#i both believe Nerdanel deserved better & ship Feanor x Nerdanel

[symphonyofsilence]

Even though Nerdanel & Fëanor's marriage had been over before Fëanor's condemnation & it was entirely Fëanor's own fault & Nerdanel has every right to send him back to Mandos in several matchstick boxes even if he gets reincarnated & the whole thing seems very fair to Nerdanel, it's still sad that Fëanor's marriage officially ended in the exact same way that his parents' marriage ended & left him traumatised all his life & they're the only divorced elves in Arda.

I could go on & on for days about how horrible & wrong & disgusting the handling of Finwë & Míriel's issue was & how even though Fëanor did so much wrong to so many people & started a chain of catastrophic events & should be punished for them, if Melkor & Sauron got a second chance, so should he. (How else is he going to make up for his mistakes? & I think seeing his sons' moral downfalls, struggles, pains, mental issues, deaths & horrible fates & how they unwillingly helped Melkor's cause (whom they swore to destroy) & how in the end they lost their rights to the Silmarils & it was all for nothing & knowing he was the reason & all his loved ones probably blame him too & not being able to do anything is punishment enough. He went through the same thing as Hurin. He probably learnt his lesson. Fair, he shouldn't get reincarnated before the people he wronged, but he should at some point.)

But regardless, what i wanted to point out was that, whether it's Fëanor being a bad husband & ending up in the Halls of Mandos forever, or the sons of Fëanor relentlessly following their father's cause & burning themselves & everyone else with the same destructive fire, or Celebrimbor the smith being decieved by a dark lord in disguise & his best creations leading to his demise, or Elwing choosing the Silmarils over his children & people just like Dior, or Eärendil whose parents left him to go to Valinor going to numerous voyages in search of them & Valinor & leaving his own children behind,

It's a series of children repeating their parents' mistakes & ending up with the same fates.