Babes in the Wood

[Inderjit Sanghera]

Maedhros and Maglor reforming? It was the other way around. They were getting progressively worse as the Oath went on. None of the sons of Feanor abandoned Elured or Elurin, it was Celegorm’s servants, out of malice for the fall of their lord, maybe. Maedhros later went out of his way to look for them. Maedhros and Maglor seem to me to be very noble Elves. They too control of the place where Morgoth was most likely to attack, and Maedhros effectively offered himself up as ‘bait’ so to speak, in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. I think Maglor loved Elrond and Elros too just abandon them for no good reason. I think that he and Maedhros may have abandoned Elrond and Elros before they went to steal the Silmaril, not wanting the twins to be wit them in their fey moods.

I’m going to diverge a bit here, and talk about the sons of Feanor
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I really don’t think the Sons of Feanor were that bad except for Celegorm and Curufin maybe. Maedhros was probably my favourite Elf, he is noble strong, red haired and supposedly had a great body. (Hence his Quenyarized mother name-Maitimo-well shaped one.) All this without working out in the gym. He was also said to be the handsomest of his brothers. It surprises me that he was never married.
Maglor, was, a very kind and noble Elf. I think that he joined in the rebellion for the love of his father and his wanting to return to Aman could by symbolising this. Caranthir also seems to be a reformed character. He treated Haleth with respect ,and it seems that he liked men quite a bit, hence his accepting of the Ulfangians into his army. Amrod and Amras seem to be rather young and innocent. Amrod never really wanted to go to M-E, and his fathers deeds shocked him, and so when the Feanorian ships landed in Drengist, he slept on the boat, in order to return to Nerdanel, but Feanor burnt the ships at night, unwittingly killing his own son. Celegorm was also pretty strong of body (hence his Quenya father-name, Turkafinwe) and it seems that he may have been good once upon a time, hence his nickname ‘the fair’. The only ‘bad’ son of Feanor, in my opinion, was Curufin, he seemed to be really cruel and nasty.
One thing that I would like Tolkien to have written more about was what Feanor and his sons were like before the rebellion and Oath-that way we could be able to see what they were really like, and when they weren’t under the influence of that Oath. Sorry, about the divergence, but I just had to get that off my chest.