Editing Finwë and Míriel (section)

=== In Valinor ===

[[File:Finwë Lozenge.png|thumb|100px|Lozenge of Finwë, King of the Noldor, with sixteen points touching the rim, indicating his rank in [[Elvish heraldry]]{{sfn|Hammond|Scull|1998|pp=187–198 }} ]]

Finwë marries Míriel, the most skilful of the Noldor in needlework and weaving. Míriel gives birth to their only child, Curufinwë, commonly called [[Fëanor]]; he inherits her skill, becoming the most gifted and brilliant of all the Noldor, the mightiest in crafts, especially the making of jewels.{{sfn|Fontenot|2019a}}{{sfn|Fontenot|2019b}}<ref name="Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalië" group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1977}}, ch. 5 "Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalië"</ref>

Míriel, an immortal elf, is so exhausted by the birth, "consumed in spirit and body" by the fiery creative energy of her son Fëanor, that she wilfully gives up her spirit.{{sfn|Dickerson|2013|pp=212–213}} She thus becomes the first sentient being in the blessed realm of [[Aman (J. R. R. Tolkien)|Aman]] to experience death. This leaves Finwë on his own, not through his own choice; such a thing had never occurred before, and he chooses to remarry.<ref name="Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor" group=T/> His second wife is Indis of the [[Vanyar]], the Fair-Elves of Ingwë. She bears him two sons: [[Fingolfin]] and Finarfin, and two daughters: Findis and Lalwen, their names echoing his.<ref name="Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor" group=T/><ref name="shibboleth" group=T/>

Fëanor comes to resent Finwë's other sons, his half-brothers; there is constant strife between them. Fëanor makes the [[Silmarils]], three star-like jewels that embody some of the light of the [[Two Trees of Valinor]].<ref name="Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor" group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1977}}, ch. 6 "Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor"</ref><ref name="Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor" group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1977}}, ch. 7 "Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor"</ref><ref name="Laws and Customs among the Eldar" group=T/>

During the Dark Lord [[Morgoth|Melkor]]'s attempt to corrupt the Noldor, Finwë tries to exert a moderating influence over his people and lead them back to the Valar. When Fëanor is exiled from the Elvish city of Tirion after he openly threatens Fingolfin, Finwë goes with him to their northern fortress, [[Formenos]]. There he is the first to be murdered in Valinor when Melkor, seeking the Silmarils, kills him at the doors of Formenos.<ref name="Of the Flight of the Noldor" group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1977}}, ch. 9 "Of the Flight of the Noldor"</ref> This directly leads to the [[Flight of the Noldor]],{{sfn|Clark|Timmons|2000|p=176}} the disastrous rebellion of the Noldor against the Valar, which in turn leads the First Kinslaying, when Elves killed other Elves.<ref name="Of the Flight of the Noldor" group=T/>