There is of course also this reference in one of the original drafts:
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"Don't be absurd" said the wizard. "That is a job quite beyond the powers of all the dwarves, if they could be all gathered together again from the four corners of the world. And anyway his castle stands no more and he is flown to another darker place - Beren and Tinúviel broke his power, but that is quite another story."
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Then one appeared among us, in our own form visible, but greater and more beautiful; and he said that he had come out of pity.
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