[Man-of-the-Wold]

This was rather beside the point when I started this thread eight years ago, about whether Gildor was negligent or prescient in how he helped Frodo, and that his assistance was a great deal more than met the idea and critical to the story, but no, Gildor is not a decedent of Finwe. Don't be silly. Aside from the Line of Elros, only Elrond, Galadriel and their children have such lineage in Middle-Earth. That Gildor was of high rank among the people of that House is indisputable. As for the other elves in his wandering company, I think it is fair to say that whatever he said or did, it was in keeping with the other members, who were no more or less selfish than he, but there is still the practical point of their being a probably not well-armed group of elven people.