Everyone Dies (Except Galadriel)

Character Focus: Fingolfin

I hate it when professors are like "oh by the way we have an exam in two days" like no James that's not how this works, you're supposed to warn me.

I'm back, bitches. 

I'm too lazy to think of a good dedication so I'm giving it to @InkAndAsh because she's my girlfriend and I love her. 

I'm actually really sick and have been for like, over a week. I have a concert on Saturday and I feel like I'm gonna be that one annoying audience member who keeps coughing really loud only I'm not an audience member I'm a second violinist smack in the middle of the orchestra...

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So according to the Tolkien Wiki, Fingolfin was the most valiant of the sons of Finwë. Which is nice I guess? We've got Feänor who's the most...skilled at making things...(?), Fingolfin who's the most valiant and then Finarfin who's, uh...the prettiest? 

Like, all he was really known for was being a blonde because Noldor are supposed to have dark hair but he didn't...I think because his mom was a Vanya? And possibly blonde? 

If not then Finwë has a bit of 'splanin to do. 

Anyway. We're not on Finarfin yet so we can worry about that later. 

So. Fingolfin. Who has a lot of...valor. 

He had some other names that don't really ever get used. Fingolfin is a Sindarin version of the name his dad gave him. 

Weird elf naming traditions, remember?

And you know what else Fingolfin has a lot of? 

Sex, apparently.

His eldest kid is Fingon, who's a pretty rad dude. Despite the fact that Feänor invented swords for the sole purpose of threatening Fingolfin's life, their eldest sons apparently got on very well.

Very well. 

You know what, since the Silm was never actually finished, we can't really be sure what Maedhros and Fingon's relationship was, exactly. I mean obviously they're BFFs but it never says that they weren't more than that, and neither one ever got married. 

They suuuuuuuuuure spent a lot of time together while everyone else was getting married though. Just saying. 

Y'all get the idea, right. Yes, I might have a shipping problem but Tolkien practically wrote this ship for me, ok? 

"But Sarissë aren't they cousins?"

Shh. Half cousins. They are half cousins. And for a book that has two people fall madly in love with each other after staring at each other, motionless, in a forest for a few years and then suggests that that's somehow romantic, is this really that weird? 

How do I keep swapping tenses. Jesus. 

Anyway, so the second son is Turgon who I can't say a lot about right now because of spoilers, but let's just go with "he was a pretty cool dude" for now. Because it's true, he is. 

Was. 

Whatever. 

The third kid Aredhel is important later too, mostly because she apparently has shit taste in men. And likes to dance barefoot I think, which is a common theme. 

I'm serious. 

Luthien, Aredhel, Idril...they all did a lot of dancing around barefoot. And I'm pretty sure they're all related too, somehow. Aredhel and Idril are aunt and niece later on and then Luthien is Thingol's daughter, and Thingol's niece married Finarfin I think so like...at least by marriage? 

I'm getting off-topic again. Bottom line is, right now all you need to know about Aredhel is that she liked to dance barefoot, was Fingolgin's kid, and will prove to have shitty choice in husbands. 

Their last kid is Argon who does literally nothing and then dies at some point. 

So that's fun. 

Fingolfin was pretty cool I guess. Even though Feänor like, publically humiliated him and tried to murder him with his newly invented swords, Fingolfin was like "we're half brothers by blood but we're full on brothers in heart" or something. (That's an actual quote from somewhere I'm just paraphrasing) So I guess he's also either really forgiving or doesn't know how to take a hint, or maybe both. 

Feänor: I want you to literally die.
Fingolfin: Ok I love u bro.

Which is more than I can say for my sister who's been mad at me for two days because I accidentally fed her bagel to my dog. 

Oops.