Editing Fëanor (section)

=== Return to Beleriand ===

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[[File:Elvish_Migrations_and_Kindreds.svg|thumb|upright=2|[[Arda (Middle-earth)|Arda]] in the [[First Age]]. The Elves migrated across [[Middle-earth]]; many of them travelled to [[Valinor]] (green arrows to the left). Finwë's killing by [[Melkor]] led in turn to the [[Flight of the Noldor]] (red arrows to the right) back to [[Beleriand]] in Middle-earth.<!--<ref name="Clark Timmons 2000">{{cite book |first1=George |last1=Clark |first2=Daniel |last2=Timmons |title=J. R. R. Tolkien and his Literary Resonances |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-313-30845-1 |page=176 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ES0Hs75IVg0C&q=Finwe&pg=PA176}}</ref>-->]]

To get to Middle-earth, Fëanor goes to the shores of Aman, and asks the seafaring [[Teleri]] for their aid. When they refuse, Fëanor orders the Noldor to steal the ships. The Teleri resist, and many of them are killed. The battle became known as the Kinslaying at Alqualondë, or the first kinslaying.<ref name="Of the Flight of the Noldor" group=T/><!--<ref name="Fontenot 2019">{{cite web |last=Fontenot |first=Megan |url=https://www.tor.com/2019/03/07/exploring-the-people-of-middle-earth-miriel-historian-of-the-noldor-pt-1/|title=Exploring the People of Middle-earth: Míriel, Historian of the Noldor (Part 1) |date=7 March 2019 |website=[[Tor.com]] |access-date=19 March 2021}}</ref>--> His sons later commit two other acts of warfare against Elves in [[Middle-earth]] in his name. In repentance, Finarfin, Finwë's third son, takes his host and turns back. They are accepted by the Valar, and Finarfin rules as High-King of the Noldor in Valinor. The remaining Elves, those who follow Fëanor and [[Fingolfin]], become subject to the Doom of [[Mandos]], that they will come to harm if they continue their rebellion against the Valar. There are not enough ships to carry all the Noldor across the sea, so Fëanor and his sons lead the first group.<ref name="Of the Flight of the Noldor" group=T/> Upon arriving in the far west of [[Beleriand]], they decide to burn the ships and leave Fingolfin and his people behind. Fingolfin, furious, returns to Beleriand by the long and hard land route, via the northern ice.<ref name="Of the Flight of the Noldor" group=T/>

Morgoth summons his armies from his fortress of [[Angband (Middle-earth)|Angband]] and attacks Fëanor's encampment in Mithrim. This battle was called the Battle under the Stars, or ''[[Dagor-nuin-Giliath]]'', for the Sun and Moon had not yet been made. The Noldor win the battle. Fëanor presses on toward Angband with his sons. He comes within sight of Angband, but is ambushed by a force of [[Balrog]]s, with few Elves about him. He fights mightily with [[Gothmog]], captain of the Balrogs. His sons come upon the Balrogs with a great force of Elves, and drive them off; but Fëanor knows his wounds are fatal. He curses Morgoth thrice, but with the eyes of death, he sees that his Elves, unaided, will never throw down the dark towers of [[Thangorodrim]].<ref name="Of the Flight of the Noldor" group="T"/>