War of Wrath II the timelining

[bunn]

I have just realised (I think I knew this, but had forgotten) that at the end of the Silmarillion's War of Wrath, poor Elros and Elrond, who were abducted away from both their parents when they were aged seven, get to see their father again... looking up at him from below, up at him in his flying ship high above the ground.   He is forbidden to land, despite having just basically won the war that the Valar had been fighting for 43 years for them.   Because, apparently, Rules Are Rules.

I wondered if going through all the Feanorian Silmarillion details would make me feel less generally Feanorian in my sentiments.  I mean, they are mass murderers who make terrible decisions. But in fact, exactly the opposite has occurred.

DAMN YOU VALAR.  YOU UTTER, UTTER BASTARDS.

Also, it is really hard to come up with 43 years worth of details for a war that is described in canon as basically 'And then the Valar stomped everyone and it  all fell in the sea.'    I'm trying to make up a possible timeline.  Any warlike suggestions happily accepted.

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[bunn.livejournal.com]

Ooh, no, I haven't! Thanks. I think I gave up on buying & reading HoME at #4 and only later picked up 10 & 12.

Tempted!... but perhaps I will wimp out and try to make do with the Wikipedia entry, which I now note has some stuff from that book - since I want to concentrate on the East anyway, and after all it's all quite absurdly uncanonical in a way, being from the point of view of Dead Feanor. And yet, can't resist the temptation to keep trying to poke extra bits of sort-of-canon in there, like a bird trying to dress an unprepossessing nest with stolen brightly coloured bits!

Hey ho.

I do like the idea that Morgoth gets more and more snarled in Beleriand until he's in a giant knot like a really bad kitten, but I'm pretty sure that no argument is quite going to get me entirely onside with the Valar. :-D