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Cîr.Im-699 | Thoughts on Fëanor’s Actions, Fingon Fingolfinion

Written for the Silmarillion Writer's Guild January 2021 Resolutions challenge:
-- Day 6: Today's bonus prompt is an addendum to our Crackuary bingo card from February: a bonus 3x3 mini-card! - C3: Feanor did nothing wrong,
--Day 13: The 13th's prompt comes from June's "Laws & Customs" challenge:
“Then there was great unrest in Tirion, and Finwë was troubled; and he summoned all his lords to council. But Fingolfin hastened to his halls and stood before him, saying: ‘King and father, wilt thou not restrain the pride of our brother, Curufinwë, who is called the Spirit of Fire, all too truly? By what right does he speak for all our people, as if he were King?’”
~ The Silmarillion, “Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor”

Single drabble text, single drabble note, not counting the headers.

Text of Cîr.Im-699 | Thoughts on Fëanor’s Actions, Fingon Fingolfinion

What if. What if Fëanor’s actions were the best possible under the circumstances? What if he had not crafted swords of use as well as beauty, teaching the art of their making to all his sons, their use to them also, and the idea of them to all who witnessed that confrontation? What if he had listened more to Morgoth? What if the Noldor had never returned to Ennor, returned unswiftly, and the Moon had risen over a land peopled with yrch, Cirdan fallen, Doriath besieged? What if Beren had never met Luthien? How dark would the world be then?

Archivist's Note:

This is hastily written on a piece of paper torn from a larger sheet, possibly part of a letter. The paper and ink are the usual composition used in Barad Eithel from approximately 300FA through to the Fifth Battle, the pen badly in need of trimming. The hand is recognizably Fingon's, one of several attested quickly written notes. This is unusual in pertaining more to philosophy and unanswerable questions than the supply requests and day-to-day reminders that comprise most of the rest of these small, quick documents. Other examples of his thought are carefully written in his Miscellany. [See Cîr.Im-H32a]