Well, Eomer, a story of sorrow does tend to be rather better. (True at least in the British psyci; I can't speak for those of us of the more American persuasion of course [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img].)
There is this, and the fact -- as I put forward in my post -- that Turin's story, as a compulsory and interwoven part of the Silmarillion, fits in with much more and enhances the sorrowful theme of the Sil itself. Ultimately, there is but one joyful theme in this miserable story; and that is the thread, that we find running through it, of the tale of Bright Earendil. And Tuor's story is a component of this.
That's what it's there for -- as part of the little vein of hope, the Hope of Elves and Men, that lies at the heart of the otherwise total darkness of the Silmarillion. Tuor's tale can reall be accounted as the same entity as the tale of Earendil.
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