Blessed Valar, Jedi! That's all I can say to that magnificent post!
I think what people don't realize is that with great power also comes a great capability to "fall." When you get someone so extraordinarily gifted as Fëanor, it is doubly grievous when they fall. I'm sure that Fingon instigating the Kinslaying or Finrod instigating the Kinslaying wouldn't have garnered that much of a reaction. The reason that the reaction was that big was that it was Fëanor who did it, the seemingly epitome of perfection among the Elves. It can be compared to the stereotypical brilliant student at all of our schools, the perfectionist who always gets A's, suddenly failing a final exam, or something like that. It is even more shocking because such a "perfect" person fell. The same thing can apply with Fëanor.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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