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[Faramir Jones]

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.

According to Volume XII of The History of Middle-earth, Tolkien had originally thought of killing Celebrían. In an early outline of the Third Age is this entry: 'c. 2600 Celebrían 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)