriorPrince: Like most of the House of Finwë.
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268	[[folder:Celebrimbor]]
269	The son of Curufin. Celebrimbor survived the ruin of Beleriand and settled in the elven realm of Eregion in the Second Age, which he ruled after Galadriel and Celeborn relocated to Lothlórien. Like his father and grandfather, Celebrimbor was the greatest smith of his age. Against Galadriel's advice, he created the Rings of Power with the disguised Sauron, but suspecting his partner, he created the Three Rings of the Elves in secret, which were not corrupted by the Dark Lord. When the treachery was uncovered, Sauron declared war on Eregion and slew Celebrimbor, but not before the Three Rings were entrusted to Gil-galad and Galadriel.
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271	* AntiVillain: Type IV. Acording to one version of his story in ''Unfinished Tales'', Celebrimbor overthrew Galadriel's rule of Eregion in a bloodless coup.
272	* AscendedExtra: Not exactly an extra, but for a character who wasn't well known outside hardcore Tolkien fandom, [[VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor getting two]] [[VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar AAA video games]] is pretty impressive.
273	* TheAtoner: Celebrimbor worked hard to make up for his family's wrongdoing. When he finally realized Sauron was a demon who'd tricked him, he finally took Galadriel's advice and willingly gave away the Three Rings (giving one to her) -- in contrast to Fëanor, who wouldn't give up the Silmarils even to save the Two Trees.
274	* TheBlacksmith: Perhaps the greatest since his grandfather, Fëanor.
275	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: In the more detailed Second Age history published in ''Unfinished Tales'', Celebrimbor was captured in the invasion of Eregion, and tortured and executed by Sauron. Whatever Sauron did to him was so awful that he gave up the locations of the Seven Rings, though he held out on the locations of the Three.
276	* DefectorFromDecadence: He renounced his father's evil deeds and took no part in the Second or Third Kinslayings.
277	* DidNotGetTheGirl: In one version of Celebrimbor's story in the ''Unfinished Tales'', he is in love with Galadriel and creates the Elessar (Elfstone) for her as a gift. He laments sadly that Galadriel chose Celeborn over him. It is notable that Celebrimbor is never stated to have had a wife or mate in any version of his story, indicating that perhaps for him, UnrequitedLoveLastsForever.
278	* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: ''Unfinished Tales'' reveals that Celebrimbor was horribly tortured to death when he refused to give up the location of the three Elvish rings. As an added bonus, Sauron had his body shot full of arrows and strung up on a pole as a banner when he marched to war with Gil-Galad and Elrond.
279	* {{Foil}}: To his grandfather Fëanor, to his father Curufin, and to Sauron himself.
280	** Like his grandfather, he is considered the best blacksmith of his time. Both created some of the greatest artifacts of Arda. But while Fëanor was selfish, harsh, and led the Elves "intentionally" to a catastrophic campaign that ended up with millions of deaths, Celebrimbor was noble, good, and tried to make things to help the rest of Middle Earth. Despite that for both things ended up terribly wrong, their final actions are contrasting. Fëanor made his sons swear to finish their mission despite everything, while Celebrimbor sacrificed himself to ensure the Elvish rings would not be captured by Sauron and put to evil use.
281	** To his father, from whom he deserted. Both keen of mind, brilliant, and with a very close relationship with the dwarves. But while Curufin was cruel, deceitful, and, for the lack of another word, evil, his son was practically the opposite. It is telling he deserted his father for his horrible actions in Nargothrond (one of them being to leave their cousin Finrod to die in Sauron's dungeons).
282	** And finally, to the Dark Lord himself. Both the best blacksmiths of their time, both ring makers, both looking to "save" Middle Earth. But while Sauron wanted to rule above everyone, and his desire to save Arda was a cover for his lust for power and envy, Celebrimbor genuinely wanted to help.
283	* HeroicSacrifice: He refuses to tell Sauron the location of the Elvish rings despite being tortured.
284	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Granted, Sauron ''was'' in disguise as a normal Maia and claimed to be an emissary from the Valar. But when his close friend Galadriel saw through the disguise, Celebrimbor still believed Sauron instead of her.
285	* InterspeciesFriendship: With the Dwarf Narvi, who helped him build the Doors of Durin. It was a very unusual friendship since the Elves and Dwarves mostly didn't get along after the fall of Doriath.
286	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When he realizes he's been manipulated by Sauron.
287	* TemptingFate: Evidently thought that because he had no part in his father's and uncles' atrocities, he'd be immune to the whole everything-you-start-for-good-will-be-turned-to-evil part of the curse. [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Was he ever wrong]]!
288	* TragicHero: He tried to make up for what his family screwed up but his gullibility and ambition played right into Sauron's hands.
289	* TragicMistake: Trusting Annatar. His intentions and objectives were good and noble. But he had to trust the mysterious Maiar who came to the door knocking.
290	* UnwittingPawn: Of Sauron, though he finally realized the deception before it was too late to repent. He had the last laugh, though: he left notes on ringcrafting. And destroying.
291	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Poor Celebrimbor. All his good intentions and actions ended up tying the Elves' fate to Sauron's destiny (plus the nine men who ended up as the Nazgûl and all the Dwarf-Lords who were affected by the greed of the rings and everyone around them) and ensuring Sauron's continued existence for as long as the One Ring existed. While Celebrimbor did not contribute to the forging of the One Ring (which Sauron alone created), his actions advanced Sauron's his plan in which the best outcome (i.e. the destruction of the One Ring) would force the Elves to leave Middle Earth forever. It is even more tragic when you consider he is the most decent of all the descendants of Fëanor.
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