User blog comment:Gandalf1801/About the Silmarills and the Rings of power/@comment-24.118.112.185-20150417003745

No, actually not at all :).  The Silmarils were gems created by the son of an elf king.  His name was Feanor.  He crafted them in and in them captured the divine light of Valinor, essentially heaven.  There were three of these.  Later on, Celibrimbor an elf smith created all of the rings of power with the intstruction of Sauron.  However, tweaking the "recipe" so to speak, he created three fair rings for the elves, Narya, Nenya, and Vilya. These were unsullied by Sauron and kept pure.  The fate of the Silmarils and the rings of the elves were VERY different.  One Silmaril was carried by a hero known as Earendil into the heavens strapped to his brow.  One was thrown into a firey chasm in the earth, and one was thrown into the sea.  According to the prophecy of Mandos, the Silmarils will not be recovered unto the end of time.  Some have speculated that the Silmaril thrown into the firey chasm is actually the Arkenstone in The Hobbit (as both precious gems have tendencies to bring out greedy actions). I will leave that for you to decide, since no evidence suggests or disproves this theory (aside from the prophecy of course). Have a wonderful day, seel no anor bow en lin "May the sun shine on your road" (in Sindarin)!