Oath of Feanor

The Oath of Feanor is when the Silmarils get stolen, Feanor swears that he will get them back. He leads his people through a lot of dangers, including an icy pass. A lot if his people die. He ends fighting a battle, and gets mortally wounded. He then passes the oath onto his sons' heads. They spend the rest of the book in a long war, recover the Silmarils, and then the Silmarils drive them mad. Maedhros kills himself and his brother throws one in the sea.

The Sons of Feanor

The sons of Feanor are as follows:
Maedhros
Maglor
Celegorm
Caranthir
Curufin
Amrod
Amras

These are the elves this entire book is about. The Silmarillion covers more stories, but it is really about the Oath of Feanor, which was an oath saying he would recover the Silmarils.

Middle Earth Names

Just a couple of interesting names and pronunciations.
Maedhros = M-i-thros
Eomer = A-omer
Eowyn = A-o-win
I just wrote this to show how different Tolkien names are pronounced.

Maedhras vs Beren

One major similarity between Maedhros (Feanor's son) and Beren. Maedhros is ignorant and goes out on a parlay, which is actually and ambush. Morgoth captures him, attaches a chain to his wrist, and leaves him hanging over a cliff. A friend hears him singing, and risks his life to rescue him. He can only free him by cutting off his hand. Beren is on a quest to steal a Silmaril from Morgoth. He gets in and takes one, but he meets the largest wolf (who killed Huan). He shows the wolf the Silmaril out of pride, as if saying, "I won, you failed." The wolf bites off Beren's hand, swallowing the Silmaril. Even though their tales are quite different, they both end up with one hand.

Stuff

The sons of Feanor from the Silmarillion, are the ones who are after Melchor (aka. Morgoth) because he stole the Silmarils, the brightest jewels in Middle Earth, they were made by Feanor, and his sons want them back, so they can hold the worlds light, and so it will get back in the right hands. Beren, a man, steals one, and it ends up with a king, the other drives Maedhros to his death, and the death of the Silmaril, and the other, his brother throws another in the ocean, and so in time they all get lost, and their legend lived on, but never are the Silmarils found, or even seen by another man or elf or dwarf again.