Thirty Day Character Challenge: Feanor by eris_of_imladris

Prompt 1

Prompt: Drop Everything and Read, Part One. Take at least a half-hour to read what the texts say about your chosen character.

According to the texts, Fëanor is the greatest of the Eldar, and at the same time, among the most flawed (if not the most). With his backstory coming from a broken family, and his superhuman ability to hold a grudge, he seems to be his own greatest help and worst enemy, which has inspired one of my favorite headcanons for him. Some of my initial notes from the Silmarillion:

• Fëanor was the eldest and most beloved son of Finwë, and his only son with Míriel Þerinde (which he always spelled in that way). His father-name was Curufinwë and his mother-name was Fëanáró.
• His mother was exhausted after his birth, and her spirit went to the Halls of Mandos.
• He became the “most subtle in mind and the most skilled in hand,” and created the Tengwar alphabet and a variety of new gems including Fëanorian lamps and the palantiri.
• He married Nerdanel at a young age. She was the daughter of Mahtan, who taught him about smithing, and the pair had seven sons before their estrangement.
• His father remarried Indis of the Vanyar, and he had a great feud with her sons, Fingolfin and Finarfin.
• Fëanor created the Silmarils!
• And Melkor did not like this very much, and incited anger between Fëanor and Fingolfin, to try to spread them apart. This led to Fëanor threatening Fingolfin with a sword.
• Manwë and the other Valar banished Fëanor to Formenos for 12 years, and Finwë followed him.
• Melkor came to Fëanor in Formenos to try to speak to him but Fëanor told him to get off his lawn.
• Manwë invited Fëanor to his halls in Tanquetil, and he came and was reconciled with Fingolfin in word. But Melkor set a giant spider, Ungoliant, upon the Trees, and they were killed.
• Yavanna asked Fëanor for the Silmarils to revive the Trees, but he said no, and then learned that Melkor went to Formenos, slew his father, and stole the Silmarils. He named him Morgoth and flouted the decree of exile, returning to Tirion and inciting the Noldor to leave the shores of Valinor and return to Middle Earth for vengeance.
• He and his sons swore the Oath of Fëanor, which would turn out to be their undoing.
• Fëanor needed ships to reach Middle Earth, and when the Teleri refused him their ships, he incited the first Kinslaying.
• Fëanor departed with the ships in secret, and set the ships on fire when he reached his destination, his half-brother Fingolfin and his host to cross the Helcaraxë, a great icy land.
• Upon his arrival on Middle-Earth, Fëanor fought the host of Morgoth, but was slain by Gothmog, the lord of the balrogs, and his body turned to ash as he perished.