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Originally Posted by Mithalwen
Oh Morwen is a pill...ugh
I know Tolkien idolised his own mother but there are so many mothers who fail their children albeit often inadvertantly by dying that I can't help wondering if there was some latent resentment. Mind you for a good catholuc there is quite a bitvof wife abandonment too.
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Perhaps still a part of his being a good Catholic - not ignoring sin and showing the devastating consequences of it?
Then there is Miriel, who (in a sense) abandons both husband and child - perhaps with the worst consequences of all the deeds of someone not actually evil.
Look forward, Galadriel. 
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Last edited by Pervinca Took; 07-04-2013 at 12:36 AM.
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