Character Bios
Gildor
Meaning: From Gil+taur (Star-mighty?), or Gil+dor (Star-dwelling?)
Other Names: Inglorion = scion of Inglor (Q. Ingalaure), 'golden prince/chief'
Location(s): Valinor, Eriador
Race/Species: Elf
Type/Kind: Noldor
Dates: I-III or IV
Parents: Disputed*
Description:
"I am Gildor," answered their leader, the Elf who had first hailed him. "Gilder Inglorion of the House of Finrod. We are Exiles,..."
Book 1, Ch 3, Three is Company, FoTR, LOTR
*As Inglorion means 'scion of Inglor', at one stage of composition he may have been intended to become the son of Inglor Felagund son of Finrod, later Finrod son of Finarfin. This idea was probably abandoned.
Contributors:
Lyllyn 1.3.02, Finch, 01.08.03