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Headcanon: Although Calaquendi are overall taller, stronger, and in better shape due to being exposed to Treelight, they have worse night vision. Sindarin and Avarin elves can see things clearly with no more light then the stars drifting through the treetops, but an Aman-born Noldo has could see only slightly better than a Man.

This means there were probably quite a few survivors from Doriath, as although the Feanorian army was more experienced, they didn’t know their way around the caves of Menegroth and couldn’t see beyond the torches the carried with them.

The Tale of Amarie

I wrote a story about Amarie, and it seemed like a good place to include my headcanons about the Noldor who stayed in Tirion as well.
Basically, a city where three-quarters or more of the population is gone to a terrible fate is a lot different from one that has had exactly one death ever.

Headcanon: Due to the Silmarils, the nauglamir*, and the rings of power, ‘Noldorin jewelry’ became a byword for 'gift that will lead to big problems’ among elves in the late Second Age and Third Age.

This also led to a superstition among Silvan and Sindarin elves against any jewelery made by Noldor.
* Made by dwarves, but owned by Finrod, a Noldo, so it counts.

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The album "All This Bad Blood" by Bastille is completely about the Silmarillion. I have paired each song with an event/character, though feel free to propose closer matches.

"Pompeii" - The fight against Sauron echoing the fight against Morgoth.
- 'And the walls kept tumbling down in the city that we love,’ the destruction of Formenos and Gondolin and Ost-in-Edhil
- ‘Does it almost feel like nothing changed at all,’ refusing a powerful Ainur’s offer of knowledge and throwing him out the city.
- ‘Does it almost feel like you’ve been here before,’ the High King of the Noldor rides out to fight the Dark Lord
- ‘How am I going to be an optimist about this’ no actions of elves did anything more than buy time last Age.
"Things We Lost in the Fire" - Fingolfin’s host watching the burning of the ships at Losgar. ‘We were born with nothing / And we sure as hell have nothing now’ but we’re not going to turn back just because it’s hopeless
"Bad Blood" - Fingon and Maedhros. ‘That those are the days that bind us / Together, forever’ and ‘All this bad blood here / won’t you let it dry.’
"Overjoyed" - Feanor swearing the Oath and convincing the Noldor to follow him across the sea, taking vengeance rather than grief for Finwe. ‘When you listen to my words / I see them sinking in / Oh, I see them crawling underneath your skin.’
"These Streets" - Maeglin in Gondolin, the city his mother told him all about, the city where Aredhel and Eol both died. ‘We have stained these walls / with our mistakes and flaws’
"Weight of Living, Pt. II" The sons of Feanor and the second and third kinslayings. ‘Oh, tell yourself this is how it's going to be’ ‘Now that you are here, suddenly you fear / You've lost control.’ Doriath falls, and Sirion falls the same, and this will keep happening.
"Icarus" - Feanor, obviously ‘You put up your defenses when you leave / You leave because you're certain / Of who you want to be.’ as well as ‘Icarus is flying / Towards an early grave’
"Oblivion" - Nienor when Glaurung reveals who she really is. ‘Are you going to age with grace? / Or only to wake and hide your face?’
"Flaws" - Nerdanel and Feanor. ‘You have always worn your flaws upon your sleeve / And I have always buried them deep beneath the ground.’ Nerdanel, the wise, strong willed but seeking to understand. Feanor, the greatest of the children of Illuvatar, never admitted he had a single flaw.
"Daniel in the Den" - Finrod leaving on the Quest for the Silmaril, for the title and ‘Felled in the night by the ones you think you love’ re: Curufin and Celegorm leading Nargothrond against him, and 'For every king that died they would crown another' about Orodreth
"Laura Palmer" - Turin, realizing he’s caused yet another tragedy and going to start a new life under a new name. ‘The night was all you had / You ran into the night from all you had’
- 'If you had your gun / Would you shoot it at the sky? / Why - to see where your bullet would fall / Or would it come down at all?" Is definitely Beleg's death
"Get Home" - Celegorm and Curufin after being kicked out of Nargothrond ‘To the morning we're cast out but I know I'll land here again / How am I gonna get myself back home?’ Fleeing somewhere that was supposed to be safe for the second time in a decade.
- Also, 'The birds are mocking me / They curse my return' is definitely Celegorm
"Poet" - Maglor, author of the Noldolante ‘I have written you down now / You will live forever’
"The Silence" Miriel, fading from exhaustion in Lorien as her husband and son wait for her to get better. ‘Now you've hit a wall and you hit it hard’
"Haunt (Demo)" - Fingon and Maedhros. ‘I will try to love you / It's not like I'm above you.’ They both fought at Aqualonde, Fingon won’t put that all on Maedhros.
"Weight of Living, Pt. I" - Sons of Feanor and the Oath and the kinslayings. ‘Your albatross, shoot it down, shoot it down / When you just can't shake the heavy weight of living.’ Forswear the Oath, or argue that you should wait, or maybe you can’t live with yourself after all.
"Sleepsong" - Elrond and Elros with captor/foster father Maglor, who is at least better than being lost on your own in the wilderness at age six. ‘All you want is someone onto whom you can cling / Your mother warned of strangers and the dangers they may bring.’
"Durban Skies" - Celeborn showing Galadriel around Menegroth. ‘It’s alive / Now I understand your lives’
"Laughter Lines" - Finrod and Amarie. He crossed the sea and she stayed in Tirion. They expected defeating Morgoth to only take a few years, and then he’d come back for her. ‘I'll see you in the future when we're older / And we are full of stories to be told.’

