The Ultimate Discourse About Gildor

[Galin]

I would agree Nerwen that perhaps Tolkien saw no great problem from a revised context point of view. I do think 'House of Finrod' implies family ties. In the entry for root NÔ- from Etymologies:

noss clan, family, 'house', as Nos Finrod House of Finrod.

In PE17 NO- is still a root for 'generation, people, folk, large group regarded as of common ancestry.' It seems possible that Nos Finrod was used by some in Middle-earth for (essentially) Nos Finarfin, considering that Finarfin stayed in the West.

Since I'm in Etymologies, under root ID-

'Q. indo heart, mood; cf. Indlour, Inglor (Indo-klár or Indo-glauré). N. inn, ind inner thought, meaning, heart.'

Inglor could mean 'gold-heart' according to this -- or 'splendour-heart' 'N. poetical claur splendour, glory -- often in names in form -glor' (Etymologies KAL-), and thus possibly 'gold-hearted' with Inglorion.

Though again there seems to be a later interpretation that fits with the linguistic history landed on for The Lord of the Rings (meaning Inglor as a Sindarization of Ingalaure). In PE17 indo appears, seemingly 'mind, region/range of thought, mood' from IN-I-D 'mind, inner thought'