If they had been alive, wouldn't there have been signs of a struggle? I'm sure that Baldor's first instinct would have been to fight back, and maybe, just maybe, he could have killed one. After all, we know that he did have his sword with him. If his enemies had been alive, then at least another skeleton would have been found with him, that of the enemy (or two) that he managed to kill.
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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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