Well, what if Merry didn't get married at all? What if he and Estella eloped? I don't know what the Hobbit equivalent is to elopement, but that is always a possibility. For the sake of future generations, Frodo (who wrote the account at the end) could have said that they were married.
*runs off to avoid large, sharp objects thrown at her*
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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