I'm very sorry if I missed anyone saying this but... has anyone mentioned Galadriel?
Exile is tragic too, and few experience such exile as Galadriel.
(Although it is clear that on some level she doesn't really want to go back to Valinor, at least at first, it is also clear that part of this desire stems directly from anger AT being exiled - making it even more tragic.)
I also felt personally sorry for Celebrimbor, although I don't think tragic is quite the word. He was misled into creating the most beautiful works of his life, and before he was cruelly killed he had the majority of them usurped from him, saw his favourite of them taken forever into hiding, and witnessed the ultimate destruction of his people.
Pretty harsh.
-Craig
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