Feanor Self-Important?

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

that Olwe attempted to compare his ships with the Silmarils was a bit ridiculous

Not really, at least, not in the way I'm thinking. You see it as the jaw-dropping-changed-the-future type of creation. That the ships don't even compare because the Silmarils were simply much more important, but that wasn't really how I was thinking of it. Yes, the Sils were more important, but if you look at it, not what they did but what they were, you can see that Olwe was correct in comparing them. Both the Sils and the ships were the prizes of their people, the best thing that they could possibly make, and the likes of which could never be made again. If they were lost, any of them, it's not like they could be replaced, so Olwe was correct in seeing that the prize of his people should not be handed over lightly, especially against the wishes of their protectors.

Fea