on celegorm and his brothers

A little bit about Tyelko and his siblings, his relationships with them in an overview, and ( slightly more deeply ) his relationship with Curufin.


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on celegorm and lúthien (their love or "love", politics)

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on names

Turcafinwë Tyelkormo Fëanárion, his full name in Quenya, his mother-tongue.

Turcafinwë is his father-name, given by Fëanáro. Turca/turka meaning “strong/powerful in body”, and -finwë ( his grandfather's name ) is the same element as in his brothers’s names. He is Turcafinwë and Turco to himself and others when he is young, but it falls out of use in his adolescence, save by his father.

Tyelkormo is his mother-name, given by Nerdanel, and his preferred name in time. Tyelka/tyelca for “hasty/swift”, from the primitive elvish kyeleka ( the root kyelek ) and ormo, “riser” or “to rise”, means his temper, its volatility. He prefers Tyelkormo for himself and of others when he is older, thus for most of his life.

Celegorm is the Sindarin form of Tyelkormo, thus, celeg from the same primitive elvish root kyelek, it’s used in Beleriand in the lands of Thingol’s ban. He doesn’t use it for himself, he accepts it in Nargothrond—partly out of need. However, it becomes the name by which he is remembered.

Tyelko and Turko are nicknames, short for Tyelkormo and Turcafinwë, respectively. His brothers may use them freely, as maybe his cousins ( at least, Írissë... ).

The Fair, an epessë... fashioned quite after his own mind, if one were to ask. Regrettably, he shares it with Dior.

Fëanárion means Fëanor’s son — Fëanár(o) + the patronymic suffix -ion (“son”), and it’s truest by the oath he has sworn.

Friend and follower of Oromë he was known almost as well as by any other name, still in Valinor.

Lord of Himlad he ( and his brother Curufin ) is in Beleriand, where Himlad is between the Rivers Aros and Celon, and the land south of the Pass of Aglon, that he holds until the Dagor Bragollach.

Prince of the Noldor are Celegorm and all his brothers.

on huan; and oromë, and the breaking with the valar

Huan and Celegorm were not long both with Oromë before he gave the hound to his friend; he was grown and had all the skills the Vala taught his beasts. Celegorm’s gift of speech reached far even before he was taught that of birds and other animals thoroughly, and so they understood each other soon before that.

Soon they were not seen apart except in few places, and even there, Huan waited ever for his master.
Celegorm commanded him seldom in Valinor, or he did at times that they were oft already of the same mind. So it came too that they went together when Fëanor was banished to Formenos, while then they still ventured onto Oromë’s grounds.
And Huan was silent when Celegorm swore the oath but he still went with him though he also understood the doom.

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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.

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on deciding maedhros' doom

It was Celegorm and Maglor who chiefly spoke against their brother going to meet Morgoth, and yet also those who chiefly saw his reason to go; they all knew it was a ruse. When Maedhros did not return also these two eldest after him went again from their withdrawing camp looking for him. They were affirmed in their misgivings when they but found Maedhros’ host slain and their brother untraceable.

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on skills in health and healing

*obvs. this post is (besides the parts referencing animals) obviously going to lean more heavily on Tolkien’s Elves than the race of Men. This is by the nature of Celegorm’s place in the story, and the structure of Valinor/the First Age and overwhelming Elf-presence there.

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