#House of Finwë

[thesilmarilliondrawn]

FINWË'S LAST STAND

As Nienna grieved for the destruction of the Two Trees, Noldor messengers arrived from Formenos bearing ill news. They spoke of a nameless darkness that had moved north, and within it moved a strange power for which they had no name and DARKNESS spilled from it. But Melkor was there too and had gone to the House of Fëanor and had slain Finwë, High King of the Noldor, before his own doors, spilling the first Blood of the Eldar in the Blessed Realm.

Finwë was the only one who had not run from the horrors of the Dark.

Melkor had penetrated the Fortress of Formenos and had taken all the jewels of the Noldor. The Silmarils too, were unaccounted for.

Silmarillion, Chapter IX "Of the Flight of the Noldor"

[inthehouseoffinwe]

Fëanor, Fingolfin, and Finarfin loved all their nephews and nieces I take no argument. They showed it in different ways, but there were never any malicious thoughts towards them.

Any competition they had was between each other (though Finarfin was very much youngest sibling literally cba to deal with his older brothers.)

Fëanor: Always has too much food, used to his kids bringing over their respective favourite cousin for a meal because they were out playing too late and he’s not exactly going to send a child home hungry. As they got older it was because they’d been out and this was the closest place to disappear away to and crash. He’s used to seeing various kids sprawled across the carpet in the living room, waking up with headaches and groans. He’ll never admit it, but he finds it hilarious and enjoys seeing the children happy. If his brothers ask? ‘What do you mean they were out, I’ve had your children here with me all night.’

Fingolfin: One day I’ll stop linking this post but I really like how it turned out so you get to see it again! Fingolfin happily lets them traverse his house, go through his belongings. He’s very much a partner in crime, helping them sneak around, acting as lookout. Pretending not to see a majority of sweet pasties disappear overnight. He lives closest to the busy parts of the city, so it’s not unusual for the kids to get ready at his house if they’re going out anywhere or even preparing for Court. Most of the kids have their own shared room, and they’re full to the brim of everyone’s clothes, jewellery, shoes. Essentially a whole wardrobe. It gets messy, but he loves seeing his house full of life. Even if he could do without the mess Tyeko and Iressë bring in… and the various musicals at 3am. ‘You know we never tire of having you here… but perhaps you could tone down the partying? Just a little?’ He wouldn’t have it any other way.

Finarfin: My guy ofc has his house by the sea which like Fingolfin’s, has many many rooms full to the brim with clothes and jewellery. It’s essentially a home away from home for his niece and nephews, they don’t have to pack because everything’s already there. As youngest uncle and closest in age, he’ll just so happen to tell the kids where to have fun. He had the least pressure on him growing up and knows the best places in Tirion and Alqualondë. Going to Finarfin’s is like going on holiday, he’ll back them up and make sure they can do what they want without worrying about their reputations as princes and princesses. ‘The kids are far too stressed and don’t get to come here often, brothers. Let them have their fun. I’ll take care of them.’

Bonus!

Finwë: The mastermind. The accomplice. The alibi. He has a wild side to him born in Cuivienen and honed over the Great Journey. Court life is too stuffy even for him sometimes, let alone his grandchildren. He’s the one telling them all the wild things he got up to in his youth with a wink at the end subtly telling them how to do things their parents definitely would not approve of. High King Finwë would never! High King Finwë definitely would, and he’s making sure his grandkids get the experience too. He’s the one who gets the parents to leave for weeks at a time and his grandchildren have the time of their lives. ‘My sons, you worry too much! Don’t you trust your father?’

[annoyinglandmagazine]

The Finweans when Thingol banishes them from lands he doesn’t own without having a valid reason at this stage: “Maedhros laughed saying: 'A king is he that can hold his own or else his title is vain.’”

The Finweans when Thingol finds out they massacred his brother’s people for boats and responds by banning Quenya: You start linguistic beef with a Finwean? You come for our þs and sá-sís? oh! oh! Jail for Thingol! Jail for 100000 years! One day we will get you and you will know why!

[edennill]

An incomplete list of Namo Mandos' metaphorical headaches:

Fëanor (no comment needed, only how on Arda can he think Mandos is putting up with him because he wants to and wouldn't throw him out if he actually was ready to leave. Doesn't help that he's actively trying to get thrown out)

The sons of Fëanor (aside from Maedhros; can't you all follow his example and actually be repentant of, you know, mass murders??)

For that matter, unrepentant followers of Maedhros, who don't care that Maedhros himself has decided they were all in the wrong

Eöl & Aredhel

Finrod (no, listen - Finrod is good and (mostly) courteous, but he's tried to wheedle out what the fate of Men is from him on ten separate occasions and is a general troublemaker. At least he didn't stay long)

The rest of the house of Finwë. There isn't an untroublesome soul among them, which is living proof that Elros is line of Lúthien. Some of his descendants though...

