[ SECRET POST #3451 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3451 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: Character fuck-ups you absolutely love

[(Anonymous)]

lol. In which of the books does this happen? I know he's not in The Hobbit, but my memory of the LOTR trilogy is hazy at best...

Re: Character fuck-ups you absolutely love

[(Anonymous)]

It's briefly told in the Silmarillion, but the longer and more detailed version is in the Book of Lost Tales. This was about 6,500 years before LOTR.

To explain a bit more: after dying, elves spend up to several thousand years in a version of the underworld and are then re-embodied in Valinor, the paradise in the west where they were all sailing to in LOTR. Glorfindel was re-embodied fairly quickly, after somewhere between 1000-3000 years after he died, and actually went back to Middle Earth to help out with the disaster that was the later second age (which re-embodied elves usually aren't allowed to do). It's not explained precisely why he came back and no other elves we know of did, since he's not particularly special or irreplaceable, but a common fan theory is that since he died protecting Elrond's dad and grandparents, he was incredibly devoted to the family and was allowed or chosen to return to protect and serve Elrond (since Elrond's life is a 6000 year conga line of death and misery and he had an insane level of responsibility, I can quite believe he'd need all the help he could get to not go batshit insane.)