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i dont know if this is going to help but im gonna try. this is fron the complete guide to middle earth by robert foster:
Silmarilli (Q.: 'brillance or jewels of silma,' sing, silmaril The three jewels shining with the light if the Two Trees, made by Feanor in the years following the unchannin gof Melkor. The Silmarilli were the greatest works of craft ever produced by the Children of Iluvatar, and, like the Two Trees, thier creation could not be duplicated. The shell of the jewels were composed of silma, but at thier heart was the ever radiant light of the Trees, and the Silmarilli shone by themselves. They were hallowed by the Varda so that any impure hand touching them would be burned and withered.
The inhabitants of Aman loved the jewels, but Feanor gave his heart to them and Melkor lusted sfter thier light. At first Feanor wore them at feastivals, but as the lies of Melkor influenced him, he began to keep them locked away, and his love fro them grew arrogant adn greedy. When Melkor and Ungoliant poisened the Trees, Feanor refused ti give up the Silmarillito restore the Trees, and at that moment they were stolen by Melkor from the Noldorin treasury at Formenos, even though his hands were burned and ceaselessly tormented him.
The lust of Melkor and the arrogance of Feanor (expressed by his Oath and the revolt of the Noldor) tainted the jewels, so that thereafter all desire fro them came to an evil end. Melkor and Ungoliant quarrled over them; after the Darl Lord overcame his former ally; he set the jewels in his Iron Crown. There they remained, luring the Noldorin Exiles to thier doom, until Beren, impelled by his love fro Luthien and the demad of Thingol, cut one out. This Silmaril was soon swallowed by Carcharoth, who bit off Beren's hand in the process, and was not recovered for some time, until Carcharoth was slain in the Hunting of the Wolf. The dying Beren gave the Silmaril to Thingol, thus fulfulling his quest.
At this point the Silmaril began to work the Doom of the Noldor. Thingol refused to give it to the sons of Feanor; soon after he hired Dwarves of Nogrod to set it into the Nauglamir, but he was killed by the Dwarves, who coveted the jewel. Although the Silmaril was recovered, Doriath was ruined, for after the death od her husband Melian left Doriath, the Girdle of Melian was broken, and Menegroth was sacked by a Dwarf army. The Nauglamir was recovered by Beren, and Luthien wore it in Tol Galen until her second death, becoming the fairest vision of beauty of all the Children of Iluvatar.
After that, the sons of Feanor, driven by thier Oath, pursued the Silmaril, sacking Menegroth and the Havens of Sirion and slaying Dior, Nimloth, and thier sons. At last Elwing, Dior's heriess, and Earendil sailed with the Nauglamir to Aman, for the light of the Silmaril enabled them to pass theough the Shadowy Seas and obtain the mercy of the valor. The Silmaril was removed from the Nauglamir and bound to Earendil's brow, and he was set in the sky as a star signaling hope to the Eldar and Edain in Middle-earth. From this light ultimately came that if the Phail og Galadriel.

its long, i know. but this was all i could find in the resorces i have at the moment.