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Old 10-21-2010, 09:22 PM   #12
Galin
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Hmm, two quotes missing from this thread!

'... and because the people of Finarfin had had no part in the kinslaying of Alqualonde;' Concerning Galadriel and Celeborn, Unfinished Tales

But this was not new, and arose not (<- somewhat poetic phrasing alert) because the fair Galadriel had entered the tales, for the Quenta Silmarillion of the 1930s noted...

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'The hosts of Fingolfin followed less eagerly, and at the rear came sorrowing Finrod and Inglor and many of the noblest and fairest of the Noldor; and they looked often backward, until the lamp of Ingwe was lost in the gathering tide of gloom; and more than others they carried thence memories of the glory of their ancient home, and some even of the fair things there made with hands they took with them. Thus the folk of Finrod had no part in the dreadful deed that then was done; yet all the Gnomes that departed from Valinor came under the shadow of the curse that followed it. For it came soon into the heart of Feanor that they should persuade the Teleri,...'
Obviously fix any Finrods and Inglors with Finarfins and Finrods however, as this came well before the revision of names.
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