I know, it is a sad story, but it also gives a physical example of the importance placed on practicality by Tolkien. I don't think he was the type who really liked people running off on foolish dares. In the words of Mercedes Lackey, "Glorious Destinies only get you Glorious Funerals." Baldor may have tried to do something "glorious", and he didn't even get a funeral to top it all off!
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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