The Last ⚔️Battle

[Elendil3119]

(BTW Beleg, yes..Gil-Galad is Fingon's son...and anyway, the HoME are no more reliable-Gothmog, son of Melko???!!!)

You must be careful with the time-line of the writings... In the last few years of his life, Tolkien wrote that Gil-galad was the son of Orodreth, not Fingon. There are a few threads in the Guild of Scholars that deal with the subject of discrepancies in Tolkien's writings. Here they are:

Published Silmarillion vs. HoMe
Discrepancies in Tolkien's Writings

 

[Ithrynluin]

Originally posted by Morgoth"sBane
(BTW Beleg, yes..Gil-Galad is Fingon's son...and anyway, the HoME are no more reliable-Gothmog, son of Melko???!!!)

Depends what material you are looking at - Gothmog as Melkor's son was abandoned by Tolkien himself. Gil-galad as Orodreth's son was Tolkien's last view on GG's parentage. So there you have it - what Tolkien wrote in the last years of his life should be taken as fact (unless it's something that doesn't make sense at all!).

 

[Helcaraxë]

Yes, that's certainly true, but you still have'nt answered my question.

 

[Inderjit S]

(BTW Beleg, yes..Gil-Galad is Fingon's son...and anyway, the HoME are no more reliable-Gothmog, son of Melko???!!!)

Please make sure you know what you are talking about before commenting. Just because you have read BoLT doesn't mean all hoME is the same. BoLT-Tolkiens early ideas.
HoME 3-poem versions of Narn i Hin Hurin and Lay of Leithian they fit in with the early style of Tolkiens legendarium.
HoME 4-Early Silmarillion.
HoME 5-Second Silmarillion+Lost Road a different Tolkiens story.
HoME 6-9, drafts of LoTR
HoME 10-12, Essays on F.A and others plus the Silmarillion with which the published Silmarillion is based.

Note this is a VERY condensed description.

 

[Helcaraxë]

I DO know what I'm talking about. Meaning no offense, but what you said was'nt very polite. I understand that BoLT was Tolkien's early ideas, but regardless, that has nothing to do with what I'm saying, which is that all Music of the Ainur versions agree (even in the version of the Music of the Ainur in BoLT) that there will be a second music.