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Originally Posted by Eorl of Rohan
I mean, brother marries sister in lots of cultures (especially in royal families, to keep the bloodline pure),
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Really? The only example I can think of where this has happened is ancient Egypt and I believe I've heard that even there, the extent to which this was a normal practice has been somewhat exaggerated. But of course there may well be other examples I'm not familiar with.
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Besides, isn't suicide/infanticide sinful as well?
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No one committed infanticide in the story.
As for suicide - personally, I've never understood why this is so widely considered sinful or immoral.
Tragic, certainly, but how is voluntarily ending one's own life
sinful? However, that's just my view; I expect Tolkien would have agreed that it was sinful. One does wonder what he thought the 'correct' response would have been on both Nienor's and Turin's parts.