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07-07-2013, 11:27 PM | #1 |
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I Hate Feanor
When discussing Sauron elsewhere, I reflected on the many horrific nicknames given to him and his master Melkor.
But ya know, Feanor should get some. I despised no one in all of The Silmarillion more than Feanor. His stupidity and arrogance caused more suffering than anyone save the two Dark Lords. But whereas both of them started off with high purpose, Feanor just wanted his pretty jewels back. And don't tell me "he wanted to avenge hs father." If he gave a crap about his dad he wouldn't have abandoned one of his father's sons to possible death and certain suffering. The Kinslaying was barbaric and unnecessary but what he did to Fingolfin and the others right afterward should earn him the title of The Deceiver. The Oath of caused untold pain and strife and I do feel sorry for at least a few of his sons but Feanor himself was an irredeemable monster. So what say you? I thought of this topic after finishing reading LOTR forr the first time. I was contemplating the pitiable state of Saruman and the tragedy of his fall and I thought of the one major villain in Tolkien that I never felt sorry for in the least. |
07-08-2013, 01:48 AM | #2 |
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One thing that may have contributed to Fëanor's actions was the 2nd marriage of his father to Indis. Elves marry for life and taking a 2nd spouse was sort of unheard of. This marriage in the end condemned his mother to being discarnate forever. To Indis and her children he held a grudge therefore. There is also this thing with the language of the Noldor. He was a linguist and he believed that þ should be used rather than s and when Indis married his father and accepted the Noldor's use of s rather than þ he felt that was a rejection of Miriel, his mother, because she used þ and so did Finwe until Miriel died. He had a lot going on. He thought his position as heir was going to be usurped, he thought the Valar were plotting against him, he hated Morgoth, and his father was killed by Morgoth.
Fëanor means "spirit of fire". This was his nature. He was in the end very much deceived by the designs of Melkor so I cannot put all the blame on him. The Silmarils were his greatest creation. Even the Valar knew not how he came to create such a thing. These were his darlings, his babies, his crowning achievement. "For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest. It may be that I can unlock my jewels, but never again shall I make their like; and if I must break them, I shall break my heart, and I shall be slain; first of all the Eldar in Aman." [sil, p. 87] In his speech to the Noldor he basically rehashed Melkor all over. He wanted to go to Middle-earth and rule there because he believed that the Valar were holding them captive in Aman so that a lesser people, Men, could rule the wide world. He wanted revenge on Melkor for stealing his Silmarils. He was not the only one deceived, but in the end his folly ended up making the Noldor a legendary people in their deeds on Middle-earth and in Beleriand.
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07-08-2013, 05:14 AM | #3 |
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Like all of Professor Tolkien's "villainous" characters (although he's more of an anti-hero, wouldn't you say?) I find Fëanor to be an absolutely fascinating character. I think his crimes are an excellent representation of that consistent theme in Professor Tolkien's work that obsession enables dangerously absolutist behaviours and the rationalisation of any misdeed, especially as a risk for the gifted and exceptional.
I'm not sure how much sympathy I have for Fëanor, but despite the grandiosity of his deeds I do feel a great deal of empathy for him, because I think he encapsulates some very fundamental human themes, if in a rather exaggerated way.
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Firstly, let us not call Feanor a villain. Morgoth is a villain. Sauron is a villain. Gothmog, Glaurung, and etc are villains. Not Feanor. He is not an evil guy. He is not even a bad guy. He's just a mad one. Well, at least partially. And many geniuses of the real world are partially mad.
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And, bottom line is, every Noldo chose for himself. If they went with Feanor, it was because they chose to. Yes, Feanor was charismatic and inspiring and even fearsome to an extent (which, by the way, just makes me respect and be in awe of Feanor even more). But the Noldor collectively made the choice to follow him.
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They did, but "collectively" means that some went so as not to desert their fellows, not purely through their own desire.
However, otherwise I agree with what you said, Galadriel. I think I feel too detached from Feanor to either hate or love him, although I too empathise with his losses. He's the kind of character whose deeds make you uncomfortable, although you admire him, and that's why he's so powerful and memorable, I think. Perhaps Turin has some elements of this, too. The flawed and tragic hero that you can't forget but can't always wholly forgive either?
