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Originally Posted by Galadriel55
I hear what you are saying, and I like the comparison with Beregond. However, Beregond didn't renounce Denethor completely, no matter how much he disagreed with him.
Moreover, if you swear a fealty to someone, you can't just say oh no I don't like serving you any more. Isn't part of fealty that only your master can free you from it, like in Pippin's oath to Denethor?
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Was Huan a "sworn" vassal of Celegorm, or a willing servant?
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....Oromë had given [Huan] to Celegorm long ago in Valinor, and there he had followed the horn of his master, before evil came. Huan followed Celegorm into exile, and was faithful; and thus he too came under the doom of woe set upon the Noldor....
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Of Beren and Lúthien
That suggests that Huan had made there a choice, whether to follow Celegorm to Middle-earth and come under the Ban, or to renounce service and friendship and stay in Valinor.
Since Huan was
punished for his loyalty to Celegorm there by being put under the Doom of the Noldor, it would seem he was indeed at liberty to choose where his loyalties lay. I see the situation with Beren and Lúthien as being similar.
Though Huan felt love and loyalty toward Celegorm, and followed him as long as he was able, he apparently knew when enough was enough, and recognised the time when blind loyalty to a master with an evil purpose was not the way for him.