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Both Gilraen and Feanor gave birth to one child only and both predicted their children were bound for greatness.
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Many mothers, Mithadan, and some fathers, predict their children are bound for greatness. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
I wouldn't really include Malbeth as a women in the Third Age--certainly not as a significant character, which is what Child is arguing here. The sole reference in LOTR (using the Index here) is to lines which Aragorn recites. The import is not about her as a character. Malbeth is not given any degree of characterization. Rather, the reference functions simply as a handy plot device to explain why Aragorn chooses the Paths of the Dead.
And this very handiness is what, I think, enbables The Downs to have its own Malbeth the Seer. Oh, Ridicule, there is thy sting.