Woah! I think it was sorta like a goodbye. It sure sounds like it. And I don't think the fact that he died soon after was a coincidence. My bet is that he could feel death approaching, and wrote a final poetic gesture to the world. Just my opinion...
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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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