Maedhros wrote:
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The problem is that at that time, Thingol was already dead.
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Not exactly - perhaps it got missed, but I pointed out above that, although Thingol's death has already been
told in the previous chapter, Tuor's arrival in Gondolin actually takes place before Thingol's death. Unless I've miscalculated, Tuor arrives in Gondolin in 496 and Thingol dies in 503.
Perhaps we could use a modification of Findegil's proposal - "tallest of the living Children of the World, save Thingol" or "tallest living Child of the World, save Thingol".
If not, then I definitely think we should delete the sentence.
I hesitate to make the addition from LQ2 concerning Idril's hair. My only reason is that I think we ought to use it instead in the section on the Building of Gondolin, where it is in LQ2 - and I do not think we should use exactly the same sentence in two places. I suppose we
could delete it from the Building of Gondolin and put it in here, but I don't think we should move text around like that without a very good reason.