[Evisse the Blue]

Think how many troubles and woes could have been averted if Thingol would just unclench from time to time. Like for instance, if he would've allowed Aredhel to pass through his realm. This is one time when he could've made an exception from the law he himself set and allowed her to pass, escorted. I don't suppose he feared her as such, did he? And she *was Fingon's sister. The character of Thingol does bug me, on the whole. I know he's supposed to be a good guy but there's just so much of him that I dislike.

Well, I guess he had it coming in the end, though. As Gildor says to Frodo some ages later: 'The wide world is all about you. You can fence yourself in but you cannot forever fence it out.'

I have a mind to say more on this matter but I'd stray from the topic of discussing this chapter. Maybe I'll make a thread of this, after I put my thoughts more or less in order.