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We can never know now; but it is the case that not only was G "an Elf-lord from a house of Princes", he was also, in the old version, the chief or lord of the House of the Golden Flower. This inplies very high rank even among the Noldor of Turgon's following, and so kinship either to the house of Finwe or of Inwe (or both) on the distaff side is not impossible.
(In another forum we worked out not long ago that if Gil-galad is restored to his proper place as Orodreth's son, then the Noldor practiced pure Salic succession and kingship descended neither to nor through females)
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The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.
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