Sporozc09
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I was just listening to class 120, and during the discussion of the fact that the poem is from a mortal perspective, I couldn't help but thinking about the context of the poem being composed and recited in the House of Elrond. The poem ending with an emphasis of Earindil's doom and his inability to return to the northern shores seems to me like it might be a compassionate perspective to take given that that's where his sons Elrond and Elros, who probably miss him a great deal and might even resent his absence, are. In a sense, Bilbo could be saying to Elrond, "Your dad went away on this great quest and never returned, but he wanted to return. He just couldn't because of this mighty doom laid on him."