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Originally Posted by Gorthaur the Cruel
I don't have the passages but if I remember correctly, she was taken away into a den & tormented, suffered a poisoned wound...
But I've stumbled on a passage in the Unfinished Tales regarding Amroth & Nimrodel & the quote goes like this:
"If she came through the settled lands of Gondor," they said, "she would not be molested, and might receive help; for the Men of Gondor are good, and they are ruled by the descendants of Elf-friends of old who can still speak our tongue, after a fashion; but in the mountains are many unfriendly Men & evil things." - Unfinished Tales (amroth & Nimrodel pg. 253)
So molestation was possible for Celebrian then, if it is possible for Nimrodel, although the quote seems to be reffering to evil men who could do such things, but were not the orcs thrice evil or more?
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"Molestation" in its original sense was a generic term for being brought to harm or even annoyed by someone. For example, if a celebrity is mobbed by fans on the street, one could say that he/she is being "molested" by them. The term did not have an implicitly sexual connotation until recently.