#sithisit

As with literally everyone that died in the First Age, the circumstances of Feanor’s death are hella dubious. 

“He ran off,” Maglor lies smoothly, “and then a balrog-”

“Twenty balrogs,” Curufin interjects. 

“Twenty balrogs came out of nowhere and now he’s dead.”

“I shall wish to see his grave,” says Fingolfin suspiciously. “To mourn him, you see.”

“Grave? Er. No, there’s no grave. He- he…spontaneously combusted. Only ashes left.“

“Who’s that raven-haired fellow over there?” asks Fingolfin suspiciously. “The one wearing two trench coats, sniggering. He looks an awful lot like-”

“Haha that’s my son,” says Curufin. “Hence why he looks just like me. And by extension my father. Yes. This is a plausible explanation for what you are witnessing.”

Fingolfin kinda doubts that if you have to say something is a plausible explanation for what you are witnessing that it really is, but his son just died and his other son ran off to face near certain death so he’s gonna let it slide for now. 

THEY PROBABLY DO. the whole thing with orcs and stuff, being tortured into losing your mind makes your descendants inhuman bloodthirsty proxy-traumatized slaves too……….or whatever. >_> There’s other stuff where I guess its hard to tell if the magic is more similar to Lamarck or more similar to like, genetic modification, eg the whole thing with the Numenoreans becoming long-lived and super tall within a generation or so.

Yeah, I can definitely see it going that way! He’s very isolated from people other than Annatar, he has strong motivation to come up with reasons why killing people is okay, some of Annatar’s reasoning has to start looking very appealing. He thinks of himself as a monster, and in a lot of ways it’s what he’s become, even though he still hasn’t stopped trying - I loved his friendship with Miriel as someone else trying to do the right thing in circumstances which limit their ability to do so, albeit obviously in very different ways and degrees.