Ah, but Finrod had full knowledge that he probably would not survive this mission. Earlier in the Silmarillion, he told Galadriel, when the latter asked him why he had not married, that he had foreseen that nothing of his realm would endure that his son would inherit. In other words, both he and his realm would be rather short-lived. Finrod had full knowledge that he was going to his doom, yet he kept on going, because he was in Barahir's debt. Makes you really appreciate the House of Finwë. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
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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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