Feanor - Overrated?

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Hmmm... Grwoing up without a mother.. being evi... I just don't seem to get the link. If we are going to blame it upon the parents, Finwe did little or nothing to calm his son down, even when he turned nasty against his brothers. What I don't see is the problme with evil. I am fascinated by evil as a phenomenon and from what I have seen, it is never the entirely dominant part of a person. I could, right now, anytime, say that Hitler and Stalin ahd many good sides, for example both were genious politicians, Hitler was a phenomenal speaker and his Soviet adversary was a good golf player. That I say while I am aware of waht they did towards people, people like you and me who had done nothing towards them. I say this to make the situation around Fëanor a little more complex. He was, I should think, intoxicated by his own greatness and glory, took advice from no one and who wouldn't have had a boosted confidence? He had made the Silmarils and otehr precious item, he had dared revolt against teh valar , crossed the ocean and beaten Melkor in battle. Everybody has felt that taht invincible and great at some time and his feeling comes out strongly at comments like: "Maybe you will see that Illuvatar has lit in em a stronger flame than you think!" He is a human, and a masterly portrayed one.

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