What REALLY happened to Gwindor?

[Eol]

What really happened to Gwindor


After a small discussion on another thread about Luthien, it came to my curiousity of what happened to Gwindor during his captivity and slavery to Morgoth. He saw the slaughter of his brother during their battle and was capture shortly afterwards. He was later found my Beleg during the serach for Turin who was captured by the Orcs.

Gwindor returned home to the kingdom once ruled by Finrod Felagund. He had a lady friend,Finduilas, whom he loved deeply. Though this changes and her heart goes to Turin, but he loves her not. She becomes sorrowful and confused to what to do. Gwindor gives her this advice.

But Gwindor sat in dark thoughts; and on a time her spoke to Findauilas saying,' Daughter of the house of Finarfin, let no grief lie between us, for though Morgoth had laid my life in ruin, you still I love. Go whither love leads you; yet beware! It is not befitting that the Elder Children of Iluvatar should wed with the Younger; nor is it wise, for they are brief, and soon pass, to leave us in widowhood while the world lasts. Neither will fate suffer it, unless it be once or twice only, for some high cause for doom that we do not perceive.....

Silmarillion, 210

Gwindor goes on to say that a terrible doom lays on Turin and it is not the same as Beren and Luthien. Turin gets upset as he finds out his friend calls him cursed finding it herasy, when in fact even Morgoth tells his father, Hurin, that he is to sit and watch all those close to him fall under a terrible curse.


What happened to Gwindor? Who was he before the capture and how did he change once he fled? What would have caused Finduilas to have a change of heart and love a Man?

[ August 11, 2002: Message edited by: Eol ]