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There was no Choice: that applied only to Earendil, Elwing and their descendants, not to all offspring of Elves and Men. Otherwise, a "one drop" rule applied.
While the text of the War of Wrath chapter dated only from 1937, and was itself just a revision of the end of QN, it is the case that Tolkien had it included in the LQII amanuensis typescript ca 1958, and, more significantly, emended it throughout to take name changes etc into account (e.g. Eonwe for Fionwe), so it appear that this text still had at least some validity after the Lord Of the Rings was published.
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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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