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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Tol Morwen
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Is Eol technically a Nando?
Judging from these lines: Quote:
It does seem to me that Tolkien's last point about Eol's kinship with Thingol being important raises doubts about the validity of his previous statement that Eol was one of the Teleri that refused to cross the Hithaeglir/Misty Mountains (i.e. the folk who later became known as the Nandor). Nonetheless, I'm not completely convinced that these two ideas are mutually exclusive - since (and I can't remember the exact source) it wasn't unheard of later Elvish immigrants to Beleriand, such as the Nandor and even Avari, becoming (in effect) 'Sindar'. Of course, even if Eol really was a Nando, this fact alone doesn't invalidate any kinship to Thingol per se, since the Nandor are of course a subgroup of Teleri! P.S. Before someone inevitably comments about Eol being a Tatyarin Avar: that idea was scrapped altogether. Anyway, I'd really like some input from people more familiar with the dating/interpretation of the various Eol/Maeglin texts.
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