This prompted me to finally make this thread. Maybe it isn't important enough to talk about, but what the heck.So Feanor is dead and gone from the world, but he still is alive and well in one place - between Galadriel's ears.
She's a crafter, prominent among a family of crafters. So, what do we know of what she has crafted? Not minor stuff like rope or bread or cloth, but real Noldo-craft?
Mirror - a poor-man's palantir, and Phial - a poor-man's silmaril. Both are great, but both are also kind of sad pale imitations of Feanor-craft.
Millennia later, she's just copying Feanor. Or, now that I think of it, anywhere she's not copying Feanor, she's copying Melian.
Just who is Galadriel anyway, nameless and alone?
What crafts, arts, and hobbies did the princes and princesses of the Noldor (and their Noldorin spouses) practice? Tolkien identified only a few (italic). This may not matter, but it could become the inspiration for little touches in scenery, script, and/or costuming sometimes.
Not including singing, which probably all Elves do. Assuming fletching as a side-craft for those who hunt.
Dead people, and people left behind in Valinor, crossed out.
Fingolfin: ???
Maedhros: hunting, ???; crafts might not matter, he probably had to give up on whatever it was after he lost his hand
Maglor: hunting, playing musical instruments, composing, poetry; probably also makes instruments
Celegorm: hunting, ???; maybe woodworking
Curufin: hunting, linguistics; is "the chief inheritor of his father's skills" so I'd expect armor, weapons, jewelry, stonework, etc.
Caranthir: ???
Amros: ??? hunting?
Fingon: ???; plays the harp, hunting/falconry
Turgon: metalwork, the gold and silver images of the Two Trees in Gondolin; Glamdring?
Aredhel: hunting, ???; maybe weapon-smithing
Eöl: metalwork, weapons, armor, creepy prison-maze enchantments
Finrod: hunting, "light" stone-carving and stone detail work, carves the pillars of Nargothrond; plays the harp; painting landscapes? maybe portraits?
Angrod: ??? has very strong hands
Eldalótë: ???
Aegnor: ???
Galadriel: weaving, lembas, landscaping/gardening, the Mirror, the Phial
Celebrimbor: jewelsmithing, Rings of Power; probably linguistics, metalwork, stonework, woodwork, the bridge of Nargothrond; (one story attributes the Elessar to him though I think that highly unlikely)
Idril: healing? dancing? playing music?
Maeglin: mining, metalwork; stonework?
Orodreth: ???
Finduilas: ???
Gil-galad: ???
Celebrían: ??? presumably lembas
Earendil: shipbuilding, all things mariner, healing (but also a warrior)
Elrond: healing, playing music
Elros: ???; healing? (like Elrond, and because the Dunedain have a tradition that the King is a healer even if he's also a warrior)
Elladan: ???
Elrohir: ???
Arwen: weaving, embroidery; presumably lembas
There are a lot of these people! Most total blanks in the hobby department. Not all of them focused on crafts, of course, but I feel like all of them must have been good at/fond of doing something by the time they were hundreds or thousands of years old. The sons of Feanor (except Celegorm) often visited Aule's house and probably all were skilled craftsmen.
So, suggestions? Didn't somebody already come up with something for Irime?
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