#remarks

To start with, Finwë marries Indis during the early teenage equivalent years of Fëanor. Part of the reason was Finwë needing a partner to help with the ruling of an entire people, peacetime notwithstanding, and hoping for Fëanor to have a grounding maternal influence in his life. Spending much of his early life seeing these rumors and the Statute of Míriel coming into existence had a more lasting impact on Fëanor and his desire to dislike anything Indis related on principle outweighs the potential help that Indis tried to provide in the early days of their relationship.

Findis’ is born around Fëanor hitting his late adolescent period, which drives him to spend more time away from this family and leads him into Nerdanel’s path. They marry shortly after reaching adulthood, and the rest of Findis’ childhood passes away without much note.

On the next topic of ages, I faced a lot of difficulty on deciding who would be the olde, primarily from Maedhros’ line in the Silmarillion: “Still the kingship would rightly come to you, the eldest here of the house of Finwë, and not the least wise.” I put a lot of thought into this, and will be placing Maedhros as older, if only by what amounts to several moments, than Fingolfin. The line Maedhros speaks will then refer less to physical age and more so to being among the older generation and closer in bloodline to Finwë.

After the courtship and marriage of Fingolfin and Anairë Lalwen is born, and as she is over the halfway point to adulthood Fingon is born. It’s near this point where the rivalry between Fëanor and Fingolfin starts, though it will take several centuries before it reaches the animosity noted at the end of the Years of the Trees. Maglor then has a gap of several years between him and Fingon.

Before Maglor has reached maturity, Celegorm and Caranthir are born, being near scandalously close from the current traditions of waiting until the child is near, or at, adulthood before having another child.

Turgon is born as Caranthir firmly reaches adolescence, and as an unfortunate side effect of getting dragged to the House of Fëanor often as a child (in no small part due to Maedhros and Fingon’s friendship) has developed no love for the sons of Fëanor, as Caranthir was closest in age to him and had no desire to spend time with his half cousin, and certainly made that known.

Finarfin is born among the same time as Curufin, though they do not spend much time mingling through their childhood.

Turgon and Elenwë wed at a similar time as Finarfin and Eärwen, and to round out a very joyful time among the House of Finwë, Aredhel is born! Despite the increasing tensions among Fëanor and Fingolfin, and Turgon’s horror, she becomes fast friends with Celegorm and learns much of hunting from him during her childhood and adolescence.

There’s a notable gap between the time Aredhel, the current youngest, reached adulthood and the birth of Finrod, and later, Idril. Not soon after, Curufin is married, much to the delight of Fëanor and his brothers.

Orodreth is born just as the House of Fëanor takes a backseat in terms of childbearing, and there is another long pause before Angrod, Argon, and Aegnor are born within respectable times of each other, with Argon falling close in age to rod.

There is another long gap before Celebrimbor is born, and shortly after Galadriel. As she reaches her maturity Ambarussa are born, and thus ends the generations of Finwë in the blessed lands. Of special note, though I am still undecided in terms of parentage, the following birth order remains: Gil-Galad, Ëarendil, Elros, Elrond, Celebrían, Elladan, Elrohir, and Arwen.

If you didn’t want to read through my musings and explanations, here is a list from oldest to youngest of the House of Finwë:

Fëanor

Findis

Maedhros

Fingolfin

Lalwen

Fingon

Maglor

Celegorm

Caranthir

Turgon

Finarfin

Curufin

Aredhel

Finrod

Idril

Orodreth

Angrod

Argon

Aegnor

Celebrimbor

Galadriel