Completed after nearly three years!
"The kingdom now
is mine alone. I will allow
no spilling of kindred blood by kin.
But bread nor rest shall find herein
these brothers who have set at naught
the house of Finrod."
Orodreth, now King of Nargothrond after the death of his brother Finrod, deciding what to do with Celegorm and Curufin. ('The Lay of Leithian', Canto X, lines 2896-2901, The History of Middle-earth: III. The Lays of Beleriand, p. 260.)
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