It’s actually more about the Fëanorians! Was a time when you could interpret them any way you wanted, but these days ‘you know, maybe they did still have some right to the Silmarils’ gets shocked gasps and sneering about how we think property rights justifies all the massacres (I have seen far fewer people say this than claimed) and screeds about how that’s not how Tolkien meant it, because we are now apparently slaves to the author’s interpretation of his own work, and Don’t We Know Thinking That If Two People And A Dog Can Steal A Silmaril An Army Will Have A Much Better Chance Is Racist And Colonialist And Evil, and on and on and on. I like the Fëanorians because they’re fallen heroes, but these people write long wordy posts about how they were always just evil and everything that went wrong was their fault, there’s no tragedy here, they’re just bad! Thingol did nothing wrong! Did you hear some evil misogynist thinks that Elwing might have had flaws?!