Are you suggesting that Luthien and Beren’s legacy was free of violence? I wonder if Thingol would agree, or Dior, or Elwing. Or the free wolves whose packs were decimated, bereft of their father.
In any case… what would our resistance be without violence? Would anyone care for orc martyrs, dying passively to promote their right to live? Would any of my Master’s works have survived, if he had not fought for them? Would the Valar not have erased him from history, as they did from their ranks?
And if I did not fight to remind them that their injustices were not forgotten, that I lived yet to avenge my lord, would they take notice at all from the comfort of their removed paradise?
Of course my legacy is a bloody one. So is yours. So are theirs.
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