Notorious people are remembered a lot more often than their strait-laced counterparts. For example, just about every schoolchild remembers King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, but when you ask them what King Louis XIII did, they look at you blankly.
In the same way, Fëanor and Maeglin, the geniuses, immensely talented craftsmen, and the black sheep of the House of Finwë, are remembered a lot more than, say, Finarfin or Mahtan. Why, do you ask? They simply did a lot more, and were "bad boys." No one really remembers Finarfin and Mahtan, except for their association with Fëanor, THE bad boy. That was why Maeglin was so famous, or rather, infamous.
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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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