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 hate myself for deciding that taking classes was the way to spend my summer.
@InkAndAsh gets another dedication because once again, this thing only exists because I was trying to explain the Silm to her and she was amused by what I said, so she suggested I write it down. We've cowritten a few little projects together and now that she has some of her own writing up, I'd really appreciate it if y'all would take a look. She's a great friend and I'd love for others to enjoy her writing as much as I have!
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The chapter starts by restating everything that happened in the last one, basically. The Valar were like "yo come with us to Valinor" and some of the elves were like "k rad" and some were like "uh no thanks".
The Teleri stayed behind first to see if they could find Thingol but eventually they were like "meh" and went to Valinor and left him.
Thingol, meanwhile, was in a forest making creepy eye contact with some magic chick named Melian for a really long time. Then they decided that they had found true love and apparently that was romantic, so they got married and lived in a cave.
As one does.
While that was going on, the elves in Valinor were, uh...busy.
Very busy, in fact. They got down to...procreating...pretty fast apparently, and then proceeded to...um...breed...like a bunch of wild rabbits.
Tolkien then goes on to list every single one of them and their 800 descendants.
Lemme draw some family trees.
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Hopefully, you can actually read that.
I wasn't kidding when I said they bred like bunnies.
