Enough about the fucking eagles. Why didn't Glorfindel, aka the dude who one v oned a fucking balrog and won, go with the fellowship? he was in Rivendell
>>24823265Didn't he die fighting the balrog in Gondolin? Or am I thinking of someone else?
>>24823321he's alive in LotR. he's the one who saves Frodo from the Ring Wraths outside Rivendell in the books
>>24823322>Towards the end of his life, Tolkien would devote his last writings to the issue of Glorfindel and some related topics, as detailed in The Peoples of Middle-earth.[T 5][2] Christopher Tolkien stated that his father had not conceived the Glorfindel of The Lord of the Rings as the same person as the similarly named Elf of Gondolin, but had simply reused the name.[T 6]Ah. Shenanigans. It also turns out Glorfindel was originally a member of the fellowship in the first drafts
why didn't he shoot isildur with an arrow when he showed the weakness of man
OP here, I was merely pretending to be retarded. The reason Glorfindel didn't go is because by not going Merry and Pippin got captured and met the tree dudes and took down Sauramon and Gandalf got killed and came back as Gandalf the White to help take down Sauramon once and for all and Merry and Pippin were able to lead the hobbits to take back the shire from sharky at the end because they had the experience with the trees. Aka, because it was God's plan, just as it was God's plan for Golum to destroy the ring, Blessed be Jesus Christ, Amen, Nick fuenties is a fucking retard if LotR goes over his head
>>24823330... taking the Ring by force is basically succombing to the Ring before even wielding it. Then Men and Elves would've been at war. The victor would've either succumbed to Sauron or replaced him as a kind of benevolent dictator.
>>24823351if he shot him as he stood above the fuckin chasm in such a way that the dude fell into the pit, it wouldn't matter who did it or why. the ring would have still fallen into the fuckin pit and none of that shot would have happened.
>"But that will leave no place for us!" cried Pippin in dismay. "We don't want to be left behind. We want to go with Frodo.">"That is because you do not understand and cannot imagine what lies ahead," said Elrond.>"Neither does Frodo," said Gandalf, unexpectedly supporting Pippin. "Nor do any of us see clearly. It is true that if these hobbits understood the danger, they would not dare to go. But they would still wish to go, or wish that they dared, and be shamed and unhappy. I think, Elrond, that in this matter it would be well to trust rather to their friendship than to great wisdom. Even if you chose for us an Elf-lord, such as Glorfindel, he could not storm the Dark Tower, nor open the road to the Fire by the power that is in him."
>>24823366why not just take a 10th dude?
Something something it wasn't his fight and he couldn't have 1-v1'd sauron anyway, so it didn't matter
>>24823265you see anon by the third age the time if elves was over. the age if the orc cometh.narrated Mauhur captain of Mordor:said Shagrat:'o snaga, o servant of sauron, there is a calaquendi behind me, kill him!'this was not the first time glorfindel had been sent back to middle earth, if you read letter 67 by tolkien (the one to his gay lover) youd know that glorfindel had successfully infiltrated outer heaven and zanzibar land, but he had learned the hard way one does not simply walk into mordor. you see,>glorfindel was an elven-lord>from whose hips swung the heaviest swordwhy do you think the men of rohan are fair-haired after all? you want to send this nigga to mordor? the orcs would see the light of the trees in his eyes from a league away. personally, i have to wonder WHY they sent glorfindel out of aman? they arent sending their best from the west that is forgotten. kinslayers, exiles, failures. and some, i assume, are good people.i am not saying 3A glorfindel is the fair form of sauron but he did only appear suspiciously close to the death of "sauron". In fact its likely that "sauron", ie annatar, is the 'real' glorfindel, and the 'fake' glorfindel in the movie is 'sauron', who like annatar (glorfindel) claims to have been an emissary of the valar.elrond knows this, and thats why they make a big show of not vesting the ring with "glorfindel" (sauron) and instead giving it to the hobbits (hobbits) who then carry it to mordor to defeat sauron (glorfindel).
>>24823265didn't you also post this in /tv/?
>>24823653yeah, and /his/ and /v/. the /v/ one's the funniest
>>24823265iirc the reasoning was that Glorfindel fucking off on a journey for seemingly no reason is a big beacon over the Fellowships head to say 'One Ring here'. Gandalf gets the excuse that he's always moving somewhere. So despite his overwhelming power and skill it would completely ruin any pretense of secrecy the moment they see Glorfindel fucking around with Gandalf and friends.
