Finwë

Two high kings, equals, joining their crowns under a single purpose.

Gil-galad, son of the house of Finwë, the last High King of the Noldor in Middle-earth, the final inheritor of a line that stretched back to the light of the two trees.

And Elendil the Tall, High King of the Dunedain, Lord of Arnor in the north, and, with his sons, of Gondor in the south.

The eldest kindred of the elves, and the noblest house of men, marching shoulder to shoulder.

Therefore we will neither give them nor sell them for any league or friendship.

For I say to you, Feanor, son of Finwe, these are to us as are the gems of the Noldor, the work of our hearts, whose like we shall not make again.

Thereupon Feanor left him and sat in dark thought beyond the walls of Alcolonde until his host was assembled.

When he judged that his strength was enough, he went to the haven of the swans and began to man the ships that were anchored there and to take them away by force.

Yeah, no, that's it.

He fears that when his dad, who's Finwë, will be gone, that he'll be usurped by Fingolfin, and this is all lies, of course, that Melkor spread into him.

But it's actually

kind of true, because it is known that even when the Noldor were in Valinor, a lot of them, they respected Fëanor, but it is kind of like that respect that you would put for someone having power or an accomplishment, but You would have called him a respected leader by the masters of the Noldor.

He was the last High King of the Noldor, one of the kindreds of elves, the titular ruler of the Noldor in Middle-earth.

Finwë, born at a time when the Two Trees of Valinor stood, was the first lord of the group who became known as the Noldor, following the sundering of the elves.

but was later slain by Melkor at Forminos, fortress in Valinor, when the fallen Valar seized the treasured Silmarils for his own and fled to Middle-earth.

His first son, the infamous Fëanor, claimed kingship as king of the Noldor, but it is typically accepted that with the Noldor's return to Middle-earth from Aman and the death of Fëanor, the title of High King and not just King became associated with Fingolfin I, the second son of Finwë, after Fëanor's eldest son, Mithros, gave up any claim to kingship and showed support to Fingolfin.

When Fingolfin himself fell in a duel with Melkor, now known as Morgoth, Following the High King's journey to Angband, after the disastrous Dagor Bragolach, the Battle of Sudden Flame, the title naturally passed to his first son, Fingon.

Despite mending the wounds of the houses of the Noldor by rescuing the son of Fëanor, Mithros, from Morgoth's clutches at Thangarodrim, the High King was unfortunately slain later by the Balrog, Gothmog.

But again, editorial decisions can't explain that.

Let's look at each possible history provided to us.

At the time of writing Lord of the Rings, Finrod wasn't the Finrod that we know.

In The History of Middle-earth, Volume Six: The Return of the Shadow, which goes through the rewrites of The Fellowship, Christopher Tolkien wrote this note: "At the time, Finrod was the name of the third son of Finwë.

This was later changed to Finarfin when Inglor Felagund, his son, took over the name Finrod.

But my father did not change 'of the house of Finrod' here to 'of the house of Finarfin' in the second edition of The Lord of the Rings." So Gildor, he should be saying he's of the house of Finarfin.