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07-08-2013, 11:06 AM | #6 |
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Feanor is a tragic hero brought down by a flaw in his own character and digging him self deeper and deeper. I pity him and I think destroying the Silmarilli would have destroyed him. I dislike his sons more on the whole and it would be a very different history without him... He isn't evil in the way Melkor and Sauron are.
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07-08-2013, 09:04 PM | #7 |
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Reading some of the other things besides the Silmarillion regarding Fëanor it appears to me like a fire no longer contained, and out of control. In one version his mom lives while he grows up and she restrains him, but in any case, it would appear his mother name, "spirit of fire", blends into his actions during the rebellion. I do think the 2nd marriage of his father was really the thing that got things going. It seems the Valar themselves were worried about this. In the end some small part may be attributed to Melkor's influence in Arda, Morgoth's Ring.
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On the other hand, though, I do not have pity for him in the sense that I think that he got what he deserved. Still, I am totally in awe with his character.
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Oh yes....I don't pity him that and I think Belegorn is right. He is an uncontainable force of nature anf was born thus. He is such an extreme character. His creativity is balanced by the destruction he wreaks. Hia possessiveness by his losses. Maybe his refusal to yield was triggered by his mother's refusal to try to cling to life.
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07-19-2013, 12:21 AM | #11 |
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And Sauron was a victim too at one point I bet. Nothing is evil in the beginning.
But Feanor foresook any sympathy when he dragged a bunch of innocent elves to their deaths. The Sil states in no uncertain terms that Feanor in his speech motivating everyone to leave, was repeating Melkor's lies. His supposed great enemy fed him falsehoods and yet he chose to regurgitate them so as to gather an army to assail Melkor with. A nice disposable host of elves so he could reclaim his pretty gems. The fact is Feanor did not lead the exodus of Valinor for any even vaguely noble end. Everything he told to his followers was a pack of lies and an excuse to get them to come with him and thus increase his chances of defeating Melkor. I do hold him accountable for every elf who died after leaving the Blessed Realm because they died needlessly and for one elf's supreme selfishness. |
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Additionally, discontent was sown first in the hearts of other Noldor: "Visions he would conjure in their hearts of the mighty realms that they could have ruled at their own will, in power and freedom in the East". It was only when this rumour 'got about' that "Fiercest burned the new flame of desire for freedom and wider realms in the eager heart of Fëanor; and Melkor laughed in his secrecy, for to that mark his lies had been addressed, hating Fëanor above all" ("Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor"). Upon their exile, then, Fëanor "urged the Noldor to follow him and by their own prowess to win freedom and great realms in the lands of the East, before it was too late; for he echoed the lies of Melkor" ("Of the Flight of the Noldor"). In that regard I think that Fëanor was only really telling the Noldor what they already believed and wanted to hear, and as such the theft of the Silmarils was by and large an excuse for them to do what they already longed for. The recovery of these holy artefacts was a pretense for them to seek what they desired, power and kingship in Middle-earth, which was something they struggled to do, rather disastrously, throughout the First and Second Ages. Again, I don't feel sympathy for Fëanor, but I still believe that he was not alone in his crimes, and where blame does not lie at the feet of Melkor himself much of it lies with the dissident Noldor at large.
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Are the men that God made mad. For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad." (G. K. Chesterton). Of course, a British Catholic theological writer and poet, and contemporary of Tolkien.
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In Valinor, believe it or not, in his relationship with Melkor, Fëanor "held NO CONVERSE with him and took NO COUNSEL FROM him" [Sil, p. 71] whereas everyone else did, "both the Valar and the Eldar had profit from his aid and counsel, if they sought it" [70] and among the Noldor "some harkened to his words that it would have been better for them never to have heard" [71]. I think maybe it should also be noted that, "none of the Eldalië ever hated Melkor more than Fëanor" even "snared though he was in the webs of Melkor's malice against the Valar"[71]. Lastly it is said: "they [gods] mourned not more for the death of the Trees than for the marring of Fëanor: of the works of Melkor one of the most evil." [Sil, p. 112]
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And speaking of the abovementioned tragic heroes that I passionately defend, I just want to ask you all a question out of pure curiosity about the matter. When you read the stories, Turin and Feanor and the like are presented as heroes - very flawed heroes, but heroes nonetheless. Moreover, their contemopraries regarded them as such; perhaps not everyone and all the time, but overall both end up with pplenty of deference from those who have just outlived them. And the later Ages speak of both as great heroes too. Middle Earth and Middle Earth history seems to have accepted the Greatness despite the wrongs. But, as readers, you still think that the wrongs of deeds and character and consequences outweigh the sheer scope of those three things? As in, that they are Great people despite?
