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Also Feanor was responsible for stealing the ships of the Teleri and the kinslaying, as well as the Doom prophesied by Mandos. Then left part of those that followed him behind near the Helcaraxe, sailed to the Firth of Drengist and set the ships on fire, deserting the very people who followed him.
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Yet Finarfin left them before the "betrayal" of Feanor towards Fingolfin.
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Finarfin would have been realizing the full implications of the kinslaying, as I presume the late comers eventually got around to saying, 'say, why exactly did the Teleri ambush us,' then find out they didn't. After hearing Mandos' words on the subject, Finarfin realized that this path of revenge and conquest, baptized as it was in blood & betrayal, could only lead to a place where the luckiest Noldor would be killed in battle and the unlucky would survive long enough to degrade themselves into little Morgoths.
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So, why did Finarfin had to hear the Doom of Mandos to abandon the voyage to ME. Wasn't the Kinslaying enough of a deterrent for him to turn back.
Finarfin went from Alqualonde, where the Kinslaying ocurred, to the Wastes of Araman, where the Doom of the Noldor was spoken. Quite a ride. Why wasn't his abandonment of the voyage made after the Kinslaying and not because of the Doom of Mandos.
Finarfin was afraid of the Valar.