Then Fëanor swore a terrible oath. Straightway his seven sons leaped to his side and each took the selfsame oath; and red as blood shone their drawn swords in the glare of the torches. "Be he foe or friend, be he foul or clean, brood of Morgoth or bright Vala, Elda or Maia or Aftercomer, Man yet unborn upon Middle-earth, neither law, nor love, nor league of swords, dread nor danger, not Doom itself, shall defend him from Fëanor [read: Fëanáro], and Fëanor's kin [read: Fëanáro's kin], whoso hideth or hoardeth, or in hand taketh, dfinding, keepeth or afar casteth a Silmaril. This wear we all: death we will deal him ere Day's ending, woe unto world's end! Our word hear thou, Eru Allfather! To the everlasting Darkness doom us if our deed faileth. On the holy mountain hear in witness and our vow remember, Manwë and Varda!" Thus spoke [Maedhros] and Maglor, and [Celegorm], Curufin and [Caranthir], [Amrod] and [Amras], princes of the Noldor. But by that name none should swear and oath, good or evil, nor in anger call upon such witness, and many quailed to hear the fell words. For so sworn, food or evil, an oath may not be broken, and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.
★ Memory: The whole scene is witnessed by Fingon as a bystander; he is a part of the crowd surrounding this, only a few feet away from Fëanor at this point, so he has an unobscured view of him. Near him stand Fingolfin his father, Turgon his brother, Finarfin his uncle and Finrod and Galadriel, Finarfin's children. Directly next to him stand Aegnor and Angrod, also Finarfin's children.
The crowd around them is excited and there is an atmosphere of revolution around them. The atmosphere takes a drop and a terrified gasp when the oath starts, that spreads slowly until even the people in the back have realized what is going on. Fingon's own feelings go from being excited for departure and new things to a lot of shock and pain when Fëanor's words register, and the feeling increases massively when Maedhros leaps up to repeat the oath, and then his brothers.
★ Learned: - Maitimo didn't lie when he said that he has an issue. - Also not like he thought that his uncle was entirely sane, but gosh so cray - Eru Allfather, and that his name should not really be spoken - Likewise that using the Valar as witnesses is a really dumb move - This scene also happened in the darkness, so it must be before the Eagle thing but after the childhood/youth memories. - The realization that Angrod and Aegnor seem to have been of special importance to him.
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7 [Significant neutral] Fëanor's Oath
Date: 2015-01-15 05:48 pm (UTC)★ Memory:
The whole scene is witnessed by Fingon as a bystander; he is a part of the crowd surrounding this, only a few feet away from Fëanor at this point, so he has an unobscured view of him. Near him stand Fingolfin his father, Turgon his brother, Finarfin his uncle and Finrod and Galadriel, Finarfin's children. Directly next to him stand Aegnor and Angrod, also Finarfin's children.
The crowd around them is excited and there is an atmosphere of revolution around them. The atmosphere takes a drop and a terrified gasp when the oath starts, that spreads slowly until even the people in the back have realized what is going on. Fingon's own feelings go from being excited for departure and new things to a lot of shock and pain when Fëanor's words register, and the feeling increases massively when Maedhros leaps up to repeat the oath, and then his brothers.
★ Learned:
- Maitimo didn't lie when he said that he has an issue.
- Also not like he thought that his uncle was entirely sane, but gosh so cray
- Eru Allfather, and that his name should not really be spoken
- Likewise that using the Valar as witnesses is a really dumb move
- This scene also happened in the darkness, so it must be before the Eagle thing but after the childhood/youth memories.
- The realization that Angrod and Aegnor seem to have been of special importance to him.