#but i choose to believe he'd like. bounce baby artanis on his knee while fëanor is distracted by his siblings' existence

[anghraine]

The rivalry between Fëanor and Fingolfin is honestly kind of funny to me, because ... I mean, Fingolfin can't really compete with Fëanor in terms of either Finwë's love or Tolkien's more loosely defined sense of greatness. But there is someone who can, at least on the latter point. It's just someone else entirely.

"Galadriel was the greatest of the Ñoldor, except Fëanor maybe, though she was wiser than he ..."

"Her mother-name was Nerwen 'man-maiden', and ... she was strong of body, mind, and will, a match for both the loremasters and the athletes of the Eldar in the days of her youth."

"He [Fëanor] begged three times for a tress, but Galadriel would not give him even one hair. These two kinsfolk, the greatest of the Eldar of Valinor, were unfriends for ever."

And she's not even Fingolfin's daughter, lol. Her father is Finarfin/Arafinwë, who has to be one of the least threatening people the line of Finwë ever produced, and who has little taste for Noldorin drama. Tolkien says, "She [Galadriel] was proud, strong, and self-willed, as were all the descendants of Finwë save Finarfin."

IDK, there's something deeply entertaining to me about Fëanor seething over Fingolfin while their niece is the real threat to Greatest Noldo Ever supremacy.

#i can't remember anything about her relationship with finwë (if any) #but i choose to believe he'd like. bounce baby artanis on his knee while fëanor is distracted by his siblings' existence #anghraine babbles #deep blogging #legendarium blogging #legendarium fanwank #galadriel #peoples of middle earth #the shibboleth of fëanor #long post