[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

Thanks for asking us, lindil. It's a difficult question for me to answer, though, as it sets my love of whole and flowing narrative against my love of detail. How frustrating that Tolkien is not here to marry the two as he so excelled in doing.

I would have to go for B, as we already have the Histories of Middle Earth to provide a scholarly approach to this issue. I think that we can trust the Revised Silmarillion writers to use their poetic licence responsibly.