Middle-earth Misdemeanors

[LadyBrooke]

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian

The Vala only hallowed the Silmarillions. No one evil could touch them, Melkor included. What Maedhros and Maglor had done [attacking Thingol's kingdom] was evil, thus they couldn't touch them.

What right did the Valar have to hallow the Silmarils. They weren't the property of any of the Valar which is why they couldn't just take the Silmarils from Feanor to fix the trees. What use was hallowing them anyways? Morgoth still managed to keep them.

I tend to have problems viewing it as that evil. Dior had stolen property -a Silmaril - in his possession and refused to get it back. Let's say that the Mona Lisa gets stolen from the Louvre and then the Prime Minister of some country takes it from the thieves and then refuses to give it back to France. Would anybody blame France for going to war? No, because it's stolen property and it was a national treasure. The Silmarils were one of the Noldor's greatest treasures. So why is it evil for them to want their property back?

Why are the Feanorians judged to be more evil then the rest of the Noldor? Fingon participated in the first kinslaying but he's seldom viewed as evil. And really the first kinslaying is the only one I can view as evil. The second and third were prompted by Dior and Elwing refusing to give the Feanorians their rightful property.

That doesn't mean that it was right for them to kill women and children but if Dior and Elwing hadn't of kept stolen property in the first place it wouldn't have occurred.