The Doom of Mandos mainly entailed that the Eldar would never find lasting peace in Middle-earth, both physical and mental, which was very true. What with sieges, slayings, Kinslayings, more sieges and slayings, murders, banishments, treachery, etc., life wasn't exactly peaceful for the Beleriandic Noldor and the Sindar. Even though the Sindar repudiated many of the Noldor, that Doom came upon them because the actions of the Noldor affected them. Thingol was affected by the Doom because he lusted after the Silmaril. All who desired the Silmaril would ultimately fall to a bitter doom, because it was not theirs. It wasn't even Fëanor's any more. In the Silmarils lived the last light of Aman, and thus, the jewels belonged to Aman itself, not to any one person. Fëanor may have created them, but their essence was not his. It was something so holy that no fëa could possess. It should have been revered by all, as the Trees were. Such extraordinary holiness cannot be ensnared in material fetters such as hate, possessiveness, and jealousy.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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