Númenoreans who think they can shout the Lord of the Dead into submission, demand that he give them more life, and haven't been told "no" since that one nanny when they were three who was subsequently discharged

Númenoreans who rail at him for the injustice of the universe which allows "lesser men" to take up arms against slavers and doesn't he know how unfair it is to rob someone of their life like that

People just blaming the nearest Vala for their own bad life choices

[spruceneedles]

Findis and Lalwen (concept)

[silmarillion-ways-to-die]

Knock knock.

Who's there?

Melkor.

Melkor who?

Melkor who's going to murder the fuck out of you, Finwë.

[art-of-firefly]

My Chara-design for Celebrían.

The next charadesigns will be Arwen, Elladan & Elrohir

The House of Finwë

[aylen-san]

Family Happiness

Evening had fallen upon Tyrion, but Finwë's chambers were alive with light. The king listened with delight to young Macalaurë's new work, a quiet but surprisingly profound motif that spoke of longing for distant lands and the majesty of Aman. Finwë, now free to consider himself a musical expert, was immensely proud that his grandson could express his feelings so skilfully through melody.

Next to him sat Maitimo, the eldest of the grandchildren. He studied the map intently, tracing the winding lines of the roads with his finger. Plans and dreams of wanderlust stirred his thoughts, and Finwë smiled warmly at the eagerness in the eyes of a grandson who knew the world only through stories.

Finwë felt at the pinnacle of happiness. His son, Feanaro, had found someone who shared his passion and thoughts, and now, sitting on the terrace with Nerdanel, they quietly discussed plans for a new journey through Aman, where every corner held ancient wisdom and every stone held its secrets. They planned to visit places hidden even from prying eyes, ancient rock formations to which they were both drawn as craftsmen and creators.

But the king suspected there was more to these plans. Feanaro's eyes shone with the same brilliance as they had years ago when he first met Nerdanel. Though they discussed routes, Finwë noticed how their voices sometimes fell silent, and the same spark that ignited when someone dear to him was near.

As if chuckling to himself, Finwë wondered if he might soon have a new grandson.

[crownedwithstars]

I'm suddenly desperate to read a full novel length fic, or even a one-shot (I'm not picky), from Finarfin's point of view, covering the time between the Kinslaying of Alqualondë and the War of Wrath.

Is this a thing that exists? Does anyone know if there's something even remotely like this? Recommendations are welcome!

[velvet4510]

The whole story thread where Fëanor believes Melkor’s lie that Fingolfin is plotting to surpass him as next in line to the throne of the Noldor is confusing to me.

Elves don’t die. Míriel has been the one and only exception at this point. There has never been any war or slaying in Valinor yet. So for all the Noldor know, Finwë will be their king forever. In their minds, there is no need for them to worry about the line of succession because Finwë will always be around.

So the fact that Fëanor finds it plausible that Fingolfin intends to surpass them can only mean he’s gotten it into his head that Fingolfin plots to kill them. But, no Elf has ever been killed before. Fëanor has no way of knowing if an Elf can even be killed.

This doesn’t really make any sense to me.

[papita474]

I was thinking in bad decisions of the Noldor and how some people consider them "dumb decisions" so...

( i dont think any of these were dumb btw,they all have a reason)

[carmisse]

Of Ñolofinwë and Arafinwë.

Ñolofinwë : I'm just saying that they could have fallen in love with other people. Turukáno did it.

Ñolofinwë : it doesn't bother me in particular, I just find it curious.

Arafinwë : If I remember correctly, Tyelkormo and Irissë were only together for a span of six years.

Ñolofinwë : but Maitamo and Findekáno are married, Aracáno and Telufinwë are on their way to do the same.

Arafinwë : Oh Nolo, they are really adorable!

Arafinwë : although I have a theory.

Arafinwë : remember when you were a teenager and confessed after a couple of glasses of sweet wine that you had feelings for our brother?

Ñolofinwë : For the last time, I was drunk, I was young and that feeling was completely platonic!

Arafinwë, smiling : I think your children inherited it from you.

[inthehouseoffinwe]

Someone was like Maedhros has Eldest Daughter Syndrome and honestly? He totally does. Like I’m thinking specifically the kind you get as the eldest daughter in a brown family. I say this as a younger sister of That Eldest Daughter TM from an Indian family

Like tell me Finwëan drama isn’t prime Indian Family Drama TM down to the brothers fighting over their father’s inheritance. Just what goes down in Aman woudk make the plot for one of those 1000+ episode series’ with all the dramatic camera flashes 💀

Anyway, Mae sits very well in the eldest granddaughter role.

Eldest son/nephew/grandson who balances all the complicated politics and low-key raises his siblings and cousins. Admired and held as a role model for them. But also overworked and too tired for all this. Probably the one who stands up to the fathers/uncles/grandparents on behalf of everyone but himself.

