Posted: June 08, 2000 at 04:27:53: by Michael Martinez
: I was under the (apparently misconceived) impression that the
: elf leading the survivors was named Glorfindel?Glorfindel led the rearguard. In "The Fall of Gondolin", when a Balrog leaped over his soldiers, he was all that stood between the creature and the women and children they were guarding. : I also believe that the lack of reused elven names stems from
: a common trait of reusing names within lineages and since elves
: do not really die (or at least only rarely) their names cannot
: be reused. The Elves reused names. But most of the Elves who are named in the histories are great kings and princes, and it was (apparently) a custom (among the Eldar, at least) that they did not bestow the names of great leaders upon their children.
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