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he is credited with other works: the reworking of the Tengwar, the alphabet of the Eldar;
fashioning the Palantiri, the stones of far-seeing; and the invention of silima, a substance which
cast its own light; and other things.



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But F├лanor became ensnared in the deceits of Melkor, and he came to think that Fingolfin sought
to replace him in their father's affections. F├лanor drew his sword upon him in their father's tower
before many witnesses. Then the Valar sent F├лanor into exile in a northern region of Valinor, and
Finw├л went with his son, and many other Noldor as well. They built the city of Formenos, but
when F├лanor returned to Valimar to be reconciled with his brother at the command of the Valar,
Finw├л refused to go with him.

So Finw├л was caught by Melkor, who slew the Two Trees while the Valar were distracted by the
matter which lay between F├лanor, and Melkor slew Finw├л and took the Silmarils, and the
Noldorin guards could not withstand him, so that others died in Formenos that day as well.

When he learned what had befallen in his absence F├лanor defied the ban of the Valar against his
return to Tirion, and he gathered there his people. Then he persuaded most of the Noldor to
follow him into exile, though the Noldor were not wholly behind him in this matter, and many
wished to have Fingolfin for their king instead of F├лanor.

The Valar at first refused to interfere in the Noldor's decision since they did not wish to force the
wills of others to their own ways. But F├лanor they cast out of Aman because of the oath he and
his sons had sworn to avenge Finw├л's death and recover the Silmarils. Then F├лanor exerted his
will over his people and he led them north to Alqualond├л, where he hoped to persuade the
Falmari (the Teleri of Aman) to join in his rebellion.

But Olw├л refused to leave Aman, for his people were content under the protection and tutelage
of the Valar, and they had not been ensnared in the deceits of Melkor. So F├лanor tried to steal the
swan-ships of the Falmari, and he fought with them in their haven. And when Fingon came upon
the battle he thought the Falmari had attacked the Noldor, so he led a great part of the Noldor
into battle on F├лanor's behalf, and in Alqualond├л the Noldor committed the first Kinslaying.

For the sake of the Kinslaying the Valar pronounced a curse upon the Noldor and a doom upon
F├лanor and his House. They would fail in their war, and the House of F├лanor would lose their
heritage, becoming known as The Dispossessed. When he heard this pronouncement, Arafinw├л
(known also as Finarfin) returned to Aman and earned the pardon of the Valar. There they made
him King of the Noldor who had not gone into Exile.

Their stolen ships proved to be of little use to the Noldor, for many were destroyed in a great
storm which arose when Uinen, Lady of the Sea, grieved for the slain Falmari. But F├лanor led a
small part of his people across Belegaer to Beleriand, and he burned the ships in his madness.
Fingolfin led the remaining Noldor north until they came to Helcarax├л, the Grinding Ice, and
they crossed that terrible bridge, though many perished, to come at last to Middle-earth.