Anonymous asked: “hi! i am rereading the silmarillion after many years and i’m having some trouble with the noldorin royal family’s relationships. do you know a chart that shows who was on especially good terms with who and who disliked who? or if it interests you can you talk a bit about it? i love your blog!”

Oh boy, Anon, you said the magic words: Noldor and chart. So have four! First a family tree to help keep the relations straight. Then a chart showing members of the family described by Tolkien as being on especially friendly or unfriendly terms. Then a chart showing everyone’s reaction to the Oath of Feanor, and finally one showing the lineup for the departure of the Noldor from Valinor.

If you’d like to read more about the Noldorin royal family and their complicated relationships, I’ve got plenty more posts for you:

• Finwean Infographic
  
• Elvish Cross-Cultural Relations: The Noldor
• Feanor’s Lisp
• Using “Finwe” as a Prefix
• On Feanor’s Abandonment of Fingolfin
• Maedhros and Fingon’s Gift Exchange
• Galadriel’s Hair
• Aredhel: White Lady of the Noldor
• Earwen and Anaire
• Galadriel’s Part in the Exile of the Noldor

Multicultural Elvish Marriages

An interesting question! Difficult to answer, because our examples are few and often affected by strange circumstances. Below is a chart of cross-cultural marriages among the elves (let me know if I forgot one) (They’re color-coded by culture: red=Noldor, purple=Vanyar, blue=Teleri/Sindar, grey=Avari, green=multicultural) As you can see, in most of these relationships the wife goes…