InTheChair
Nargothrond
Oct 30 2020, 7:08pm
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He ran out of time certainly, but that was for the first age, not the second.
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My only conclusion is that Tolkien intended to flesh out the Second Age, just like he had the first and the Third (mainly LOTR story/quest). He just simply ran out of time before his death.
My guess on that would be that Tolkien never had any intention to fleshing out the Second age in that way, although he may have wanted to write the Downfall of Numenor in some detail.
With Tolkien it seems very often it started with a Name or a word, and its meaning and intention, and then he tried to adapt the story to fit around that.
He re-used the name Glorfindel in LotR:s, and then because he considered it such a remarkable name, he concluded that it must be the same Glorfindel he has written about in the first age.
Therefore Glorfindel must have come back from Mandos, and returned to Middle-earth, probably in a role similar to the Istari, though perhaps to work in the second age, or else against the Witch-king of Angmar.
I do not think Tolkien intended to go into any more detail than that.
Of course it raises all kinds of questions, like the ones you have brought up. Not the least of is, what motivated Glorfindel to return to Middle-Earth at all?
Why was he still there at the time of Frodo's quest?
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(This post was edited by InTheChair on Oct 30 2020, 7:09pm)
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