if we want to make a reconstruction of his History (and of Celeborn) coherent with the whole legendarium
Why?
Anyway, be a "ghost" sentence, Tolkien did not repare in it in the revision of TLOTR
Tolkien while brilliant was not infallible; the LR is littered with uncorrected lines he overlooked during revision- that's what a 'ghost' is, as in the 'ghost' of an earlier draft. Just for two examples, Aragorn's "sleep without fear" statement in Caras Galadon, and Pippin seeing the moon rising rather than setting on the night of the war-beacons.
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The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.
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