Feanor's Wrath

[WarBringer]

Originally Posted by Anguirel

Not sure I quite buy your Cold War idea, Tuor. Maybe it's just the astoundingly dull way we were taught it.

On Feanor; he was, like Luthien but in a different way, too bright to exist for long. He would never have moderated his ambition to avenge his father-which to him was a much greater blow, of course, that the rape of the Silmarils. He could not but die. Apart from anything else, his fiery genius would have consumed him at the last. He is an Achillean figure who has chosen immortality above survival.

On the contrary, I believe his fiery genius would have spurred him on. Keep in mind that Feanor was not a suicidal, homicidal elf consumed with war. He was a elf of great subtlety of hand, and, given time, would have been able to think things through. Surely such an elf would realize "Oh S---, did I just leave paradise?" Think about Maedhros, his son. As he matured, Maedhros became quite virtous, recognizing that only through a united force could the elves defeat Morgoth. And, as they say, the apple doesnt fall far from the tree...