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...
So my sister and father are watching the Hobbit movies downstairs (I got kicked out for making too much commentary and "ruining the movie") and it suddenly occurred to me that this book actually still exists.
It's been a long summer.
Will I stay and update? Will I finally get on a schedule? Will I write four chapters back to back and then fall off the face of the earth again?
Who knows!
This chapter is dedicated to @Avourellion who pointed out that in one of the appendices, Russingon is somewhat cannon.
I like you.
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@daughter-of-feanor sums up this chapter perfectly.
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Sadly, I am like...contractually obligated to talk about the whole book so here we go.
Deep breath...how bad can it be?
"Now as has been told the power of Elwë and Melian increased in Middle-earth..."
*puking noise*
Thingol again. Disgusting.
I really can't express how little I actually want to talk about Thingol and Melian and Luthien right now. I honestly hate all of them.
Ugh.
The Sinda. They apparently were super fair and wise and all that good crap, more so than any other elves in Middle-Earth so...more favoritism I guess, great, what could go wrong.
Since Melian was a Maia, she was all-wise and beautiful and all that bullshit stuff, like...just imagine like the Middle-Earth version of Manwe or something and there you go, that's how great she's supposed to be. The only thing greater is...wait for it...HER CHILD, named Luthien, who's all beautiful and flowers came to greet her when she was born and she was wonderful and dances barefoot and yada yada yada...I want to get through this fast so we can get back to the Feanorians fucking shit up, ok?
During the time when Melkor was in captivity, Dwarves finally got to exist. I wasn't really expecting them to be in a chapter about the Sindar to be honest, I thought they'd probably have their own thing, but I guess they're not even important enough to get their own chapter which is valid because most of them suck.
They named themselves the Khazâd (like Khazâd-Dum, I guess) which I guess means "dwarves."
The Sindar, however, gave the dwarves the name "Naugrim" which means "the Stunted People" so that's a thing.
How kind?
They lived inside the mountains but at one point they just yote on out and were like "hey, sup!" to the Elves' surprise.
The Elves were unaware that there were other races of people in that area of the world, I suppose.
Tolkien proceeds to name drop like 500 dwarven cities but not give us much information on them. He just goes through a list. Cool.
Fourth wall break to add that I've legit been trying to finish this chapter for literally three weeks.
Kill me.
Fourth Wall Break #2: Month and a half :(
Ok so! Trying to be fast! Because Melian is so great and wonderful just like her great and wonderful child, she had some foresight that Melkor was probably going to Fuck Shit Up™ after a while and that the peace wouldn't last.
I would hesitate to call this "wonderous Maia foresight" since anyone with a tiny smidge of common sense really should've figured that out when he was released. But whatever.
Thingol was like "ah yeah makes sense" and hired the Dwarves to make some kind of stronghold/fortress/kingly dwelling or whatever you want to call his weird mountain house thing. They then continued to do a lot of random bullshit that's not really interesting.
At one point, it talks about how the Dwarves thought the Valar were slacking off and not getting rid of Melkor's weird beasts .
At one point, the Sindar think about how the Avari (Dark Elves) are savage and probably off doing barbaric stuff and not using their manners.
Then Thingol gets together a group of people and drives off some of Melkor's stuff and it's great, and then some long paragraphs about how the scenery is pretty.
Apparently, after all that stuff happened, some orcs drove Cirdan and all of his peeps to live next to the sea, but this is Cirdan the Shipwright so I'm kind of confused as to why he would live anywhere else in the first place.
