glorfindel

(I'm getting extremely talented at asking amazingly stupid questions, but here goes: ) In The Silmarillion, Glorfindel dies helping the people of Gondolin escape: (Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin) So Glorfindel is dead, and yet in The Fellowship of the Ring, he shows up to lend Frodo his...

In his 1978 rendition of The Lord of the Rings, Ralph Bakshi replaced Glorfindel, who jumps into the story in The Fellowship of the Ring; Flight to the Ford, with Legolas. As we all know, Peter Jackson introduced Arwen in the role of Glorfindel. Which was a better 'solution' of the two...

Originally posted by Eledhwen in the thread "Wraithizing" I didn't feel like searching for the quotes in the book about Glorfindel, so I used what she said instead. Anyway, I thought that this brought up a question about Glorfindel's being. If the Black Riders have a different form in the...

Just wondering if anyone thought "Hey... it's Glorfindel!", when they saw that blonde elf on a white horse during the scene where Arwen ditches the company of elves.

My sister and I are sooo ticked off that Glorfindel wasn't in the movie. He saved Frodo! Not Arwen! Whoever agrees with me please reply!

An interesting question, accidentally suggested by RD. What do you think?

should Glorfindel have carryed frodo to Rivendell? In another topic that i started about the new ROTK game a person says that Glorfindel should have carryed frodo to Rivendell. I want to get everyones opinion on this topic. 1- Yes 2- No 3- Who cares?

when ppl complained about Glorfindel being ommitted, the defense came up with the brilliance of the filmaking genius that is PJ in saving the ignoramous audience from viewing a character for one scene only and then dissappearing... so the question beckons, who the heck are Freja her bro and...

From HoME XII; Last Writings; Glorfindel: 1. Why would Glorfindel need a Numenorean ship to take him to Middle Earth? One would suppose that the Elves (of Alqualonde) were more than capable in the craft of ship building. 2. Which do you think is more likely? His arrival in the...

In the Silmarillion, both Glorfindel and Haldir die. Glorfindel dies, I believe, after his battle with the balrog. Haldir dies in battle. However, both appear in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. How is this possible? I can think of two possibilities. 1) The Valar...

Let's compare Glorfindel and Ecthelion, two Balrog slayers. Glorfindel: - slew a Balrog - helped the Fellowship in the 3rd Age (assuming the two Glorfindels are one and the same) Ecthelion: - slew the Balrog (so to speak) - Gothmog, who was the mightiest Balrog Which would you say...

Who would win. I picked Glorfindel.

Okay. Here's what I don't get. All the hoopla about cutting out Glorfindel was because he was a minor character and wasn't in the rest of it anyway, plus they needed to introduce Arwen. Why did they beef up Haldir's role? He virtually did squat (or at least as much as Gildor and Glorfindel)...

Did Elrond know when Glorfindel and the Istari were coming back to Middle-Earth, or did Cirdan know? Because if they didn't know it must have been quite a surprise and said "hey Elrond" or "hey Cirdan, do you mind if I live with you for a few thousand years?"(well live with in the case of...

I was just wondering if anyone knew because he was at Rivendell at the time and was a high elf respected among the noldor so why wouldn't he be invited? If anyone knows if Jackson put glorfindel int he movie please speak

Now, If I remember correctly, (from The Encyclopedia of Arda), Tolkien never gave a concrete reference, but he indeed meant that Glorfindel of Rivendell was the reincarnated Glorfindel from Gondolin. Gandalf even mentions something about ones like Glorfindel existing both in the West and in ME...

Hi all, Yes, this is yet another "flight to the ford" thread; although not intended as a criticism of the film-makers' decision to use Arwen instead of Glorfindel. Let me begin by saying that I rather liked the sequence as portrayed in the film. Probably less due to the choice of character...

Speculations of the lineage of Glorfindel... Putting these three statements together it would seem reasonable to suppose that Glorfindel was a prince of the House of Finarfin, that is to say a decendant of Finarfin himself. Yet there is no direct mention of this in any of Tolkien's work. At...

How the heck could Peter Jackson have possibly justified introducing Glorfindel into the movie for about 5 minutes of screen time and then "forgetting" about him for the rest of the trilogy? Viewers and critics would have dismissed him as some aberrant and overly convenient plot device. I...

There is a Glorfindel battling a Balrog over Gondolin, and a Glorfindel in Rivendell. Now, I've heard that they're the same Glorfindel, that Tolkien made an error, that the first one died, and was reincarnated... What is the real answer?