June 18, 2003

More Elvish Reincarnation
[quote From] ChrisTolkien

"...Years later, long after the publication of the Lord of the Rings, My father gave a great deal of thought to the matter of Glorfindel, and at that time he wrote: '[the use of Glorfindel] in The Lord of the Rings is one of the cases of the somewhat random use of the names found in the older legends, now referred to as The Silmarillion, which escaped reconsideration in the final published form of The Lord of the Rings.' he came ot the conclusion that Glorfindel of Gondolin, who fell to his death in combat with at Balrog after the sack of the city, and Glorfindel of Rivendell were one and the same: he was released from Mandow and returned to Middle-earth in the Second Age"

- Christopher Tolkien. The Return of the Shadow: History of Middle Earth #6. At Rivendel: pp. 214-215. Houghton Mifflin publishing.

This ought to clear something up!

-a fan