The Ultimate Discourse About Gildor

[Galin]

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

... none the less, at the time Tolkien wrote the chapter Inglor was the founder of Nargothrond, not just 'some Elf', and I just don't see any indication at all that Gildor was ever conceived as descendant of Finwe. ...

Right, I'm aware that Inglor was Felagund, but with respect to the later context, Inglor can be 'some Elf' (is all that I mean), no matter what Tolkien thought when he was writing the chapter.

I'll add that one of my comments above refers to a distinction in Quenya (better explained by Nerwen), posted because of what had been said earlier in the thread (including the Quenya examples), so as to try to distinguish between the Q. nominative plural marker and the Q. genitive.

That said, Gildor Inglorion would be Sindarin in my opinion. In short the genitive in Sindarin is another matter, but I still think we have the patronymic here in any case.