I wouldn't recommend reading The Silmarillion or Unfinished Tales unless you're fully prepared to take lots of notes. I had to make a family tree for all the characters to remember who they were and who they were related to. I wouldn't have been able to remember all of them any other way.
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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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