We have a winner!
Nuranar has the correct answer. I was looking for a little more detail, but this will do.
This was how the riddle pertained to Thingol:
The world is dark, no longer free,
(He had once lived in Valinor, and witnessed the light of the Trees; now they are dead, and Morgoth is on the prowl)
And I, amidst the evil, see
(Melian and her network of magic and spies; he is amidst the evil, but living in a realm protected my Melian)
Usurpers from a far-off land, (The Noldor....duh)
Who deem to fight along the strand...
(The kinslaying at Alqualonde...strand=shore)
These tidings, bourn upon the breeze
(again, referencing Melian)
Of others from across the seas...
(...)
Their sin has left me e'er aghast;
(the kinslaying...)
The feud will o'er eternity last.
(thingol always seems to have a bone to pick with the Noldor, and never trusts them)
So.....Nuranar has the thread.
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