just to clear up some things about Glorfindel: Tolkien specifically said that
was indeed the same Glorfindel of Gondolin that perished when he slew the
Balrog. the people of Gondolin were Turgon's people, so they were most likely
Noldor. also, Glorfindel has golden hair, so he was probably akin to
Finarfin...this would make him, in addition to galadriel, one of the High
Elves, the Exiles of Valinor, that is still alive during the
WOTR.
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"Then the music drifted from me and
that music losed its bands--
Far, far-off, conches calling--lo! I
stood in the sweet lands,
And the meadows were about me where
the weeping willows grew,
Where the long grass stirred beside me
and my feet were drenched with dew,
Only the reeds were rustling, but a
mist lay on the streams
Like a sea-roke drawn far inland, like
a shred of salt sea-dreams.
'Twas in the Land of Willows that I
heard th' unfathomed breath
Of the Horns of Ylmir calling--and
shall hear them till my death."
