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 rejoined Ulmo and Nienna's Forever Alone Club which is great. I also got COVID-19 which was definitely an experience. And I had to do homework so I could graduate high school, methinks that's important I guess. I started a podcast! That's cool right? Not really because I have like one subscriber and it's my mom. Oh well #Itried
You would think that during a quarantine I'd have time to write this disaster of a...I don't even know what the hell this thing is...but apparently you would be wrong because I've been so busy doing nothing of any actual importance that I couldn't find the time in my busy busy...blank...schedule.
this one's for you!
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So a little bird told Manwë that Melkor was causing problems and, to our lil Golden Boy, "it seemed plain to him that he [Melkor] purposed to escape to his old strongholds in the north of Middle-earth."
I added the "Melkor" part but that's a book quote.
And mark down the occasion guys because Manwë is, for once in this entire saga, actually wrong!!!!
That's right everyone, the Golden Child has fucked up.
So while Manwë is preoccupied with being wrong, Melkor goes to a place called Avanthar (which Tolkien unhelpfully tells us is near some place called the Bay of Eldamar) but I'm not really sure if that's at all important...I feel like if it was an important location I'd probably remember it. So we're not gonna look it up on a map, we'll just hope for the best.
If it sounds like I'm being lazy, that's because I am!
But what's in Avanthar?
A big-ass spider named Ungoliant. If you recall Shelob from LotR, you know, the huge spider that Sam and Frodo had to fight off...this is her mom.
No I'm not kidding. And yes Ungoliant is like twice that size.
Apparently, nobody actually knows how Ungoliant exists. None of the Valar or Eru created her, not even Melkor created her. She just...materialized. Tolkien theorizes that maybe she spawned from a shadow or something.
She lives in a ravine and sucks up light to make a creepy web.
A badass icon if you ask me.
Unfortunately, Ungloliant has sucked up all the light that's around and she's hangry AF.
Melkor goes to find her and puts on his Scary Dark Lord costume (ok so it's not called that but I'm paraphrasing) and they plot some revenge together. Ungoliant is a little hesitant at first because she doesn't really want to leave her hidey-hole (honestly mood) but Melkor is like, "if you help me do this then I'll give you a ton of good crap when we're done" and Ungoliant is like "ok fine."
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Then Melkor legit rides off to Valinor on an enormous spider cloaked in some invisible invisibleness. He and Ungoliant literally...yes, literally...parkour their way up to the mountain where Manwë's house is and then they basically stand in his backyard and laugh evilly.
I'm here trying to make things funny and whatever but there are times when Tolkien just does my job for me.
So in Valinor, it's party time!
Wooooooo!
Then Tolkien spends like three paragraphs describing that it's a super lit party, great, yada yada. Food, dancing...Yavanna doing weird flower stuff...you name it. Manwë made Feanor come for some reason but Finwë doesn't because...it doesn't say why, it just says he doesn't.
But while they're partying...Manwë looks out and far in the distance our favorite "hero" sees...some darkness! Oh no!
