Definitely.
I guess that makes part of the reason that Tolkien scrapped that project being that it was turning into a sort of re-make of LotR, with much of the same characters and themes. Tolkien probably wanted to write a more original story, but found that he just couldn't.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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