Welcome, dear reader, to a collection of various non-chapters of The Airequalmë series. The series is a Silmarillion take on Girl Falls into Middle Earth started on January 1, 2018. Within these pages will be dedications, music, author's notes, disc...
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Okay, confession, I love Fëanor. Not quite like I love Fingon and Maedhros, but I prefer Fëanor to Fingolfin. Fëanor is prickly as a cactus. He's been terrible hurt through his life. His mother decided she'd rather die than handle him, and left him alone with his father. Oh, did I mention that Miriel his mom was the Only elf to ever die in Valinor at that point? Yeah... Talk about a painful memory. In my interpretation, Fëanor lives with that knowledge, the knowledge that he killed his mom. And then Finwë decides to remarry? Also first of all elves to ever do that and honestly after the shit show it caused I bet no one ever did again. Of course Fëanor resented Indis. And of course he resented Fingolfin, Finarfin, Irímë, and Findis. They had a normal life with a mother and a father who loved them. Fëanor saw it as a betrayal of the mother he so desperatly yearned for. Not to mention Fingolfin has always struck me as a bit of a proud guy compared to, say, Finarfin. At least Fëanor has the smarts and skills to back up his pride. He literally is the greatest elf ever. In the Silmarillion it states that no one so loved their father as Fëanor loved Finwë: "Then Feanor ran from the Ring of Doom, and fled into the night; for his father was dearer to him then 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?" Fëanor loved Finwë even more than the Silmarils. The theft of the jewels merely gave him something to put his mind to after going insane with grief for the murder of his father. Since he could not get his father back, he would reclaim the jewels. In the process, he got his sons bound to a terrible oath...but by that point he's so far gone with rage and bitterness and hatred for Morgoth that honestly I still feel for him. Wow that turned into an essay on why I adore Fëanor....... And I could keep going.
Nolofinwë / Fingolfin
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Ah, Fingolfin. The honorable, if slightly boring and obnoxious eldest son of Indis. Don't get me wrong, he gets major props for, you know, challenging Morgoth to single combat. But in Valinor, for me at least, he's sort of... Proud. But not like Fëanor proud who can back it up with crafting skills and smarts and trials he's overcome. Fingolfin has grown up with a perfect family, aside from his older half brother. So when the Silm says this: "Thus died Fingolfin, High King of the Noldor, most proud and valiant of the Elven-kings of old," I don't know it just annoys me. Of course the guy who grows up with literally wanting for nothing would be a good guy. So to me, Fingolfin is a proud guy. Perhaps he needs to be to compete with Fëanor. But I also think he just... No sense of humor. That being said, he wants what's best for his people. So I'll give him that.
