March 10, 2003

Response to C. on Glorfindel
Peter D.

I agree with you that Glorfindel from the books would have been an cool character in a movie, but for various reasons (that have been dealt with exhaustively earlier in this forum) he was "replaced" with Arwen.

Just a little clearing up though - The Glorfindel in the Lord of the Rings is not the Glorfindel from the epic early ages described in the Silmarillion, who fights with a balrog in the aftermath of the sack on Gondolin. The LotR Glorfindel may be extremely old himself, but the two are not the same.