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Old 04-30-2019, 05:16 PM   #2506
Urwen
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Nope. You're on the right track, though. One of the lines has a literal meaning, as well as metaphorical one.

You're correct, the first two stanzas are about Feanor and Fingolfin, but the third one - which contains the speaker - is not.
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