Fingolfin

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{{noldor infobox
| image=[[Image:Jenny Dolfen - The Coming of Fingolfin.jpg|300px]]
| name=Fingolfin
| quenya=''Ñoldofinwë''
| titles=[[High King of the Noldor]]
| birth=[[YOTT]] c. 1190, [[Tirion]]
| realm=[[Hithlum]], [[Beleriand]]
| death=[[First Age 456]], [[Dagor Bragollach]]
| age=800
| parentage=[[Finwë]] [[Indis]]
| spouse=[[Anairë]]
| children=[[Fingon]], [[Turgon the Wise|Turgon]], [[Aredhel]], [[Argon]]
| gender=Male
| hair=Dark
| marks=
|}}
[[Image:Fingolfin Heraldic Device.jpg|left|100px]]
'''Fingolfin''' ([[Years of the Trees]] 1190 – [[First Age]] 456) was a [[High King of the Noldor]] in [[Beleriand]], eldest son of [[Finwë]] and [[Indis]], younger brother of [[Findis]], older brother of [[Irimë]] and [[Finarfin]], and the younger half-brother of [[Fëanor]]. His wife was [[Anairë]] and his children were [[Fingon]], [[Turgon of Gondolin|Turgon]], [[Aredhel]], and [[Argon]]1.

== History ==
Fingolfin led the largest host of the Ñoldor when they fled [[Aman]] for [[Middle-earth]], even though he thought this unwise; he did not want to abandon his people to Fëanor. He was the one who took them across the ice of the [[Helcaraxë]], and soon after, at the rising of the Sun, he came to the [[Gates of Angband]] and smote upon them, but [[Morgoth]] stayed hidden inside. Fingolfin and the Noldor then came to the northern shores of [[Lake Mithrim]], from which the Fëanorian part of the host had withdrawn.

His son [[Fingon]] rescued [[Maedhros]], son of [[Fëanor]], who consequently waived his claim to kingship. Thus Fingolfin became High-King of the [[Noldor]]. He ruled from [[Hithlum]], by the northern shores of [[Lake Mithrim]].

After defeating the [[Orcs]] in the [[Dagor Aglareb]] ("Glorious Battle"), Fingolfin maintained the [[Siege of Angband]] for nearly four hundred years. But the Siege was ended by the sudden assaults of Morgoth in the [[Dagor Bragollach]] ("Battle of Sudden Flame"), and many peoples of Beleriand fled. In the end Fingolfin rode to Angband alone to challenge Morgoth to single combat, and there died after a mighty duel, wounding Morgoth seven times with his sword [[Ringil]]. [[Thorondor]] the King of Eagles then brought Fingolfin's body to a mountaintop overlooking [[Gondolin]], and [[Turgon of Gondolin|Turgon]] built a cairn over the remains of his father.
{{quote|In that vast shadow once of yore Fingolfin stood: his shield he bore with field of heaven’s blue and star of crystal shining pale afar. In overmastering wrath and hate desperate he smote upon that gate, the [[Gnomes|Gnomish]] king, there standing lone, while endless fortresses of stone engulfed the thin clear ringing keen of silver horn and baldric green.|''[[Lay of Leithian]]'', [[Lay of Leithian Canto XII|Canto XII]], lines 3538-3547}}

[[Fingon]] then became High King of the [[Noldor]].

== Etymology ==
Fingolfin's [[father-name]] was '''Ñoldofinwë''' ("Wise Finwë"). His [[mother-name]] was '''Aracáno''' ("High Chieftain"). Fingolfin is the [[Sindarin]] version of his mother-name.{{Pronounce|Fingolfin.mp3|Ardamir}}

== Genealogy ==
<code>
(1) [[Míriel]] = [[Finwë]] = (2) [[Indis]]
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[[Fëanor]] [[Findis]] '''FINGOLFIN''' = [[Anairë]] [[Irimë]] [[Finarfin]]
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[[Sons of Fëanor|seven sons]] | | | |
[[Sons of Fëanor|of Fëanor]] [[Fingon]] [[Turgon of Gondolin|Turgon]] [[Aredhel]] [[Argon]]1
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{{sequence
|prev=[[Fëanor]]
|next=[[Fingon]]
|list=3rd [[High King of the Noldor]] <code>I</code> 1 – 456
}}

== See Also ==
* [[:Category:Images of Fingolfin|Images of Fingolfin]]

== Notes ==
# [[Argon]] only appears in very late writings by [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] as shown in ''[[The History of Middle-earth]]'' and therefore was not mentioned in the published ''[[Silmarillion]]''.

[[Category:Noldor]]
[[Category:House of Finwë]]

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