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Originally Posted by Pitchwife
Much to my own surprise, I feel moved to defend Urwen on the question of Lalaithberry's transformation. Back in BoLT, Turin and Nienor(i) were said to have been purified in Fôs 'Almir, the Bath of the Flame, after their death and counted among the Valar afterwards. Most likely this early conception was long abandoned by the time Tolkien wrote the Narn, but it shows that the idea of a similar posthumous fate for their sister is not as utterly un-Tolkienian as it seems at first sight.
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Yes, but that's Book of Lost Tales– very different conception of– well, everything, really. Was Lalaith even in that?
Besides, how could Lalaithberry kill Glaurung, etc. anyway?
Or has she just abandoned all her previous goals,
Urwen? Come on, you can't give up now!