-they met when Feanor left the royal house at like 50 or so to go get apprenticed to Mahtan because he’d had it up to here with his father and stepmother and new baby Findis
-they met because on the way to Mahtan’s place Feanor saw someone lounging under a tree and and asked them directions, but the person ignored him, and Feanor got progressively more and more angry, all teen injured pride because he’s crown prince of the Noldor dammit, yelling at the person who just kept laying there
-and then Nerdanel walks up and is like, why are you yelling at my statue? And Feanor realizes that the person is indeed a statue, but between the shade of the tree and the skill of the sculpting it was impossible to tell
-Feanor, ever drawn to skilled crafters and being an impulsive teenager, basically proposes on the spot. Nerdanel is just like, sorry, I get that you’re crown prince of the Noldor, but I hear no nightingales and we’ve just met and you were yelling at one of my statues. By the way my father is that way.
-Feanor spends his apprenticeship learning smithcraft and jewelcraft, but also courting Nerdanel, who is charmed by this impulsive, creative dork who will happily get just as lost in his craft as her and her father
-when she reaches her own mastery and her sculptures cannot be distinguished from life even in full light of Laurelin, he proposes again. This time she accepts.
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