Elves are not classless: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/rwf.downing/lhigh.htm (Although they got Thranduil and Legolas's ancestry wrong ( Read more... )

The hall of Elrond’s house was filled with folk; Elves for the most part, though there were a few guests of other sorts. Elrond, as was his custom, sat in a great chair at the end of the long table upon the dais; and next to him on the one side sat Glorfindel, on the other side sat Gandalf ( Read more... )

Rewatching the extended editions of LoTR, I realised they designed a crest for Glorfindel. :D


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Many are the songs that have been sung of the duel of Glorfindel with the Balrog upon a pinnacle of rock in that high place; and both fell to ruin in the abyss. But the eagles coming stooped upon the Orcs, and drove them shrieking back; and all were slain or cast into the deeps, so that rumour of the escape from Gondolin came not until long after ( Read more... )

( Flight to the Ford )

((Pertinent details: Pointy-eared Elf-Lord, older than dirt. I'm playing it as though the two Glorfindels in Tolkienverse are one and the same, as the author himself said was the case. Upon being resurrected, Glorfindel was granted Mary Sue powers on par with the Maiar (aka Gandalf and Saruman and the other Istari). In other words, mad powah. For ( Read more... )

Glorfindel was tall and straight; his hair was of shining gold, his face fair and young and fearless and full of joy; his eyes were bright and keen, and his voice like music; on his brow sat wisdom, and in his hand was strength.
-The Lord of the Rings