It's all in the family: The Finweans: Re: Re: Gildor

» LeftyScaevola - Re: Re: Gildor

In response to message posted by Michael_Martinez:

Family relations, adoptions, etc, must necessarily be very different among biological immortals than among mortals. When you have thousands of years to establish who you are, it is less important who your ancestors were. I would suspect that most of the rules for heirship and ancesteral relations were developed in the royal and princely families, to account for passing of leadership.
Another hypothesis I had for Gildor consistent with the text, EXCEPT for him being an Exile, is that he is a grandson or later descendant of Finrod through female descent making him one of the family, but not a royal heir.

-- posted by LeftyScaevola