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Old 02-13-2004, 03:57 PM   #24
Maédhros
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I was reading the Celebrimbor thread in this forum and of the Elessar.
I'm of the opinion that:
1. Celebrimbor is a descendant of Fëanor, and with the bit that we have added from the Shibboleth, I can see no way that Turgon would have admitted him to Gondolin (even though had Celebrimbor had resigned his ancestry).
2. How would have Celebrimbor had reached Gondolin in the first place?
3. How would Celebrimbor had given the Elessar to Idril if not in Gondolin?
Mithadan posted a very insteresting solution but unfortunately it falls in the realm of Fan Fic.
4. Enerdhil was to be discarded by JRRT.

I wonder if we could do the following:
Remove the name of Enerdhil from the story and state that it was an ancient smith of Gondolin who made it, and it was given to Idril. Basically it is the same idea as that of Aiwendil but without the name of Enerdhil.

The Oarni, to me seems a bit of awkward in retaining them but we do have, as Aiwendil stated, a precedent with the Mechanical Monsters so I would say to keep them.
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