Elronds parents

[Pitchwife]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

Well, I suppose he would meet his parents, but why do you think it would be "for the first time in his life"? He and his brother weren't captured at birth.

No they weren't, but it's not like they had much of a nuclear family in their formative years either - Eärendil went on his great voyages when they were no older than two, and the Third Kinslaying and the separation from Elwing happened only a few years later - , so Elrond's memory of his parents may have been a little hazy. No wonder he overdid the parental protectiveness where Arwen was concerned, if you look at it from his own biography - trying to be a better dad than he had?

(In other words, see here.)