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Originally Posted by Nerwen
Well, I'm not sure Wikipedia should be "choosing" at all, in this case.
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If I had to choose I would choose
Irien over
Irime -- but for clarity, I didn't and don't mean that in the context
of me writing a Wikipedia article. That's my choice for my personal internal history.
If I were to write a Wikipedia article I would include that Orodreth as the son of Angrod is Tolkien's latest known thought on the matter, along with other information, as I know this is different from the 1977 Silmarillion. Tolkien's work on the Elder Days can be confusing, and unless Wikipedia is going to limit itself to the constructed Silmarillion...
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elbenprincess wrote: OK, to clarify, indeed he had daghters, right?
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Yes, according to JRR Tolkien in relatively late papers
I don't think this actually clashes with the constructed Silmarillion in any case, though granted a reader looking at the text and tables there would hardly know Finwe's daughters existed. I suppose someone could argue that because they don't appear in the 1977 Silmarillion that they do not exist internally...
... but if so I would not agree, nor do I think that that truly represents the purpose behind the 1977 Silmarillion.