Everyone in the Silmarillion dies, except for Galadriel, and Sauron (sort of), and maybe Maglor, but nobody knows.
Here I present to you my guide to the characters, storylines, and other tidbits you probably forgot about because the Silm is so packe...
I should really get on a regular update schedule one of these days.
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Last chapter, Feanor fucking diED so that was GREAT.
Honestly, this one's not gonna be much better.
So.
The Noldor are now in a place called Mithrim, which I have never heard of before in my fucking LIFE and Tolkien does not elaborate.
Thanks Tolkien.
We're told that the Grey Elves live there. Tolkien, kindly, does not elaborate on who the fuck those people are either.
Luckily, the LotR Wiki is a thing.
We're just giving the Sinda new names, it seems.
Cool.
(Not really. IDGAF)
Then there's a paragraph that uses 800 other terms I don't recognize off the top of my head, but it seems to boil down to, "Thingol's people were apparently filled with wonder when seeing the Noldor and briefly thought that the Valar had stopped fucking hiding behind their goddamn fucking mountains and sent help, but then they were like 'oh it's just the Noldor, cool I guess."'
Thingol: Heyyyy did the Valar send y'all? Thank GOD I thought that they'd abandoned us over here.
Maedhros: Heh heh, so about that...
When I was looking for my notes for this chapter I searched "Thingol" in the search bar because there aren't a ton of chapters with him in it so I figured it'd narrow it down and I came upon a super super ancient note on my computer from like, mid-2014 when I read the Silm for the first time and it's titled "People I Hate in the Silmarillion" and then my top 10 are literally ranked.
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(In case you thought I was kidding)
If you don't know who some of those people are, don't worry about it.
We'll get there.
You'll understand.
Eventually.
Anyway.
"But even in the hour of the death of Fëanor an embassy came to his sons from Morgoth, acknowledging defeat, and offering terms, even to the surrender of a Silmaril."
So Morgoth is like "yo nvm guys you can have a Silmaril if you just go away lol" and the Sons of Feanor, reasonably, realize he's trying to trick them.
Wait.
Lmao.
No they don't. They fall for it 100%. Even though my fucking dog, who has a single brain cell that pings around in her thick skull like an old Windows 7 screensaver, could figure out that Morgoth is OBVIOUSLY not gonna do that...Maedhros and co. do not.
