Fingolfin

The Teleri said no, and so Feanor decided to take the ships by force.

Soon the much better armed Noldor under Feanor's command, plus a few under the command of Fingin, son of Fingolfin, had killed many of the Teleri and sailed the ships away along the coast.

This was the final straw for the Valar, who until now had been hoping that the Noldor would turn back.

But after the kinslaying, they laid down an ultimatum called the Doom of Mandos, which said that any of the Noldor who left the land of Aman would never be allowed to return except in the event of death, and their spirits would remain in the halls of Mandos and not be rebodied.

and it was prophesied that they would face hardships and betrayal because of their oath.

And some, led by Finarfin, turned back.

But Feanor was more determined than ever to go on, and in the night he and his sons and their people took the ships to Middle-earth, where they burned them, causing Fingolfin and his people to take the perilous journey across the Helcaraxa.

Meanwhile, in Middle-earth, Feanor was slain, but in his dying moments he urged his sons to stick to their oath, even though he knew that it would ultimately be in vain.

Cool.

And they have kids, including Fingolfin and Fennarfin.

But Feanor's not happy.

And it's basically said that the wedding didn't please Feanor, and he has no love for Indus or her sons.

Same Na that's in Narsil, Naria.

And then in Sindarin, it becomes Naur, as in Samathnaur, the chamber of fire inside Mount Doom.

Fingolfin uses spirit of fire as an insult.

So, oh, pretty good.

Ultimately, after intervening forms had been devised and discarded, Eluin, the northern lamp, and Ormal, the southern.

In the Silmarillion, Ringil, containing ring, cold, survived only as the name of Fingolfin's sword, but Helkar is that of the inland sea, which stood where aforetime the roots of the mountains of Eluin had been.

In the present tale, Helkar was the name of the southern, not the northern pillar.

Now Helkar means utter cold, which shows that Helkar was originally in the extreme south, as it is in one of the two positions given for it on the little map, page 83, which we'll get to in just a second, just as Ringel was in the extreme north.

For Feanor began to love the Silmarils with a greedy love, and grudged the sight of them to all save to his father and his seven sons.

He seldom remembered now that the light within them was not his own.'" Then, of course, Feanor famously draws his sword on his half-brother Fingolfin.

The Valar summon him to the Ring of Doom at the gates of Valmar to let him know what's going to come of that action.

That's where we find out about Melkor's influence and Tulkas goes off to do the Tulkas thing.

Feanor, though, is not let off because he had broken the peace of Valinor and drawn his sword upon his kinsmen.

Mandos sentences him to 12 years away from Tirion, with the issue to be considered redressed if others will release thee, which Fingolfin immediately says he'll do.

Feanor says nothing, turns, and leaves.

Later on, Manwe summons him to a festival, also in Valmar.

Thinking of

Fingolfin with his challenge.

He goes, oh man, I can't not go because all my captains are going to think I'm a coward, right? One of them is going to make the move.

So he does what he does.

Right? Barahir, Beren, Hurin, Turin.

One after the other, it's all mortals that he is afraid of.

It's not to say that he doesn't have twitchy nightmares occasionally about other people, but he probably has a little bit of flashback horror from being stabbed in the foot from Fingolfin, for example.

Oh, I'm sure.

I wanted to ask a little bit about the other part of The other piece of your book with the lore and sort of the lore compendium, as a fantasy nerd myself and a history teacher, as a little kid, when I read Lord of the Rings the first time, part of what fascinated me were all the little lore threads And I followed every single one of them as far as I possibly could.

And I'd get to the end and be like, oh, you know, but I want to know more about Fingolfin or, you know, any of these other characters.

So for me, that part of what you wrote was... was equally enthralling.

I was really excited to get some more backstory and some personality quirks and things.

Sure enough, Morgoth has been mustering forces and breaks the Liger, killing a ton of people and rendering a part of northwestern Middle-earth a wasteland.

This pisses off Fingolfin so much he rides out and challenges Morgoth to single combat.

For the last time, Morgoth strides forth from the gates of Angband, wielding Grond, the Hammer of the Underworld, but Fingolfin leaps out of the way of every swing until he grows tired and falls into one of the pits made by the Hammer's impact.

Morgoth places his boot on Fingolfin's neck, but in the moment the Dark Lord kills him, the King wounds Morgoth's foot.

Morgoth casts Fingolfin's body to the wolves, but the great eagles sweep down, claw Morgoth's face, and carry Fingolfin's body to Gondolin, where Turgon his son entombs him.

Then Fingon becomes king of the Noldor and sends his son Gil-Galad to the Grey Havens.

But no, not that one.

Um, What do you want to talk about? You want to talk about just Baron and Luthien first? Or is there another...