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Isn't that too harsh, to erase all of it.
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I think it's quite inconsistent with the later version. Maeglin is never again described as "swart" and all rumours of "Orc-blood" are lost (I don't see how those rumours could exist anyway, since it is known that his parents were Aredhel and Eol). To me, at any rate, these seem to be features of the primitive account that were done away with in the more consistent, subtle, and sophisticated later versions.