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Fëanor was an artistic genius, and as such was much like others of his ilk, too passionate and prone to rage for his own good.
I can't say that I hated the character, but felt more disappointed in his failings; but everything he ever did was on a grand scale. Even in death he proved larger than life, his inner fire consuming him. As Neil Young once said, "Better to burn out than to fade away."
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Sauron was both Great (is there one entity that has had a larger and longer-lasting effect on ME?) and evil (I mean really, really evil- the kind of guy who tortured people because he liked it.) Feanor was Great (many reasons given already) and willful (I'll have my way, period!).
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That being said, I too find Fëanor to be a fascinating character. I do not think he is evil, though he does evil deeds. I am sympathetic to the fact that he was, initially, the only person in Valinor to be so gravely affected by loss and bitterness, possibly exacerbated by the thought that he might have caused his mother's death. This is, of course, no excuse for mass murder and sedition, and that he could lead his supposedly beloved sons into such great peril is quite startling. At this point I am not sure whether a great desire for revenge and insanity are the same for him.
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I think, Fëanor's great love was to his father. His death clearly hurt him, and no less by the being he hated most in Arda, Morgoth, "none of the Eldalië ever hated Melkor more than Fëanor" [Sil, p. 71]. It is known that Finwë gave all of his love and most of his thought to Fëanor who he went into banishment with after Fëanor pulled a sword out on Fingolfin. As to Fëanor's own feelings to his father:
"his father was dearer to him than the Light of Valinor or the peerless works of his hands; and who among sons, of Elves or of Men, have held their fathers of greater worth?" [p. 88] There were some circumstances at work against Fëanor that were a bit abnormal. His mother died and his father remarried and wanted more children. It's said, "if Finwë had endured his loss and been content with the fathering of his mighty son, the courses of Fëanor would have been otherwise, and great evil might have been prevented" [Sil, p. 69] Also he created of the most magnificent gems in Arda that were envied by the mightiest being in Arda. If he held those feelings about his mother's death [that he was the cause] he held them also for his father's demise, thinking "in the madness of his rage and grief that had he been at Formenos his strength would have availed more than to be slain also, as Melkor had purposed." [Sil, p. 88] Again, his circumstances were a bit abnormal. He loses both his parents in the land of the deathless. He lost his greatest creations. I think in the end he loved his father more than his sons, and even though he knew his sons could never hope to topple Melkor he told them to keep the Oath and avenge him. I guess it's something to do with his greatest love and his greatest hate.
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I'm reading The Sil these days for the first time. I don't hate Fe0Š1nor(sp?), I liked him. Though, I don't know what happened to him in the end, I kind of feel sorry for him(I feel he ended as a tragedy, didn't he?). As someone said he's sort of an "anti-hero", I agree with him/her. Nothing to add more right now.
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No Feanor - no kinslaying, much less anguish - but no Silmarils and maybe no Palantiri - and no Feanorian script (although I'm sure others could provide one as good or nearly as good - I know far less about elvish scripts and tongues than, maybe, I ought). I know I'm stating the obvious about the complexity of so much good as well as evil coming from this one character. But perhaps the implications of this dichotomy go further still. No Feanor, no Celebrimbor ... in the absence of Feanor's grandson, would another have had the skill to fashion the Three Rings and imbue them with the particular power and protection (to a point) from the One that they had? Might there have been no Lothlorien or Rivendell? Or at least, no Lothlorien or Rivendell with the depth of strength and healing power they possessed in the book? Plus the implications for Narya and the sustained strength of Gandalf.
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Maybe he should have just spent a bit more on the security system for his jewelry collection?
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Fëanor was the most security-conscious in all Aman, probably. His father was at home during the crime, and the home itself was an arsenal. It just goes to show that bad guys with a plan and a purpose can surprise and overwhelm all but the most careful precautions.
