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Fingon became High King when Fingolfin died fighting [[Morgoth]] after the [[Dagor Bragollach]] ("Battle of Sudden Flame"). Seven years later, Morgoth's forces invaded Hithlum, and Fingon was hard-pressed and outnumbered, but rescued by [[Círdan]] and his people of the [[Falas]], who came up the [[Firth of Drengist]] in their ships. | Fingon became High King when Fingolfin died fighting [[Morgoth]] after the [[Dagor Bragollach]] ("Battle of Sudden Flame"). Seven years later, Morgoth's forces invaded Hithlum, and Fingon was hard-pressed and outnumbered, but rescued by [[Círdan]] and his people of the [[Falas]], who came up the [[Firth of Drengist]] in their ships. | ||
[[Image:Ted Nasmith - Fingon and Gothmog.jpg|thumb|left|"Fingon and Gothmog" by [[Ted Nasmith]]]] | [[Image:Ted Nasmith - Fingon and Gothmog.jpg|thumb|left|"Fingon and Gothmog" by [[Ted Nasmith]]]] | ||
In the complex [[Nirnaeth Arnoediad]] ("Battle of Unnumbered Tears"), Fingon was nearly victorious; but in the end he was finally defeated, and then killed by [[Gothmog (balrog)|Gothmog]], lord of [[Balrogs]]. | In the complex [[Nirnaeth Arnoediad]] ("Battle of Unnumbered Tears"), Fingon was nearly victorious; but in the end he was finally defeated, and then killed by [[Gothmog (balrog)|Gothmog]], lord of [[Balrogs]] with an axe after another Balrog bound him with its whip. | ||
Turgon became by right the High King of the Noldor, although after the battle he returned to the secrecy of [[Gondolin]]. | Turgon became by right the High King of the Noldor, although after the battle he returned to the secrecy of [[Gondolin]]. |
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Biographical Information | |
Other names | Findekáno (Q, fn) |
Titles | High King of the Noldor |
Location | Tirion; Dor-lómin |
Language | Quenya and Sindarin |
Birth | between Y.T. 1190 and 1300 Tirion |
Rule | F.A. 456 - 472 |
Death | F.A. 472 Anfauglith in Nirnaeth Arnoediad |
Family | |
House | House of Fingolfin |
Parentage | Fingolfin & Anairë |
Siblings | Turgon, Aredhel and Argon |
Physical Description | |
Gender | Male |
Hair color | Dark |
Weaponry | Bow |
Gallery | Images of Fingon |
- " Of all the children of Finwe he is justly most renowned: for his valour was as a fire and yet as steadfast as the hills of stone; wise he was and skilled in voice and hand; troth and justice he loved and bore good will to all, both Elves and Men, hating Morgoth only; he sought not his own, neither power nor glory, and death was his reward."
- ― The Lost Road and Other Writings, "Quenta Silmarillion"
Fingon (S, pron. [ˈfiŋɡon]; Years of the Trees – First Age 472), called 'the Valiant' by Maedhros, was a High King of the Noldor in Beleriand during the First Age. He was the eldest son of Fingolfin, older brother of Turgon, Aredhel, and Argon.[note 1]
History
Fingon went with his father and people from Aman to Middle-earth at the beginning of the First Age. He achieved renown soon after for his daring rescue of Maedhros from Thangorodrim. Fingolfin gave Fingon a domain in Dor-lómin, in the west of Hithlum, where he did good service during the Siege of Angband; defeating Orcs that attempted to go around to the north and attack Hithlum from the west, and then later the first to fight against the Dragon Glaurung when he first came forth from Angband.
Fingon became High King when Fingolfin died fighting Morgoth after the Dagor Bragollach ("Battle of Sudden Flame"). Seven years later, Morgoth's forces invaded Hithlum, and Fingon was hard-pressed and outnumbered, but rescued by Círdan and his people of the Falas, who came up the Firth of Drengist in their ships.
In the complex Nirnaeth Arnoediad ("Battle of Unnumbered Tears"), Fingon was nearly victorious; but in the end he was finally defeated, and then killed by Gothmog, lord of Balrogs with an axe after another Balrog bound him with its whip.
Turgon became by right the High King of the Noldor, although after the battle he returned to the secrecy of Gondolin.
Etymology
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Fingon is the Sindarized version of his Quenya father-name, Findekáno. The latter consists of findë ("hair") + káno ("commander").[1][2]
Other Versions of the Legendarium
In the published The Silmarillion Fingon was the father of Gil-galad, but this was an editorial mistake by Christopher Tolkien, and is said "to have no wife or children". Argon does not appear in the published Silmarillion at all.
Genealogy
Fingon House of Fingolfin Born: during the Years of the Trees Died: F.A. 472 | ||
Preceded by: Fingolfin | High King of the Noldor F.A. 456 – 472 | Followed by: Turgon |
Notes
- ↑ Argon only appears in very late writings by Tolkien as published in The History of Middle-earth, and is left out of the published The Silmarillion.
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "XI. The Shibboleth of Fëanor", "The names of Finwë's descendants", p. 345
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 113