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Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc
but to bring back some Fingolfin in the middle of the Third Age sounds pretty bad. Aside from the fact that the Elves were leaving the M-E, and their realms were diminishing (I think a good formulation would be "were supposed to diminish, not to grow", if I can phrase it like that).
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Quite. And I feel it would have been much better if Tolkien left Glorfy in Valinor as well.
In the Third Age ME Glorfindel becomes a Mary-Sue, complete with blond hair, shining inner light, super-powers (scarier than a Maia, isn't he?), jingle-bells on his bridle and even an animal familiar (Asfaloth). I always hated the guy - and was so very glad he was not included into the Fellowship. With characters of such power the story simply becomes uninteresting.