Finarfin

Finarfin was a Ñoldorin Elf of Valinor.

Finarfin was said to be the fairest and wisest of Finwë's sons. Like all of Finwë's sons, Finarfin founded his own house. Uniquely among the Ñoldor, he and his descendants all had golden hair inherited from his mother, thus his house was sometimes called "The Golden House of Finarfin".

Biography
Finarfin was the youngest child of Finwë with his second wife, Indis, and the younger brother of Fingolfin. In YT 1280, Finarfin married Eärwen, a princess of the Teleri and an act that related him to the kin of Thingol, King of Doriath. Together, they had four children: Finrod Felagund, Angrod, Aegnor and Galadriel. Through Galadriel, he is the grandfather of Lady Celebrian of Rivendell (wife of Elrond), and consequently, the great-grandfather of her three children Elladan and Elrohir and the famous Arwen Undómiel, future Queen of Gondor.

After the death of Finwë, when Fëanor gave his wrathful speech before the Ñoldor of Tirion, Finarfin was there and listening to the hasty words he tried in vain to persuade the Ñoldor to pause and not to be rash. Nevertheless he departed with his brothers Fëanor and Fingolfin for Middle-earth, but turned back when Mandos pronounced the Doom of the Ñoldor. Finarfin then became King of the residual Ñoldor in Aman and presumably still rules from Tirion on Túna.

Etymology
His fathername is Arafinwë, the "Noble-Finwë", from the Quenya ara ("noble, high, royal"). His mother name is Ingalaurë, which gives homage to the golden hair he inherited from his Vanyarin mother. It comprises of the word ingoldo (people of Inglor) and laurë (gold).

Earlier versions of the legendarium
Finarfin was called Finrod in earlier versions of the Middle-earth mythology, and his son Finrod Felagund Inglor Felagund. As such he appears in the 1st edition of The Lord of the Rings as Finrod. This was changed in later editions, but not all references to Inglor were removed: see Gildor Inglorion.

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