: : : Again in another HoME, (in the Grey Annals?), there is a
: : : listing of Orodreth's son Haldir - I think this was edited out
: : : later - and also don't forget Findulias, who remained in the
: : : Silmarillion. I'm in the Fingolfin-Fingon geneology camp for
: : : Gil Galad, so I'll take any excuse I can find to keep Gil Galad
: : : away from Orodreth's line :)

: : 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.

: It's probably just a personal preference.. and maybe because it was the lineage that I learned first and my conception of it was firmly planted into my mind from that. Again personally, I find it to be a more impressive geneology. I realize that it is incorrect as to Tolkien's decisions, but to a good number of people who aren't as in depth in reading his works, the assumption remains from The Silmarillion that Gil Galad is the son of Fingon.

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As a continuation of that, I guess I find it more literarily thematic to have the line of Fingolfin extend to Gil Galad; the parallelism in their deaths is more intriguing that way: Fingolfin at the hand of Morgoth, Gil Galad at the hand of Sauron.