JRRT never ceases to amaze and lead us gently and often unoticably into something of our own Journey.
I think you are right thorondil in that the many stages and facets of Tuors journey are for him more than just accomplishing Ulmo's will and a more than a wonderous journey.
They are a birth into the reflection of the light of valinor [Gondolin].
This was the closest that any man had yet come [ excepting perhaps Beren perceiving the light of the trees in the face of Melian] to beholding the bliss of Valinor. And a maturing of mankind in a way. A setting of the stage for Earendil and thus Numenor.
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The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.
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