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Re: Family tree
Gandalf the White:
In my previous post, just before yours, I quoted JRRT's words on Glorfindel that when he joined the rebellion, "he did so reluctantly because of
kinship with Turgon", words it appears you missed.
Glorfindel is therefore kin to Turgon, by blood or possibly by marriage. My previous post gives some possibilites. I concentrated on closer relationships rather than going back to Indis, but Glorfindel certainly could be related through Indis presuming that Glorfindel's father was a Noldo. The Eldar are very partriarchal in their clan affiliations it would appear.
From
The War of the Jewels (HoME 11), "Quendi and Eldar",
Vanyar:<blockquote>
Quote:<hr> Owing to intermarriage the golden hair of the Vanyar sometimes later appeared among the Ñoldor: notably in the case of Finarfin, and in his children Finrod and Galadriel, in whom it came from King Finwë's second wife, Indis of the Vanyar.<hr></blockquote>This corrects the carelessly inaccurate attribution in LR of golden hair among the Eldar
only to the golden house of Finarfin, denying it even to the Vanyar: this same inaccurate account which has led to commentaries insisting that Glorfindel must be of the House of Finarfin since only there was golden hair found.
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