Posted: January 16, 2000 at 16:28:12: by Michael Martinez
: : Lines of succession among the Eldar and other races ran to
: : male heirs by way of male descent. Daughters were not heirs,
: : and neither was a son of a sister or a daughter.: Except, of course,1) that Dior is called Thingol's heir in
: places ("Elwing...daughter of Dior, Thingols heir..."), note
: the punctuation making this descriptive of function not a name.
: Also Dior himself states "...I am the heir of King Elwe...".
: 2)Idril Celebrindal, Turgon's daughter, is refered to as
: Turgon's heir. 3) Maeglin, son of Aredhel, sister of Turgon, is
: implied to at least have the possibility of being Turgon's
: heir. The chapters "Of Maeglin" and "Of Earendil and the Fall of Gondolin" also owe a great deal to Christopher Tolkien. : : We know this was the law among the Noldor: when Turgon died
: : the High Kingship passed to his fairly distant nephew Rodnor
: : Gil-galad (son of Arothir Orodreth) rather than to his
: : grandson Earendil. The latter was not of male descent. : Earendil was seven years old. Also I can say that the High
: Kingship passed to Gil-galad because he was the eldest male of
: the House of Fingolfin (this was, as I recall, one of the
: reasons Maedhros gave up the Kingship to Fingolfin and in the
: process, for other reasons as well, disinherited his own House
: from the title. Gil-galad was from the House of Finarfin, not the House of Fingolfin. : : It is my view that Dior was not Thingol's legal heir. I tend
: : to agree with MM that Dior's refounding of Doriath was his
: : own decision.
:
: But nontheless done as Thingol's heir. The "Thingol's Heir" business is really irrelevant, unless it was foretold that he would reestablish Thingol's realm (but this is not stated or implied anywhere).
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