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Amrod

the young twin; the one burned at Losgar (per the final text)

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Name and Nature

Amrod — “the young twin” — with his brother Amras the twins, the youngest sons of Fëanor and Nerdanel. Their mother-names were Pityafinwë (Amrod) and Telufinwë (Amras): “the little Finwës”. Red of hair (from Nerdanel’s kin), fierce and loyal, they are the least individual of the seven — two fires of the House of Fëanor, nearly interchangeable in the histories.

The Two Traditions of his Fate

The twins are the one pointtiated vigour" of the Fëanorians’ youth and the mythography’s own uncertainty: Tolkien revised the twins’ fate more than once, and the cruel burning at Losgar — where Fëanor’s own deed consumed the younger of his sons — is the emblem of the house consuming itself from the first step of its rebellion.ck on the Havens of Sirion at the end of the age (the last of the brothers — and Amrod lost thereby — both slain after the taking of the ships).

  • The revised (and, for the published text, the fuller) account as Christopher Tolkien printed it: Amrod — himself one of the dissenters against Fëanor’s burning of the Teleri ships — was left behind the host at Losgar, and was consumed in the burning of the swan-ships (the fire meant to punish; the amending text holds that while the brothers’ ships were burned at Losgar, Amrod, who had slept aboard one, “was burned”; the horror of the king that — Fëanor’s grief at the fires). The published Silmarillion prints the burning (Amrod at Losgar) rather than the twins’ common death, and Christopher Tolkien’s commentary in The Peoples of Middle-earth (HoME 12) details how the later text replaced the older, and how the loss of Amrod became the last sorrow of Fëanor himself.

Significance

Amrod (with Amras) illustrates both the “undifferentiated vigour” of the Fëanorians’ youth and the mythography’s own uncertainty: Tolkien revised the twins’ fate more than once, and the cruel burning at Losgar — where Fëanor’s own deed consumed the younger of his sons — is the emblem of the house consuming itself from the first step of its rebellion.

Verknüpfte Seiten

AmrasFëanorNerdanelHouse of FëanorLosgarThe Oath of FëanorConcordance — A to Z
Werke: die Quellen sind seitenübergreifend die Bücher von J.R.R. und Christopher Tolkien (Silmarillion, Hobbit, Herr der Ringe, Unfinished Tales, History of Middle-earth, Nature of Middle-earth u. a.) — eigene Zusammenfassung. Siehe die Concordance und den README der Quelle für die Einzelbelege.
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