Fingolfin: The Elf Who Wounded Morgoth Seven Times | Silmarillion Explained

Fingolfin, second son of Finwë and half-brother to Fëanor, embodied steadfast duty in an age of passion and betrayal. After Fëanor burned the ships and stranded him, Fingolfin led his people across the Helcaraxë - twenty-seven years of frozen hell that forged them into the hardiest of the Noldor. He accepted the High Kingship from Maedhros and ruled through reconciliation and unity, maintaining the Siege of Angband for four hundred years. When the Dagor Bragollach shattered everything he built, despair transformed into ultimate defiance. Fingolfin rode alone to Angband's gates and challenged Morgoth to single combat. Though vastly outmatched, he wounded the Dark Lord seven times before falling, and with his last breath drove his sword through Morgoth's foot. Thorondor bore his body to a mountaintop cairn that no orc would approach. His legacy proves that heroism transcends victory - mortality can wound immortality, and absolute defiance carries eternal weight.