[Eol]

I would have to agree that he is a way , an anti-hero. However I will not go as far as to call him evil or good. Good and Evil are merely points of view. And the whole satan( meaning ANY advisary) thing, were you meaning to compare Lucifer to Melkor or to Feanor? I feel if you were to look at that in a mythological perspective, Melkor would be more befitting for the Lucifer part rather then Feanor, for his only a being that does have faults and weakness and can die.

In the beinging of the Silmarillion it mentioned that Feanor was known for having a firy spirit. In every essenes that is true. He had a tempter, Melkor found this out the hard when he had the door slammed in his face attempting to get to the Silamrils.

I feel the whole purpose to writing Feanor was the take all of those human traits that we love and harbor ourselves and create a perfectly mundane character. THere is an intensity to this guy, unfortunatly no too many people dicuss or devote any artword to the inspiration.
To the comment of being overrated....well I feel that was improper and unclear. This "elf" did a great deal of stuff, created turmoil, the silmarils and threatened Fingolfin's life. If you really want to know more of this guy, I have cliffnotes of the Silmarillion on my website wwww.geocities.com/thestyl/tolkien_index.com

I personally find Feanor extremely fasinating for several reason: one being that he is a very intense character, reacting to his environment, he is vurnable to his own flaws and his very essense can be found with other mythiological characters.
If you were to find such characters, who would they be and why would you associate Feanor to them?

[ July 11, 2002: Message edited by: Eol ]