"Only a God can kill another God." or, headcanons and opinions on Fëanor and godkilling

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It’s well known that Fëanor’s ambition was to defeat Morgoth, get revenge for the death of his father, and retrieve the Silmarils. It’s also well known that Fëanor made the Silmarils, that he made them out of the Light of the Trees. A light that was divine. He took that light and made it alive.

 

“Yet as they were indeed living things they rejoiced in light and received it and gave it back in hues more marvelous than before.” That’s a quote from the Silmarillion regarding the Silmarils. So the Silmarils were indeed alive, Fëanor took something divine and brought it to life.

 

And that’s amazing. Normal men, normal elves, could not hope to achieve such work as that. Only those god-touched or born with divinity in their blood can do so. Only they can take something divine and improve upon it and make it something else.
 

 

Which Fëanor did.

Do I really have to tell you where I’m going with this? Those with divinity in them can bring things to life in worlds and works such as Tolkien’s. As such, is it such a great stretch to imagine that Fëanor was god-touched? That he could have killed Morgoth had he gotten the chance? That he burned with such a light and passion that in the final act, in delivering the blow that would destroy Morgoth he would have burned himself up. He would have become something else. Something no longer mortal.

Would he still have been the son of Finwë were such an even to take place? Or would he have forgotten his mortal roots? In a way, I think it was a mercy almost, that he died before facing Morgoth. That he burned while surrounded by those who reminded him of who and what he was.

Only those with divinity in them can kill another god, only those with divinity in them can create life.

Fëanor created life, and who’s to say he couldn’t have killed a god either?