Courage is not the absence of Fear. But rather the knowledge that something else is more important than Fear.
Son of Fëanor by Svetlana Nikonova
Maglor The second son of Feanor, a great singer and minstrel; held the lands called Maglor’s Gap; at the end of the First Age seized with Maedhros the two Silmarils that remained in Middle-earth, and cast the one that he took into the Sea.
In the earliest drafts, Maglor actually drowned himself in the Sea along with the Silmaril. I’ve read debates on how long he lived after the War of Wrath, especially considering that all of Beleriand was flooded. He either escaped somehow, or he eventually drowned along with the land.If he did survive till this day, I shudder to think what horrors he may have encountered. Seeing a depressed man alone near the sea would not have sat well with early 20th century doctors…or perhaps I was brainwashed too much into fear by this story.
