Thats very interesting. I think youcould be right about Beleg almost being an early draft of Bombadil, so to speak, though obviously a totally different character from what we know.
Of course, such references could have been elven hyperbole or something. Calling him agless could refer to his valor in battle or something along those lines. Good topic!
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There long the golden leaves have grown, upon the branching years, while here beyond the sundering seas, now fall the Elven-tears...
but if of ships I now would sing, what ship would come to me, what ship would bear me ever back, across so wide a sea?
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