The cursed descendants and followers of F�anor,the eldest son of Finw�, and his spouse Nerdanel.F�anor was one of the greatest and certainly the most skilled,of the Noldor but his burning anger at the loss of his Silmarils led him to commit acts that would greatly diminish the influence of his house among his people.As the heir of Finw�,F�anor and his descendants should have inherited the High Kingship of the Noldor but because of F�anor's rash acts,the lordship of the Noldor passed to his brothers:Finarfin in Aman and Fingolfin in Middle-earth.For this reason,the members of the House of F�anor are referred to as the Dispossessed.The history of the House was a woeful one and most of its members met an early end.F�anor and six of his seven sons perished before the end of the First Age.His second son Maglor survived beyond the War of Wrath,wandering the shores of Middle-earth but his fate is unknown.The last of the House was F�anor's grandson Celebrimbor,the son of Curufin,who had a great part in the making of the Rings of Power and was tortured to death by Sauron during the Second Age.
House of Finarfin :
The descendants and followers of Finarfin,third son of Finw�.Finarfin himself remained in the West when the Noldor returned to Middle-earth but his five children came to Beleriand.Both Finrod Felagund and Galadriel belonged to this house.
House of Fingolfin :
The House of the descendants and followers of Fingolfin,second son of Finw�,who was accounted High King of the Noldor after the death of his elder brother F�anor in the first year of the First Age.During the early years of the First Age,the House of Fingolfin held the lands to the northwest of Beleriand; Hithlum,Nevrast and Gondolin.Of these,the city of Gondolin held until I 510,but Hithlum was overrun by Morgoth in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad,where Fingon was slain (Fingolfin had already met his end in the Dagor Bragollach).The remnant of the House, including Fingon's son Ereinion Gil-galad,were succoured by C�rdan the Shipwright in the Havens.After the Nirnaeth,Tuor son of Huor was sent as a messenger to Turgon in Gondolin and there wedded Turgon's daughter Idril.Thus was the blood of Men introduced into the House and the descendants of their line were named half-elven,given the choice of whether they were to considered Men or Elves.All these descendants chose to be considered among the Firstborn,except Elrond's brother Elros(who became the first King of N�menor and was a direct ancestor of Aragorn Elessar) and Elrond's daughter Arwen (Queen to Aragorn at the end of the Third Age).After the Fall of Gondolin,the survivors of the House lived as exiles at the Mouths of Sirion or in the Falas,until E�rendil the Mariner,descendant of Fingolfin's second son Turgon,sailed into the West to seek the aid of the Valar,who overthrew Morgoth in the War of Wrath in c. I 583.The last High King of the Noldor,Ereinion Gil-galad,remained in Middle-earth.He dwelt in Lindon with his great-nephew Elrond and C�rdan the Shipwright and marched with the Last Alliance to Mordor at the end of the Second Age.There he fell in the Siege of Barad-d�r and the royal line of the House of Fingolfin came to an end in Middle-earth.
House of the Golden Flower :
A noble house of Gondolin;Glorfindel was its head.
