You are certainly correct obloquy, that there is a possibility of 7, but if there were only 3 then none would have been killed in the War of Wrath. I think that this is just one of those topics which is unclear and you have to decide for yourself, 50 just seems right to me.
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Yet the lies that Melkor, the mighty and accursed, Morgoth Bauglir, the Power of Terror and of Hate, sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days.
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