Half-brother in Blood, Full Brother in Heart by Alassante

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Summary:

The confrontation in Tirion between Fingolfin and Fëanor led to Fëanor being banned to Formenos.

 

Written for B2ME 2010: Ornisso challenged me from Formenos:

Create a story, poem, or artwork that responds to the following quote: "The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad." -- Salvador Dali.

Major Characters: Ainur, Anairë, Aredhel, Elves, Fëanor, Finarfin, Fingolfin, Fingon, Finwë, Indis, Turgon

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Artwork Type: No artwork type listed

Genre: Drama

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Rating: General

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Chapters: 1 Word Count: 4, 900
Posted on 4 April 2010 Updated on 4 April 2010

This fanwork is complete.

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Half-brother in Blood, Full Brother in Heart

A/N: This is the first time I've ever written anything from Fingolfin's perspective versus Fëanor's but I wanted to try to understand why he would follow Feanor to Middle Earth after this event. I had a hard time getting Fingolfin to let me into his head (worked on this for months!)so I must thank those in the GoI, at the CoL, and in the HoF for their input on the many earlier revisions. And Gwynnyd, Sulriel, Lissa,  and Viv with the extensive help on the final version. (hope I didn't forget anyone!) This ended up getting finished in perfect time for this challenge!

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Al, I really like your revisions to this - greatly enjoyed reading this final product. It's so refreshing to read about Fingolfin and his family, for a change, and I think you've done a good job of presenting the arguments from their side. Even Finwe is almost sympathetic here. Your depictions of what happened right after "the event" make a lot of sense to me and I'm impressed with how you dealt with the various threads that tangling the web that was Tirion in those tense days.

Excellent work. :)