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Her decision was selfish and moronic...
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Selfish and moronic? Or merely "human"? History and the daily news are full of examples of people making decisions that may have seemed disasterous, considering the circumstances. "Now why did those people travel to (pick a country), when they knew there was a good chance they could get killed?" I suppose they had their reasons.
Now maybe Aredhel was constantly reminded that it was way too dangerous to leave Gondolin, what with Morgoth being out there and all. But there were plenty of other people, both Men and Elves, living their lives outside the safe, prison walls of Turgon's dream. To cut yourself off from all of your kin, and civilzation itself, for the sake of safety in secrecy...well, that's just letting Morgoth win, if you ask me. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]
And Aredhel never broke her promise to keep the secret of Gondolin safe. Until she returned with her husband and son, she told no one where the city was. If she had chosen to never return to Gondolin, I have no doubt she would have taken the secret to her grave.
As you can probably tell by now, Squatter, I have little sympathy with Turgon and his "safe" city. You can hide under a rock all your life, and it would probably be nice and safe. But it wouldn't be much of a life.
[ August 21, 2002: Message edited by: Birdland ]