Current Music: "All This Bad Blood" by Bastille

A Spotify playlist for the house of Feanor

Nerdanel: “Set Fire to the Rain” by Adele - “I set fire to the rain / Watched it pour as I touched your face / Well, it burned while I cried / ‘Cause I heard it screaming out your name”

Feanor: “Burn The Fleet” by Thrice - “Burn the fleet, we’ll be heroes or ghosts / But we won’t be turned around”

Maedhros: “Into the Fire” by Asking Alexandria - “I wouldn’t take back a moment / Not one miserable moment / I’ll give it all, 'til there’s nothing / I’d walk into the fire”

Maglor: “Through the Fire and the Flames” by DragonForce - “Running back from the mid-morning light / There’s a burning in my heart / We’re banished from a time in a fallen land”

Celegorm: “Firestarter” by The Prodigy - “I’m the fear addicted, danger illustrated / I’m a firestarter, twisted firestarter”

Caranthir: “Girl on Fire” by Alicia Keys “They can see the flame that’s in her eyes / Watch her when she’s lighting up the night / Nobody knows that she’s a lonely girl”

Curufin: “Arsonist’s Lullaby” by Hozier - “But my peace has always depended / On all the ashes in my wake”

Amras: “Things We Lost in the Fire” by Bastille “We were born with nothing / And we sure as hell have nothing now”

Amrod: “Fire” by Kasabien - “I’m coming, I tell ya / I caught the bullet from the heavens to the one you serve”

Celebrimbor: “Burnin’ For You” by Blue Oyster Cult - “I’m living for giving the devil his due / And I’m burning, I’m burning, I’m burning for you”

Bonus not-quite-Feanorian:

Elrond: “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel - “We didn’t start the fire / No we didn’t light it / But we tried to fight it”

Headcanon that Caranthir is actually a woman.

Caranthir is described as angry and quarrelsome. However, she is shown to establish good trade relationships with a wide variety of people. Can you say gendered double standards for behavior?
Caranthir the dark, with her cousins Aredhel the White Lady of the Noldor, and the radiant Artanis.
“The seven sons of Feanor” came about due to a translation issue. From Sindarin to Taliska to Haladin, there’s room for a gender neutral plural to become masculine (think of Spanish “hijos”).
When Haleth is rescued by Caranthir, she greets the elf as “Lord Caranthir.” Haleth expects elven features to be delicate and beautiful, and a suit of plate armor makes distinguishing body types impossible.
- Caranthir: “Lady.”
- Haleth: “Yes, I suppose I am the Lady of my house since my father and brother died last week.”
- Caranthir: “Sorry to hear that but I actually meant I’m female.”
Haleth and Caranthir might enter into a romantic relationship, but since they can’t have children, it never makes it into history books.

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