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allthecactifindahome t1_iu91317 wrote

Look, there are maybe 5 people on this good earth who love Feanor more than I do, but 'in all of fiction' is...a bit much.

I also think he was basically right about almost everything, but I won't get into that further than to say: Well, the Valar aren't human, and I don't think they understand the Children of Iluvatar well enough to rule over them competently. The elves shouldn't have been brought to Aman to begin with, they shouldn't have let all of creation except their own little paradise go to shit, and they should have at the absolute least clarified the extent to which they felt entitled to interfere with the elves' internal affairs before bringing them over.

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craftygamergirl t1_iu93xqo wrote

They literally sat there while a spider killed the 2 trees and their brother invaded and murdered Feanor's dad. What. The. Fuck. Of course he was pissed!

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allthecactifindahome t1_iu954wj wrote

It's not entirely germane to an evaluation of Feanor and his speech, but it's interesting that the Valar only decided not to let Morgoth destroy Middle Earth after Earendil proved that holding a silmaril lets you reach Aman in spite of the Valar’s defenses, and Morgoth still had two. That's the kind of selfless justice I like in my angelic overlords, for sure!

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