Also known as: Nerdanel The Wise
Nerdanel was the wife of Feanor and the mother of his seven sons. Daughter of Mahtan, a great smith of the Noldor, she learned much of the working of metal and stone, and was herself a sculptor of rare skill, shaping figures so lifelike that they seemed almost to live. Wise and strong of will, she was for a long while the one person who could temper Feanor's fierce moods and turn him from rashness. But as Melkor's poison worked in him and his pride grew beyond restraint, they became estranged, and when he led the Noldor into exile she would not go with him. Of their sons she foretold in her grief that not all would follow him to the end -- a foreseeing that the Oath and the Wars of the Jewels would fulfill in blood.