I Hate Feanor

[Pervinca Took]

No Feanor - no kinslaying, much less anguish - but no Silmarils and maybe no Palantiri - and no Feanorian script (although I'm sure others could provide one as good or nearly as good - I know far less about elvish scripts and tongues than, maybe, I ought). I know I'm stating the obvious about the complexity of so much good as well as evil coming from this one character. But perhaps the implications of this dichotomy go further still. No Feanor, no Celebrimbor ... in the absence of Feanor's grandson, would another have had the skill to fashion the Three Rings and imbue them with the particular power and protection (to a point) from the One that they had? Might there have been no Lothlorien or Rivendell? Or at least, no Lothlorien or Rivendell with the depth of strength and healing power they possessed in the book? Plus the implications for Narya and the sustained strength of Gandalf.

[blantyr]

Maybe he should have just spent a bit more on the security system for his jewelry collection?

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by blantyr

Maybe he should have just spent a bit more on the security system for his jewelry collection?

Fëanor was the most security-conscious in all Aman, probably. His father was at home during the crime, and the home itself was an arsenal. It just goes to show that bad guys with a plan and a purpose can surprise and overwhelm all but the most careful precautions.

[Belegorn]

One good thing that did come about was that for a time the Noldor did stay Melkor's hand in Beleriand for several hundred years. He was about to take over all of Beleriand by overthrowing Doriath when they came. Fëanor and his people destroyed his army utterly.

Originally Posted by blantyr

Maybe he should have just spent a bit more on the security system for his jewelry collection?

I do not think Fëanor kept his jewels out at all, "the Silmarils were shut in a chamber of iron." [Sil, ch. 7, p. 77] It is also said, "though at great feasts Fëanor would wear them, blazing on his brow, at other times they were guarded close, locked in the deep chambers of his hoard in Tirion." [p. 74] That was before his exile when he then built a treasury in the hills at Formenos and had them "shut in a chamber of iron". The only people he was comfortable around with the jewels were his father, who he loved most of all, and his sons.