[Anguirel]

I replied about the Silmaril but the computer ate my response...

I agree with Formendacil, but think Tuor might be thinking of the demise of poor Maedhros. In that case I think it was fairly clear that the gem was not destroyed, "finding its long home", and that sort of thing, unlike its luckless, noble bearer, who would have been burnt to ashes like his father, but more poignantly due to red hair effect, and gone straight to Mandos...