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Finarfin is a fictional character in
J. R. R. Tolkien's
legendarium, featured in
The Silmarillion.
Family
He was the third son and youngest child of
Finwë. Finarfin's mother was
Indis. His half-brother was
Fëanor and his full brother
Fingolfin. His sisters were
Findis and
Irimë. He married
Eärwen, princess of the
Teleri. He had four children:
Finrod Felagund,
Angrod,
Aegnor and
Galadriel.
Orodreth appears as one of Finarfin's sons in the published
Silmarillion. In Tolkien's later writings however he clearly is
Angrod's son.
Christopher Tolkien used an older form in the
Silmarillion, but later described this as a mistake. Finarfin was said to be the fairest and wisest of Finwë's sons. Like all of Finwë's sons, Finarfin founded his own
house. Uniquely among the Noldor he and his descendants all had golden hair inherited from his mother, so his house was sometimes called "The Golden House of Finarfin".
Eventual fate
After the death of
Finwë, he departed with his brothers
Fëanor and
Fingolfin for
Middle-earth, but turned back when
Mandos pronounced the
Doom of the Noldor. Finarfin became King of the residual
Noldor and presumably still rules from
Tirion on
Túna. He was the captain of the Noldor of
Aman in the decisive
War of Wrath against
Morgoth.
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Trivia
- In Tolkien's fictional language of Quenya, his name is Arafinwë, "Noble-Finwë".
- Finarfin was called Finrod in earlier versions of the Middle-earth mythology, and his son Finrod Felagund Inglor Felagund. As such he appears in the first edition of The Lord of the Rings as Finrod. This was changed in later editions, but not all references to Inglor were removed: see Gildor Inglorion.
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