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The White CouncilRe: Gildor InglorionTolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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The White CouncilRe: Gildor InglorionTolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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Posted by Stephen Geard on June 24, 1999 at 23:35:41 In Reply to: Gildor Inglorion posted by Frederic on June 23, 1999 at 11:33:34:
He said "I am ... Gildor Inglorion of the House of Finrod." At that stage in the development of Middle-earth in Tolkien's imgination Finrod was the name of Finarfin, and Inglor was the name of Finrod Felagund. Gildor also says that he was one of the Noldorin Exiles from Valinor. "Inglor" was abandoned as the name of Felagund, altho the Quenya form Inglaure remained the mother-name of Finarfin. I don't have time to prove it now (in my lunchbreak) but I have elsewhere demonstrated at length that Gildor cannot have been a descendant of Finarfin, without him also being Gil-galad's heir (and there is no suggestion anywhere that Gil-galad had an heir). The phrase "of the House of X" does not necessarily imply descent from X. In the "Unfinished Tuor" in UT, Voronwe introduces himslef as "of the House of Fingolfin," be we know he was not descended from Fingolfin. He was "of" the House as a servant not a son. The Sindarin "Inglorion" employs the masculine genetive suffix "-ion" which can mean literal descent from (e.g. Aragorn Arathornion, in the King's letter in the abandoned epilog to the LOTR); or it can be used in a figurative sense (e.g. Sirion, a river the Son of Streams). Any Knight of Nargothrond could have used the epiphets "Inglorion" and "House of Finrod."
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