Comment on Feanor with silmaril by steamey
Sorry, Féanor had a troubled childhood but that doesn't excuse his arrogance. His father did a very poor job in allowing so much rivalry to grow between the half-brothers. This image depicts Féanor's character very well, I think. Please give us a convincing portrait of Fingolfin, too, who had a heart as big as a whale. And what about Féanor's mother Miriel, who got re-embodied as soon as her husband was slain so that they didn't have to meet in Mandos' 'Halls of Awaiting.' She got a nice job in weaving tapestries depicting the whole tragedy her son was leading his people into. And I'd like to know what Finwë told his beloved son when he showed up in the abovementioned halls. I hope he's still slapping him around. Keep going, please!
Tough and straightforward. To some extent you are right... It's hard to judge these things.
In fact it was Finwe himself who offered Valar to trade his resurrection for hers, for she didn't have rights to be resurrected (her spirit had left her body of her own free will). He met Miriel, offered to stay in Mandos with Feanor, and she accepted but she never really got back to life, stayed near them with special permission from Valar.