I quite agree, Lush - I'm sure Tolkien wouldn't outright speak of something that was certainly distasteful to him. It takes a bit of reading between the lines to deduce a rape, but it is IMO neither far-fetched nor inappropriate, biological considerations aside.
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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