(That’s what Maglor, Fingon, and Finrod do as the collective Second Oldest.)

Also this whole situation with the crown and competition being because of the Dad’s Side is also a very Indian, and from what I hear an Asian/Arab, thing 😂

[annoyinglandmagazine]

[edennill]

thinking how there has to be an elvish equivalent of generations (sociologically speaking) like 'the lost generation' or 'gen x' and such, only it's so much more complicated because they're immortal. like there still are specific events that impact people who lived through them and they share this impact with everyone else who did, there is a world of difference between having fought in beleriand and being born after the war of wrath, but at the same time there's also a world of difference between dying in beleriand and living to found eregion.

and a huge part of the differences that matter is in whether you were in valinor or middle earth but they're not the only ones, and just within the house of finwë... like, the cousins™ are very visibly all one generation, sociologically and literally speaking, born in the bliss of valinor and then taking on the burnt of the catastrophes of the first age, but culturally there isn't much that separates their experiences from their parents, far less than separates both from their grandparents who had known the terrors that stalked cuivenen and made the choice to leave. but here already we encounter a hitch because the generation of finwe's children was split between those who became exiles and those who stayed in aman, and even fëanor himself was probably more amanyar then beleriandim due to his very quick death, never having really known the long defeat.

but then we come to the great-grandchildren and here it becomes a huge mess because celebrimbor and idril were probably childhood friends but one of them spent like five times more in middle earth than the other, and no one could argue that orodreth¹ and celebrian (first cousins) were in the same generation except in the most literal family tree sense. it seems easiest to divide them between those who had an impact on the first age (idril, maeglin, orodreth) and those who mostly hadn't but made their mark on the second (celebrimbor, gil-galad², celebrian), but even here, celebrian was born into a far different world than the rest, and even this breakdown is made more complex if we take into account that some of them had known at least a little bit of aman before the darkening and not the others. and then if finrod had a child in aman, he or she would have a completely different set of experiences still.

(I go by ¹the Orodreth son of Angrod version and ²the Gil Galad son of Fingon version)

and then of course the usefulness of family trees breaks down completely because elrond (grandchild of a grandchild) is visibly of the same sociological generation as celebrimbor&co (not elros though), finduilas should be categorised along with maeglin and eärendil is unclassifiable (actually in some ways one might try to put him along with elros, despite their opposite choices, as people who were active at the turn of the ages and remained as symbols later on, but ultimately their situations are very different in many ways.)

and arwen, of course, is born three millennia after all her first cousins are dead, but here we've got morality entering the picture.

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

“And when she learned of Finwë all that had befallen since her departure (for she had given no heed to it, nor asked tidings, until then) she was greatly moved; and she said to Finwë in her thought: ‘I erred in leaving thee and our son, or at least in not soon returning after brief repose; for had I done so he might have grown wiser. But the children of Indis shall redress his errors and therefore I am glad they should have being, and Indis hath my love. How should I bear grudge against one who received what I rejected and cherish what I abandoned.’“ - J.R.R. Tolkien, Morgoth's Ring, Laws and Customs Among the Eldar

@finweanladiesweek day 1 » INDIS & MÍRIEL THERINDË

[ID: an edit comprised of four posters in dark and light browns accented with gold and silver.

1: Roseline Lawrence, a ugandan-south sudanese model with dark skin and long coily dark hair. She is plus-size, wearing gold makeup and looking over her shoulder with one hand raised. She is framed by a gold rectangle, with gold text at the bottom reading "indis" in all caps. Below that, text in varying yellow shades reads "great; valiant woman," "second wife of finwë," and "“She was a Vanya, close kin of Ingwë the High King, golden-haired and tall, and in all ways unlike Míriel" / 2: A detail from a painting showing golden embroidered cloth draping down from above. Yellowish-orange text in a transparent brown box reads "“...when Indis saw Finwë climbing the paths of the Mountain, and the light of Laurelin was behind him as a glory, without forethought she sang suddenly in great joy, and her voice went up as a song of the lirulin in the sky. Then Finwë heard that song falling from above, and he looked up and saw Indis in the golden light, and he knew in that moment that she loved him and had long done so" / 3: A detail from a painting showing draped white and silver cloth. Silver text in the same format as Image 2 shows the same passage as the caption of the edit / Thando Hopa, a xhosa-sotho south african woman with albinism. She is looking straight at the viewer and is wrapped in a white robe that falls over her head, though she holds it out of her face. Same format as Image 1, but the frame and text are silver, and the text reads "míriel," "jewel-daughter," "first wife of finwë," and "She was a Noldorin Elda of slender and graceful form, and of gentle disposition, though . . .she could show an ultimate obstinacy that counsel or command would only make more obdurate" /End ID]