Gildor also as the son of Finarfin and Earwen

As a follow-up to my post earlier today about Glorfindel, I now view Gildor as the son of Finarfin and Earwen as well.

This makes both of the Stone Couriers their children, and thus brothers.  It also helps explain the inclusion of Gildor in this story, who otherwise is a relatively obscure character from the LOTR.

As I covered elsewhere, when Gildor introduces himself to Frodo, Sam, and Pippin, he uses the name "Gildor Inglorion of the House of Finrod".  In that earlier post, I also mentioned some of the confusion that has existed relative to the name Inglorion and Finrod, and the resulting confusion about who Gildor is.

While both of those names have ultimately come to be associated with Finrod Felagund, who is also considered the son of Finarfin, they were in the beginning names that belonged to Finarfin himself.  Finarfin's mother, Idril, gave him the mother-name of Ingaulare, which means something like 'top gold', or in its other form of Inglor, also "Heart of Gold", apparently.  Early on, Tolkien interpreted Inglor as referring to Finarfin, but ultimately found this problematic, one of the reasons being that Finarfin never came to Beleriand and potentially been known broadly by Sindarin or Noldor forms of his name (at least in his recorded history... I, of course, have other ideas which involve Finarfin's roles and visits to Middle-earth).

In addition to all of this, in the first edition of the Lord of the Rings, Finarfin was still at that time referred to as Finrod.  That would change in later editions, but Gildor's name, including those references, would remain the same.

All this is to say that it is not out of the realm of possibility that when Gildor refers to himself as Inglorion and of Finrod's House, he may be, in both cases, saying that he is the son of Finarfin.

I think this is so - fairly strongly at this time - based on how other elements of the story are coming together in my head.

The implication is that the Gildor that Frodo runs into in the forest is a far more important character than is let on in the account that we have, and even in how Gildor presents himself.  But it is he that names Frodo as Elf-Friend, a designation that others will both notice and honor in his interaction with other Elves.  The power and ability to do this, or to at least recognize the Being of Frodo (who, again, I have as Earendil), speaks to someone who seems to me more than an obscure Elf who is the son of some random Inglor.

His relation to Glorfindel may be partially alluded to by Glorfindel himself when he meets up with Aragon and the Hobbits on their Flight to the Ford (as I just wrote Ford, I realized that the picture of the red emblem of Glorfindel that was the subject of my post yesterday was on taken from the back of a Ford F150 truck).  He says that his 'kindred' had alerted Elrond of the Hobbits' wanderings, and thus Glorfindel was sent.  It was Gildor who sent the message, and so Glorfindel is at the very least acknowledging some family tie.

Further, it was Gildor who alerted both Tom Bombadil and Aragorn to the plight of the Hobbits, and thus enabled Tom to be on the lookout for them as they passed into his land, and later for Aragorn to find them at Bree.  This wasn't some random Elf.

So the plot thickens.  In my mind, I now have Glorfindel and Gildor as brothers from the Valinor days, with Finarfin and Earwen as their parents.  Again, this will matter for why they seem to be charged with the Anor Stone / Elanor in the first place and ultimately why they will accompany or usher Faramir-Eonwe home.  The story gets stranger in my head, and yet clearer, all at the same time.