Glancing at the Silmarillion fandom from afar: Detailed descriptions, intense character relations and details, sons of fëanor 89% of the material, Melkor might be sassy but sauron is VERY sassy, fingon and maedhros are dedicated husbands okay, FËANOR FËANOR FËANOR
Actually reading the Silmarillion: hundreds of years of events are covered in like two pages, um I think the sons of fëanor are doing something like over there and over here maybe, Morgoth is sending out orcs, sauron is being mauled by a talking dog– maedhros was held in captivity but you might have missed that if you weren’t paying close enough attention and fingon was there but literally it’s like a page moving on– elu thingol is actually the only one with development here to be honest I don’t know why he’s so ignored– also fëanor died like forever ago (men are kinda important to the story but elves