(Yesssss.... I'm powerful!!!!)
Anyone with the fatal flaw of arrogance and a feeling of superiority is indeed quite ripe for a fall. Those traits were something that both Maeglin and Fëanor shared, although for different reasons. I also don't fault Maeglin for becoming infatuated with Idril like that. I mean, if I had been brought up in the middle of a dark forest, with a dad as nutters as Eol, I would have been quite repressed. Suddenly, with his and his mother's escape, Maeglin had a ton of freedom that he probably didn't know what to do with. It must have been quite a maturing experience for him to see the rest of his family (or at least some of the rest of his family) that he had always heard about, and also to lay eyes on this radiantly beautiful, glowing, perfect Elf maiden.
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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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