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Originally Posted by Galin
I don't know if Tolkien meant the two texts to be taken this way: in other words, maybe the text published in The Lord of the Rings was meant to supersede the description in Of the Rings of Power; but in any case it appears that 'High Elves' can have more than one application.
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Upon further examination, it seems 'High Elves' in
LOTR does refer exclusively to the Noldor.
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'These are High Elves! They spoke the name of Elbereth!' said Frodo in amazement!
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'Gildor Inglorion of the House of Finrod. We are Exiles, and most of our kindred have long ago departed and we too are now only tarrying here a while, ere we return over the Great Sea. But some of our kinsfolk dwell still in peace in Rivendell.
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Exiles=Noldor
I found another quote in
ROTK that supports the statement in the
Prologue.
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Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on.....with them went many Elves of the High Kindred who would no longer stay in Middle-earth.
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So, the answer to the question of when the last of the High Elves left for the West seems to depend upon which text Tolkien intended to be the 'final word'; the
Silmarillion or the
LOTR.
I would prefer to think they all went with Elrond, as that simply seems the most fitting to me.