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Old 03-05-2025, 09:06 AM   #11
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My best guess was also Ents, which was shot down.
Ents remains the best guess. And there is a very strong Ent connection with couplet 3.

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To me this strongly evokes the meeting of Beren and Luthien. Am I completely on the wrong track, or is there something to it?
That is 100% correct. "Held" is pretty literal, though specific to one version of the tale (the original BoLT "Tale of Tinuviel", I've just checked).

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