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RD-SL-03: About the death of Mīm: you are right the scene with the arrow in his throat is in origin the death the traitor Ban from the Lay. We used that for Mīm because the same picture is called for in one version of the curse of Androg. Thus Tolkien seemed to had that kind of death in mind for the trator of Tśrins band from a very early time he work on that story (the Lay) to the last (CoH).
RD-SL-05: I myself proposed the same use for the quarrels on the road. But Aiwendil pointe rightly out that this would be a kind of '(miss-) use the words of Tolkien to tell a different story'. We have done such things, but only when forced to by some observed need. In this case we would just add a detail that was in no version that Tolkien created.
Respectfully
Findegil
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