I don't think that Old Man Willow was Goldberry's dad, but I agree that they personify different aspects of a forest. Goldberry is the personification of all that is light and happy, like clearings, glades, and grottoes. Old Man Willow is the more sinister personification of the shadowed trees shutting out all sunlight, treacherous roots, and hidden hollows.
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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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