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One good thing that did come about was that for a time the Noldor did stay Melkor's hand in Beleriand for several hundred years. He was about to take over all of Beleriand by overthrowing Doriath when they came. Fëanor and his people destroyed his army utterly.
I do not think Fëanor kept his jewels out at all, "the Silmarils were shut in a chamber of iron." [Sil, ch. 7, p. 77] It is also said, "though at great feasts Fëanor would wear them, blazing on his brow, at other times they were guarded close, locked in the deep chambers of his hoard in Tirion." [p. 74] That was before his exile when he then built a treasury in the hills at Formenos and had them "shut in a chamber of iron". The only people he was comfortable around with the jewels were his father, who he loved most of all, and his sons.
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That's pretty seriously a problem. But, while we're on a rant about how personality attributes failed the great, the Valar didn't do a very good job of working with brother Melkor. Really? Imprison with unbreakable chains for god knows how long and expect an atonement? ARE YOU KIDDING ME That had to be the totally dumbest way I can think of, of approaching estrangement amongst the Valar. Did anyone try to 'add' to Melkor's creatures to repair or deepen their capacities as sentient beings, rather than mindlessly destroy them. We think, for example, that Gothmog (the First Age one, not the one on the Pelennor) was a *child* of Morgoth and some troll thing. That's a *child* of a *god* and part of the order of existence. Why didn't anyone try to repair the Rings of Power? Or craft means of redeeming the Ringwraiths. There was this continual commitment to slaying in a competition for survival, and absolutely no energy, commitment, valour or *love* to guide reparations. Nienna was the only Maia I can think of who just cried about the grand, great death and loss of the whole sorry confrontation. Of course , I'm not sure she'd be much company at a dinner party, with all that weeping when everyone needed a break from the toils of kinslaying, theft, murdering lovely trees, swollen spiders that gobble everything, ravenously hungry orcs who just can't stand the thought of an Elf anywhere nearby. Never mind that Orcs and Elves are cousins. Or that the Elves crafted full on death blades, murderous spears (Gil Galad), things that burn, zorch, belch spiritfire and that hack at existence, quite in their own way. Now, I'm not suggesting for a second that dear Sauron had the right approach either -- I mean, really, Annatar - what did you do? Put Celebrimbor's head on a PIKE for god's (sorry Eru's sake) and march on into the Ost In Edhil chopping away, spilling Elven blood. I mean, really? What ON MIDDLE EARTH did you have in mind to actually do, Sauron after blackening, poisoning and getting rid of all life? Not much to do in that kind of playground, hey..... (sighs)(rubs temples) Last edited by Ivriniel; 03-14-2014 at 09:33 PM. |
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Fëanor was on a whole other level from any of his kindred and "was made mightiest in ALL PARTS of BODY and MIND... of ALL the CHILDREN of Ilúvatar." [Sil., ch. 11. p. 112] He was like a Super Saiyan, his like would never be seen again. I do not think Fëanor was all that much like Melkor except that they were extreme in their prowess compared to their peers, otherwise I'm not sure that Fëanor was jealous of the works of his peers, nor envied them their success. The only things he was jealous of it seemed was his father's love, and the Silmarils.
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But his cunning overreached his aim; his words touched too deep, and awoke a fire more fierce than he designed; and Fëanor looked upon Melkor with eyes that burned through his fair semblance and pierced the cloaks of his mind, perceiving there his fierce lust for the Silmarils. Then hate overcame Fëanor’s fear, and he cursed Melkor and bade him be gone, saying: ‘Get thee gone from my gate, thou jail-crow of Mandos!’ And he shut the doors of his house in the face of the mightiest of all the dwellers in Eä. That alone is reason to be at least a little fond of Feanor, I think. Hello, Barrow-Downs. |
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Well said, and welcome.
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I remember, for a very long time, turning on Frodo and seeing him as the failed hero because his forbearance lapsed at the 11th hour at the Sammath Naur. It's only 25 years later that I found compassion for him, realising some of the implications of the burden he bore, and realising I suspect I'd be much more like ole Boromir, ultimately, than our noble Aragorn. A hard realisation to accept--that I'm just an ordinary human like the rest of us 9 billion souls, excepting people like Nelson Mandella, and Ghandi. Quote:
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