Survivor: The Second Age

[Lalaith]

....oh yes....the voting.

Glorfindel - it's not *his* fault he became the poster boy of a certain reactionary anti-Arwen fanboy element in the Third Age. But, let us actually re-examine this Third Age Glorfindel. He had the light of Valinor in his face, did he not....implying that he was only recently returned from his soujourn with Mandos.
So who is this Glorfindel anyway? The scion of the House of the Golden Flower of Gondolin? The Asfaloth chap? Both? Should he be around in the second age at all? I quote from the Encyclopaedia of Arda:

The question of Glorfindel's identity, then, brings us to a much wider, and highly relevant, question. Can we accept a writer's personal notes, whether written in preparation for a published work, or simply for personal satisfaction, as part of that writer's 'canon'?

So you see, keeping him around is not only confusing, it could open a can of literary worms compared to which the Balrog controversy and the Canonicity thread would seem like an ABC primer.

++GLORFINDEL