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the oath and celegorm's ambition
First, Celegorm, like all his brothers, took the Oath out of loyalty to their father, and whole-heartedly he took it. Everyone was filled with anger for Melkor’s lies, and they grieved Finwë also, and while Celegorm had not so soon forsaken the Valar — for his friendships with Oromë — he did upon the Oath and the Doom of Mandos, moved by Fëanor’s claim, that Morgoth, even if he was restrained again by the Valar, they would again not punish him as needed. And, further, having been among the last few allowed to still look upon the Silmarils ( “[and] grudged the sight of them to all save to [Fëanor’s] father and [Fëanor’s] seven sons;” ), he also had, from the desire that they claimed of one, the wish to recover them.
Then coming upon Beleriand, seeing a vast and ever so largely unclaimed land, he also found within himself a want for conquest. At first it was one that was alike Celegorm’s passion to learn and see all of the woods of Oromë ( and knowing that the Huntsman was there much as well before the Eldar came ) — for he still thought they might wrest the Silmarils from Morgoth as it were — but with Fëanor’s death after the Dagor-nuin-Giliath, it became one desire of need, as they might not fight in Angband and take back the gems.
Celegorm was disagreeable and resentful of Maedhros giving away the kingship and with their move out of Hithlum, but as he and Curufin set up in Himlad and held it for a long while he was still driven, but not as terribly. Only when they lost the Pass of Aglon and the surrounding land in the Dagor Bragollach was he dispossessed and coveted foreign land again. Thus, his and Curufin’s schemes to win Nargothrond for themselves and the Sons of Fëanor.
When this failed, and they were cast out — and coming upon Lúthien and Beren, and their quest for the Silmaril meanwhile — the promises of the Oath flared up again.
Now Celegorm’s want for geographical conquest waned... he was gripped by the words he had sworn, and he was desperate by now to fulfil them, to recover the Silmarils and return; in part Beleriand had not given him what he had thought it promised, and what he had left behind.
He roused his brother’s to assault Doriath out of a hasty need that fit his name; out of an ever more desperate want to go back, that still knew the constraints of their Oath and Mandos’ doom.
Then coming upon Beleriand, seeing a vast and ever so largely unclaimed land, he also found within himself a want for conquest. At first it was one that was alike Celegorm’s passion to learn and see all of the woods of Oromë ( and knowing that the Huntsman was there much as well before the Eldar came ) — for he still thought they might wrest the Silmarils from Morgoth as it were — but with Fëanor’s death after the Dagor-nuin-Giliath, it became one desire of need, as they might not fight in Angband and take back the gems.
Celegorm was disagreeable and resentful of Maedhros giving away the kingship and with their move out of Hithlum, but as he and Curufin set up in Himlad and held it for a long while he was still driven, but not as terribly. Only when they lost the Pass of Aglon and the surrounding land in the Dagor Bragollach was he dispossessed and coveted foreign land again. Thus, his and Curufin’s schemes to win Nargothrond for themselves and the Sons of Fëanor.
When this failed, and they were cast out — and coming upon Lúthien and Beren, and their quest for the Silmaril meanwhile — the promises of the Oath flared up again.
Now Celegorm’s want for geographical conquest waned... he was gripped by the words he had sworn, and he was desperate by now to fulfil them, to recover the Silmarils and return; in part Beleriand had not given him what he had thought it promised, and what he had left behind.
He roused his brother’s to assault Doriath out of a hasty need that fit his name; out of an ever more desperate want to go back, that still knew the constraints of their Oath and Mandos’ doom.