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Published: 2019-07-20 16:40:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 3547; Favourites: 102; Downloads: 3
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Description Ereinion Gil-galad, the sixth and last High King of the Noldor . While in the published "Silmarillion" he is the son of Fingon, JRRT's latest idea was to make him the son of Orodreth. Colored version of the illustration to a polemic about his parentage in the jubilee 20th issue of the almanac "Aiglos"  (2015, Polish language issue), with the son of Fingon at the top and the son of Orodreth mirrored in the bottom.
 Son of Orodreth version sta.sh/0qb23eatxiq  
Painter & Photoshop, 2015 & 2019.
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   Ereinion means "Scion of Kings" thus the title, a words play between his epessë  and the complicated parentage. I recommend Tehta's humorous story, which inspired me to make this double-portrait of the "son kings" instead of a portrait of one parentage variation, and also to give such: The Scion of Kings  by Tehta  


   Update 2022  
Hair color mystery solved in the Nature of Middle-earth: Gil-galad had silver hair  

     King of Diamonds     variant at dA:
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Other color & son of Orodreth variations: at dA www.deviantart.com/sirielle/ga…
and in my Arda archive at sirielle.weebly.com/arda.html  


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Comments: 8

Ondyne [2019-09-13 15:12:02 +0000 UTC]

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Sirielle In reply to Ondyne [2019-10-13 14:22:28 +0000 UTC]

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EPH-SAN1634 [2019-08-30 21:54:02 +0000 UTC]

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Sirielle In reply to EPH-SAN1634 [2019-08-31 21:08:56 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! AFAIK Fingon version was written by the Silmarillion editors Christopher Tolkien and Guy Gavriel Kay to unify all existing variants and versions of stories. I haven't hard about the typo, but maybe you are right with it, got to look it up one day. Orodreth, being not a brother but a son of Angrod and the father of Gil-galad (and Findulias) is the latest version JRRT wrote. We don't know if it would be the official variant if JRRT was living long enough to publish the Silmarillion himself, but that is what many people treat as the most canonical since it was the last idea he had. I don't know myself, I can imagine the Silmarillion verse and HoME verse as two existing ideas depending on which book we follow. Or what makes more consistent history. 

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EPH-SAN1634 In reply to Sirielle [2019-08-31 22:05:19 +0000 UTC]

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Sirielle In reply to EPH-SAN1634 [2019-09-01 20:47:27 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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Menkhar [2019-08-30 12:53:11 +0000 UTC]

This is really gorgeous!

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Sirielle In reply to Menkhar [2019-08-30 13:21:34 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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