Your Take On Eöl & Maeglin

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Originally Posted by Nikkolas

Did Maeglin get up one day and say "I'm going to betray everyone so I can get my cousin?" No. He was captured, tortured, and broken by the greatest evil ever to exist. Pardon if i can sympathize with horrific pain Maeglin experienced more than Feanor merely losing his dad. It was tragic yes but how many people, Elves, Men, Dwarves, lost their fathers in all the Ages? And yet probably not even 1% of them went on to commit the atrocities Feanor did.

Maeglin was never tortured; just intimidated.

He would have done well to follow the example of Hurin, who suffered far more at Morgoth's hands.