Well, I'm sure that Maeglin had his heroic moments (I'm not defending the screwed-up git, I'm just playing Devil's Advocate!). He refused to remain in Gondolin as regent when Turgon went to the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. If he was the kind of guy that we all think he was, he would have stayed and tried to mess around with Idril and the rest of the city for a bit. But no, he wanted to fight, too. I'm not saying that his intentions were noble. They probably weren't. But every villain has some redeeming qualities, and Maeglin had some.
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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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