Iarwain,
That sounds about as right as I can think it to be, but would Tolkien really have wanted to flex his foreshadowing muscles so much in a children's tale? I suppose he could've been doing so just because he could.
I always took it to just go along with the theme of nothing ever being able to harm the good. In the same context as "I am the keeper of the Flame of Anor...etc." type passages. Hmmm.
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Those who the Gods would destroy, They first make mad.
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