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Originally Posted by Kuruharan
What might Celeborn have said about this?
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I knew I should have listened to mother when she warned me about those Noldor women.
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Oh great. First she's running around accepting strange jewelry from other men, and now she's proposing to the Dark Lord.
On a more serious note. The reason we don't hear about assassinations by the good guys (Fingolfin doesn't count anyways because he challanged Morgoth to a duel, not snuck into his house and stabbed him in the chest) might be that it doesn't fit the heroic ideal that Tolkien held his elves to.
You could argue that when Feanor threatened Fingolfin with a sword that he was threating assassination, which would fit with the popular view of assassinations as being politically motivated. That might just apply in the U.S. though, where we speak of the assassinations of J.F.K, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. but the murder of Versace and so on.