House of Finrod

[jallan]

One must remember also that in the early "Fall of Gondolin" there were thirteen Elvish Houses in Gondolin, one of them being the House of the King, one being the House of the Wing, which was Tuor’s house.

Tuor was a man, so the member's of his house could not be his relatives.

From Unfinished Tales, “Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin”:

And Voronwë cast back his hood, and his face shone in the ray, hard and clear, as if graven in stone; and Tuor marvelled to see its beauty. Then he spoke proudly, saying: ‘Know you not whom you see? I am Voronwë son of Aranwë of the House of Fingolfin.

Neither Voronwë or Aranwë appear in any genealogy of the royal families of the Elves, so this apparently only means that Voronwë or Aranwë was one of the followers of Fingolfin.

This other meaning of “house” means that Gildor’s father Inglor, in Tolkein’s revised genealogies, now becomes a member of the House of Finrod in this other sense, not the son of Finrod as he would orginally have been.

We are presumably to imagine Gildor and his companions as mostly Elves who once dwelt in Nargothrond, but not necessarily mostly closely related to Finrod.

 

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Originally posted by jallan
We are presumably to imagine Gildor and his companions as mostly Elves who once dwelt in Nargothrond, but not necessarily mostly closely related to Finrod.

This is what I believe now.

Until recently I had held out hope that the two could be related, and no matter how far fetched the idea might seem, no one could convince me that it was an impossible thing.

As might be noticed by some, I have learned quite a bit since I opened this thread, but last week while reading about Glorfindel and Galdor in PoMe, it just hit me: Changing Finrod's name back to Inglor just to eplainin Gildor does not feel to me, like someone that would ever have been done, and especially when Gildor could have been eplained as an elf of Nargothrond with distant or no relation to Finrod.

I suppose that Inglor is competely open for our imaginations, I somehow imagine that he died in an act of heroism during the first age, but he really could have been anywhere at anytime.