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Gil-galad establishes a realm in Lindon, the young half-elf Elrond often working at his side. Ben Rothstein/Prime VideoĪlong with some of the other elves, Gil-galad, High King of the Noldor, chose to remain in Middle-earth after the First Age rather than depart for the Undying Lands. Weary from the battle, many in the realms of Middle-earth want to linger in respite, believing evil to be entirely vanquished.īut not Gil-galad. As the Second Age begins, Middle-earth is recovering from the defeat of Morgoth, an insidious being of darkness, and the end of the War of Wrath. A character whose name means “Star of Radiance,” Gil-galad is a beacon of hope and action. The most influential beats of the High Elven King’s story occur during the Second Age of Middle-earth, the setting of the upcoming The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. That a poem about Gil-galad persists into the Third Age says much of this pivotal character in Middle-earth’s long history. This despite the fact that Gil-galad fell thousands of years before Samwise’s time. So Samwise Gamgee recites in The Fellowship of the Ring, pulling from his memory a snippet of “The Fall of Gil-galad.” Bilbo Baggins translated the poem from an ancient tongue and it made such an impression on Samwise that it comes to the hobbit’s mind when Aragorn mentions Gil-galad. “Gil-galad was an Elven-king… the last whose realm was fair and free.”

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