But davem, the Silmarillion says "but they took him at last alive, by the command of Morgoth."
The implication being, surely, that they would have just put him to death, like the others, but that Morgoth had particular plans for him.
I find it a problem in this discussion that there are various bits of the story in two different books, the Sil and UT. Does HoME have a complete narrative, can anyone tell me?
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