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3. NERDANEL While still in early youth Feanor 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 hills; and thus she and Feanor 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 Aule. Of Mahtan
Nerdanel learned much of 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.