That might be it. Of course, we could all be over-analyzing this thing to death, which is leading us in circles. I don't think many of the discrepancies were meant to be over-analyzed!
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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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