I have to agree with Din here. Feanor was indeed slain by Gothmog in the
Second Battle. If memory serves, it was "The Battle under the Stars" or
something similar. It was Feanor's 1/2 brother, Fingolfin, who challenged
Morgoth to single combat and was slain by him.
Tim
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:34:04 +1000 (EST)
From: Din <din_ohtar@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: Re: Riddle Encounter
> >
> > This was discussed earlier. One view was that it
was
> > the person who killed (or cut) feanor (which I
think
> > we said was gothmog), but we didn't think so.
>
> I like Gothmog.
>
RD: It certainly wasn't Gothmog. It was Melkor who
slew Feanor.
Oh no it wasn't.
Feanor landed in middle earth, melkor launched the
second battle (forget what is was called - maybe
'glorious victory'). While the orcs were smashed,
feanor went forward with a small bodyguard to get to
melkor.
The balrogs then counterattacked, killed the
bodyguard, inflicted mortal wounds on feanor, and only
his sons coming up allowed him to die amongst friends
(and not get turned into paste like other elves who
got killed by the balrogs).
Melkor didn't like coming out to fight (I think he
only did it once).
thanks
din
p.s when I was roleplaying m/e, the GM had Feanor go
battle crazy when the elven attack stopped, he
attacked his sons for being cowards, they defended
themselves, and feanor thus got killed by his sons
(and not the balrogs). When we uncovered this, we
decided to stick with the original story in order to
keep feanor's reputation alive. That's why I remember
how feanor died in the books
