Maybe the Countess didn't actually murder her mother. Maybe she was actually to kill scare away her mother's lesbian lover.
Maybe her mother wanted to run away from the battlefield to lower her self-esteem and lead her to suicide!
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
I thought Tom Bombadil dreadful — but worse still was the announcer's preliminary remarks that Goldberry was his daughter (!), and that Willowman was an ally of Mordor (!!).