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Well if we are sharing our headcanons regardin Orodreth/Gil-Galad:
Orodreth:
Orodreth was the eldest child, and only son of Angrod, the second son of Finarfin) and his wife Edhellos. He had one sister; Halloth, the Maiden of Dorthonion, born in the shaded woods of Middle Earth.
Though born during the days of bliss in Aman he was but a youth when the Trees were extinguished. Quiet and reluctant to contest his will with others he often fled Tirion, where the house of his father stood, to wander the hidden mountain paths by himself, singing as he did so.
During the Flight of the Noldor he was the only among the sons and grandsons of Finarfin that supported his grandsire's counsel to keep faith in the Valar and refrain from going to war against Morgoth. He did this not because of fear of the dark Vala or the hardship ahead, but because he had little thirst for vengeance or glory for his mind was always seeking not to rule and conquer, but to serve and protect. Still he joined the rebellion because of the love he bore his father and Finrod, his uncle.
In Middle Earth he felt great love for the lands of Angrod in Dorthonion and often wandered through its high pine forests. he also often went among the Sindar of that land, a rustic woodland folk. Among those he found his love and wife; a proud and lively huntress he named Meril, the rose, and under that name she was ever known among the Noldor.
When Finrod went to found Nargothrond he chose his nephew, rather than his youngest brother, Aegnor to be his steward in Minas Tirith, for he knew Tol Sirion needed a defender rather than a warrior. It was her that Orodreth's first child, Finduilas was born who inherited the golden hair of House Finarfin and grew to become much skilled in the ways of healing, a skill that would soon be sorely needed.
After the Dagor Bragollach he held Minas Tirith faithfully, only abandoning it after shielding the escape of not only his own people, but many of those who fled from the burning hills of Dorthonion, only at the last minute he abandoned his fortress to escape to Nargothrond himself.
There, Meril gave birth to his second child not long before Beren arrived in the Hidden City. This one was a son, whom Orodreth called Rodnor, but Meril called the child Gil-Galad With his last words to Orodreth Finrod asked his nephew to send Gil-Galad to be fostered by Cirdan to keep him safe, for he saw dark times ahead, but also that the child should one day lead the Noldor, naming him Ereinion, the Scion of Kings. Orodreth did as he was told, sending Meril and Ereinion to the Falathrim, but Finduilas refused to leave her father alone and remained at his side, serving dutifully as a healer for Nargothrond in the dark days to come.
So Gil-Galad grew up on the isle of Balar, learning much wisdom from Cirdan, and trained in martial arts by th warriors of the Falathrim from whom he learned to especially wield the spear, but he never saw his father or sister again.
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