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Originally Posted by Aiwendil
. In GA (and earlier), it certainly does make perfect sense to suppose that Turin would have wedded Finduilas if he had saved her.
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I think so too. Much depends on the definition of "love".
Túrin certainly is very fond of Finduilas, I think he does love her, but daren't desire her - he is too much in awe of her; ("He had no love of the kind she wished")
Finduilas says in the fragment in the U.T.Narn:
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....but still pity can ever pierce his heart, and he will never deny it. But he does not pity me. He holds me in awe, as were I both his mother and a queen.
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Now if, after the sack of Nargothrond, Turin had managed to rescue Finduilas from the orcs, couldn't that have changed things between them, and his feelings for her?
Gwindor's flash of "foresight" in his dying hour had probably not been explicit. But it is rather noble of him to give this warning and commit Finduilas to his rival.
However, all this is speculation, and I agree with Son of Numenor's conclusion:
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Originally posted by Son of Numenor
"I think that the Finduilas strand is a 'What if...?' which Tolkien left vague intentionally - another layer of the misty veil surrounding the predestined fall of his tragic hero."
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