: maybe it is Tolkien doing the "english" thing of the middle ages.. when u had like 7 Henrys and 50 Edwards and so on.

: maybe it just shows the creativity of the elves to all have different names.. or am i just missing some*?

: the only one* i can think of it Gelmir.. yet there are a load of doubles in amoungst the humans.

Let's not forget Legolas Greenleaf. Not the Legolas of the Fellowship, but the one who led the survivors from Gondolin in The Fall of Gondolin.