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Curufin is a character in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy universe of Middle-earth.
Curufin was a prince of the Ñoldor of the race of Elves, the fifth of the seven sons of Fëanor and Nerdanel. Curufin is the father of Celebrimbor, master jewel-smith of Eregion who forged the three Elvish Rings of Power.
His father name — the traditional name given by an Elvish father to his offspring — was Curufinwë, which was also Fëanor's original name. This was because Curufin was most like his father both in appearance, temperament and skill. He was also Fëanor's favorite. ("Finwë" was a common family name among his House, it being the name of his grandfather Finwë, patriarch of the House and the High King of the Ñoldor.) Nerdanel gave him the mother name of Atarinkë, which means "Little Father" in Quenya, because of Curufin's physical resemblance to Fëanor.
As with the other Sons of Fëanor, Curufin was bound by an oath to recover his father's Silmarils, which had been stolen by the Dark Lord Morgoth. His oath took him and his brothers to Middle-earth during the First Age where they established realms in exile, waged war against the armies of Morgoth, fought their own Elvish kind, and eventually brought ruin upon themselves.
Curufin fell in the Second Kinslaying, when the Sons of Fëanor attacked Doriath to seize a Silmaril in the possession of the Elvish King Dior the Beautiful. His brother Celegorm died with him during the assault.
The House of Fëanor
Finwë = Míriel Mahtan
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Fëanor = Nerdanel
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Maedhros Maglor Celegorm Caranthir Curufin Amrod Amras
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Celebrimbor
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