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  1. Public Bookmark 52

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    The Halls of Mandos are known to be strange but there's no precendent for running into other people who claim to be you.

    Gil-Galad meets some other Gil-Galads and reflects on the essence of Gil-Galadness.

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    28 Jan 2022

  2. Public Bookmark 64

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    What really happened in the Nargothrond incident

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    How Curufin and Celegorm came into the possession of a tiny Finrod, why magic rings are never a good idea and why Gil-Galad is not who you think he is.

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    16 Jan 2022

  3. Public Bookmark 91

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    How to reconcile Tolkien’s various Gil-gilad origins; or, the Noldor do Weird Science.

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    08 Jan 2022

  4. Public Bookmark 10

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    Gil-galad was the scion of kings,
    Of him the flighty Tehta sings.

     

     

    Tolkien seems to have found figuring out Gil-Galad's paternity particularly difficult. Who was Gil-Galad's father, really? Was it Fingon? Finrod? Orodreth? (Which Orodreth?) Cirdan? It is an interesting question, and one this fic completely fails to answer. It does, however, answer the question of who his mother was. Anyway. Warning for, um, authorial self-insertion.

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    08 Jan 2022

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    He picks the name because it sounds good and because he can hardly use the one he's been called for the past twenty years of his life.

    (And if he likes the legacy inherent in it, in the idea of having a line of ancestors he knows and can be proud of, it's not something he thinks on overmuch.)

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    07 Jan 2022