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Feanor Noldor King by Venlian

Artist Note: Feanor in the Middle Earth. He claimed war to Morgoth. Noldor king before his army in the morning.

J.R.R. Tolkien “Silmarillion”

It’s like someone looked into my soul and saw Fëanor when he was, briefly, the King of the Noldor–impressive, inspiring, harsh, and frightening.  In this moment, he is both handsome and terrible, as was his character, “for he was fey, consumed by the flame of his own wrath.” (”Of the Return of the Noldor”) One could, despite his fair features, see that his face could turn cruel in a second. 

Wow.  It’s just wow.  And such a scene! 

However, Fëanor died during the Dagor-nuin-Giliath, the Battle-under-Stars, which was the Second Battle in Beleriand.  He never, in his life, saw a morning. 

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