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While still in early youth Fëanor wedded Nerdanel, a maiden of the Noldor; at which many wondered, for she was not among the fairest of her people. But she was strong, and free of mind, and filled with the desire of knowledge. In her youth she loved to wander far from the dwellings of the Noldor, either beside the long shores of the Sea or in the halls; and thus she and Fëanor had met and were companions in many journeys. Her father, Mahtan, was a great smith, and among those of the Noldor most dear to the heart of Aulë. Of Mahtan Nerdanel learned much of the crafts that women of the Noldor seldom used: the making of things of metal and stone. She made images, some of the Valar in their forms visible, and many others of men and women of the Eldar, and these were so like that their friends, if they knew not her art, would speak to them; but many things she wrought also of her own thought in shapes strong and strange but beautiful.

She also was firm of will, but was slower and more patient than Fëanor, desiring to understand minds rather than to master them. When in company with others she would often sit still listening to their words, and watching their gestures and the movements of their faces. Her mood she bequeathed in part to some of her sons, but not to all. Seven sons she bore to Fëanor, and it is not recorded in the histories of old than any of the Eldar had so many children. With her wisdom at first she restrained Fëanor when the fire of his heart burned too hot; but his later deeds grieved her and they became estranged.


Nerdanel is a tall Elven woman with ruddy skin, grey eyes and auburn red hair. She is sturdy, but feminine, in body, her hands rough from her work as a craftsman. She comes from very late in her canon -- near the end of the First Song of the Ainur. Nerdanel is divorced from her husband, as was her right when he entered the Halls of Waiting with a Doom upon him, and only her twins have been returned to her from Mandos at the point she is taken from.

Nerdanel is from The Silmarillion, and is the property of Tolkien estate. She appears here solely for the purpose of role-playing, from which no profit whatsoever is being made.