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their son became the calssic product of a messed up marriage
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I don't think they were meant to show the horrors of divorce. It was supposed to be the effect of the doom of Mandos on the Noldor that made Maeglin love Idril, and so indirectly Morgoth's fault. Someone mentioned the fact that Tolkien was Catholic, I think that therefore failed marriages were seen as the result of evil. For example Finduilas (of Dol Amroth) died due to the effect of living near Mordor, and the curse on Hurin's children made Turin and Nienor marry.
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