Proposed FoG Agenda

[Maédhros]

Issues:
1. Rog: I don't think that we can reach an unanimous compromise. I'm of the opinion that the character and his name should be retained. I know that lindil is against this but, I think that it would be a shame to delete all of that part of the battle and that the name Rog does appear in the Quenta account.
I should make clear that, Rog does not kill any Balrog in our account.

2. The two poems: I personally think that it would be a shame to not use them in our version. As Squatter has already posted, some of the magic of the original Horns of Ylmir is lost with our emendations, and if no suitable corrections are found, I think it would be better to leave it in our appendix and not the main text.
Regarding the Lay of Eärendel, I think that we might find some way to retain it in such a way as to use it as our beginning of Eärendil's chapter so that we preserve the fact that it was to be the beginning of it.

3. The minute issue of "tallest of the Children of the World": I have presented a proposal in which both differing views can be retained. Keep the main text as Aiwendil wants and with a foonote indicate that his brother Argon was taller than Turgon.

4. Is Gil-Galad at the Havens or on Balar?: I have been thinking at this for a long time. The problem that I see it is as follows, in the account of the Parentage of Gil Galad

Finrod left his wife in Valinor and had no children in exile. Angrod's son was Artaresto, who was beloved by Finrod and escaped when Angrod was slain, and dwelt with Finrod. Finrod made him his 'steward' and he succeeded him in Nargothrond. His Sindarin name was Rodreth (altered to Orodreth because of his love of the mountains .. ..... His children were Finduilas and Artanáro = Rodnor later called Gil-galad. (Their mother was a Sindarin lady of the North. She called her son Gil-galad.) Rodnor Gil-galad escaped and eventually came to Sirion's Mouth and was King of the Ñoldor there.

The problem with Gil-Galad being in Sirion this early in the story is that what was his rôle in the battle with the sons of Fëanor?
What I would propose is the following:

Have Gil-Galad escaped from the Fall of Nargothrond and for him to go first to the Isle of Balar and after the War of Wrath, he came to Sirion's Mouth and became King of the Ñoldor. Notice the use of the word eventually. This to me opens the possiblity of his going first to Balar and then to Siron's Mouth.

6 and 7. The Elessar and The Oarni: I already made my point on that in part 5 of the discussion of the Fog.
My thoughts on the Elessar are almost exaclty those as Aiwendil's excecpt that I would be vague as to who made it. (Because Enerdhil was to be discarded by JRRT.)
I would keep the Oarni, though they seem outdated and discontinued, that does not necessarily means that they were abandoned.