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Originally Posted by Aganzir
I remember those, but the wide speculation leads me to wonder if there are any further references in HoME. Alas, I don't have copies of the History of the Lord of the Rings.
Still, even if sexual assault was the case, it would be orcs, and thus evil lust again.
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According to Volume XII of
The History of Middle-earth, Tolkien had originally thought of killing Celebrķan. In an early outline of the Third Age is this entry: '
c. 2600 Celebrķan is slain by Orcs on the road over the Mountains to visit Galadriel'. (
The History of Middle-earth: XII. The Peoples of Middle-earth (London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997), p. 226)
In an early draft of 'The Tale of Years', it said that she was captured and rescued, but '
after fear and torment' was unwilling to stay in Middle-earth, and went into the West. (Ibid., pp. 235-6)
In an early draft of 'The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen', she was captured and '
tormented'. While she was rescued, '
and her hurts of body were healed, she lay under a great cloud of fear and she loved Middle-earth no longer'; so she went into the West. (Ibid., p. 264)
