Editing Noldor (section)

==In culture==
''[[Nightfall in Middle-Earth]]'', a 1998 studio album by the German [[power metal]] band [[Blind Guardian]], contained multiple references to the Noldor and the events they experience within the narrative of ''[[The Silmarillion]]''. For example, "Face the Truth" has Fingolfin tell how he crossed the icy Helcaraxë, while in "Noldor (Dead Winter Reigns)" he regrets having left Valinor; "Battle of Sudden Flame" recalls the battle of Dagor Bragollach, which marked the turning point of the Noldor's war against Morgoth in the Dark Lord's favour; "The Dark Elf" recounts the birth of Maeglin, the son of Fingolfin's daughter Aredhel and Eöl the titular Dark Elf; "Nom the Wise" is an elegy by [[Beren]] to his friend Finrod Felagund.<ref name="Ferretti">{{cite web |last=Ferretti |first=Marco |title=Blind Guardian – Nightfall In Middle-Earth |url=https://souterraine.org/portfolio/blind-guardian-nightfall-in-middle-earth/ |website=Souterraine |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=it |archive-date=19 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919211038/https://souterraine.org/portfolio/blind-guardian-nightfall-in-middle-earth/ |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r396625|pure_url=yes}} Nightfall in Middle Earth: AllMusic Guide Review]</ref> The Tolkien scholar [[Bradford Lee Eden]] writes that "although one can assume that Tolkien was not a headbanger",<ref name="Eden 2010">{{cite book |last=Eden |first=Bradford Lee |author-link=Bradford Lee Eden |title=Middle-earth Minstrel: Essays on Music in Tolkien |publisher=[[McFarland & Company|McFarland]] |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-7864-4814-2 |page=134}}</ref> he finds that in the opinion of his students, the "driving energy" of the power metal sound is appropriate for the stories: "The music conveys rage and despair, which fits lyrics such as 'The doom of the Noldor drew near/ The words of a banished king, “I swear revenge!”'"<ref name="Eden 2010"/> Eden adds that this facilitates discussion of [[Christianity in Middle-earth|Tolkien's Christian view]] of the [[fall of man]].<ref name="Eden 2010"/>