What is it about Finrod and Turgon that they were the ones Ulmo chose? That’s my biggest question for this chapter. The only explanation I can come up with is that they didn’t originally desire to go back to Middle Earth (unlike Galadriel, for example). Maybe that meant they would they would give up more readily their new homes when the time came. ( Read more... )

I don’t know where this image of Turgon and Finrod building a sandcastle in Alqualondë came from, but I couldn’t get it out of my head.


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