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Quote:<hr> First King of the Noldor: Finwe.
Next person called King of the Noldor: Fingolfin
Feanor is never said to be King of the Noldor (it only states he claimed this title, and it states that the majority of the Noldor did not accept this claim and refused to renounce Fingolfin (who also claimed the title).
Finarfin is not ever called King of the Noldor, (though he did rule the Noldor left in Aman after he abandoned the Flight).<hr></blockquote>
We just went through this on Xenite.Org's Tolkien and Inklings forum!
I thought I had given sufficient proofs to show that Feanor was indeed King of the Noldor. Maedhros, after all, could not have ceded his claim to the kingship if he hadn't inherited one from hs father. And the text states clearly that "therefore even as Mandos foretold the House of Feanor were called the Dispossessed, because the overlordship passed from it, the elder, to the house of Fingolfin, both in Elende and in Beleriand".
Who is called exactly what is being way too picky. All these people were, in fact, King of the Noldor and/or King of the Noldor-in-Exile.
The Silmarillion says clearly that "Finarfin was set to rule the remnant of the Noldor in the Blessed Realm". If Fingolfin, who is only said to have "ruled the Noldor in Tirion", was a King of the Noldor even after Feanor claimed the Kingship, then so, too, was Finarfin.
Tolkien did not anticipate that someday there would be any demand he provide the precise wording "Finarfin was King of the Noldor in Aman" and "Maedhros inherited the Kingship from his father Feanor."
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