Manwe's question doesn't seem impolite to me nor do I think that Manwe is seeking to command Feanor. Manwe simply wants an answer.
Now Tulkas on the other hand does seem prepared to exert pressure on Feanor.
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Speak O Noldo, yea or nay! But who shall deny Yavanna? And did not the light of the Silmarils come from her work in the beginning?
Silmarillion, Of the Flight of the Noldor
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