LOTR Wackiness!

[mirisa_ardruna]

There are few things more surreal than your almost hopelessly-pragmatic-in-his-own-mind father talking fandom with your boyfriend. But it happens at my house, at least with LOTR. My dad is a long-term Tolkien bookfiend (he had me reading Tolkien in early elementary school). Ryan is pretty much a fan through the films only, since he's not read

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Glorfindel

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I vaguely remember being puzzled by this once myself, actually, when reading the Silmarillion.

The answer to your question seems to be a sort of combination of all of the above (a continuity error that could have been fixed by making it a different character but was instead going to be settled by a resurrection story), according to the information compiled on wikipedia.