[Thinlómien]

I've never imagined Tom to have any relation with the woman who owned the brooch. When Tom takes the brooch and recalls then past, it has never occured that Tom would have had a close relationship with its bearer. Maybe he was just speculating in the manner of "she who once bore this must have been beautiful" and the sadness comes from the passing away of the dúnedain, not of a single woman. Or maybe Tom knew who the woman was, but didn't know her personally (eg. had seen her somewhere) or then he, holding the brooch, got a "vision" of its bearer (thus, again, the sadness is for the people, not for one person). My picture of the events has always been a mixture of the first and the third options.

Now I honeslty don't know do I think that way anymore, because the way it's presented, why indeed Tom could have not known the woman? Well, anyway, I thought I'd bring this out. But in any case I hope arcticstorm's theory was not seriously made...