Gil-galad: The King Tolkien Never Finished | Silmarillion Explained
Who was Gil-galad's father? Tolkien never decided. This deep dive traces the last High King of the Noldor through four contradictory drafts — Fëanor, Finrod, Fingon, Orodreth — and the thirty-five centuries he actually reigned.He raised Lindon from drowned Beleriand's wreckage, shut his door on Annatar while Celebrimbor and Eregion opened theirs, and wrote to Númenor for eight hundred years asking for help that mostly never came. Then Dagorlad, Orodruin, and the spear Aeglos: Gil-galad and Elendil brought Sauron down, and neither walked away.He left no wife, no heir, no grave, and not one…
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