Posted: March 28, 2000 at 15:38:07: by Michael Martinez
: : I don't understand why people don't want Gil-galad to be
: : Orodreth's son. This was Tolkien's decision on the matter.
: : Christopher Tolkien has admitted that he interjected the
: : incorrect lineage for Gil-galad into THE SILMARILLION.: I guess most people (me included) doesn't like to change their
: minds on something they thought they knew, they don't want to
: admit they're wrong. No matter if it was a mistake or not, the
: Silmarillion says that Gil-Galad was the son of Fingon so when
: you read the PoME many years later, it is hard to believe that
: Silm was wrong, so a lot of people denie it. I also believe
: that Gil-Galad was the son of Fingon, but I know I can't prove
: it. But why invest yourself emotionally in something that has been repudiated? I read THE SILMARILLION for the first time in 1977. For twenty years I believed Gil-galad was the son of Fingon (and wondered why he didn't become High King of the Noldor before Turgon). When Christopher explained the error, everything made sense. Gil-galad as Fingon's son stands out like a sore thumb when you try to figure out how the Noldor passed the High Kingship around. And it's not like there is any real story about Gil-galad in THE SILMARILLION. He is, of all the Noldorin kings, the one whom Tolkien wrote the least about.
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