Opinions: Fëanor, ritcheous or over-proud?

[Attalus]

Originally posted by Maedhros
This is just sad beyond words. You know, when I read the LOTR and The Hobbit, I got a different vision. Both Bilbo and Frodo could have killed Gollum. In fact, Bilbo almost did it, but there was something inside him that changed his mind. It's a thing called pity. It was because of that that the quest could be achieved. Evil deserves hate? Not in the world of JRRT. That is what makes it fascinating to me, the idea of redemption.
Manwë is indeed wiser, because he can see more clearly the mind of Ilúvatar.
So hate is not evil. Such evil deserves hate. That is what Fëanor did, he met the evil of Morgoth with hate. It seems that you have more in common with the person that you hate than I would ever have.
Isn't that ironic and sad.

Actually, Hate is not a sin or evil in and of itself. God is said to hate the sin and love the sinner. So, Hate is indeed the appropriate response to Evil. Feanor, however much you like him, was marred by the Evil within him, able to murder his kinsmen and disrupt the lives of countless more, all because of material goods, admittedly very beautiful stones, which seemed to have the virtue of letting Earendil get to Aman. This is classed as Worshipping False Gods, and puts him forever beyond the pale in my sight. If he had ever repented, I might feel differently, but, he did not.