“…Gondolin the great, city of seven names…”
6YO: “What are the seven names.”
Me: “I’m not sure.”*
8YO: “But I thought Gondolin was a secret.”
Me: “It is a secret. Why do you ask?”
8YO: “Because it said Gondolin of the seven names. How could it be famous if it was a secret.”
I explained that it became famous much later after it ceased to be a secret.
“…and with them came dragons of the brood of Glaurung, and they were become many and terrible.”
6YO: “…and hard of scale. I said hard not heart.”
8YO: “Are there any girl dragons?”
6YO: “Likely or they’d die out.”
“…Glorfindel, chief of the House of the Golden Flower of Gondolin…”
8YO (grins): “He was in Lord of the Rings.”
6YO: “I forgot who Glorfindel was.”
8YO: “He was the one one who helped Frodo get to Rivendell. In the movie they replaced him with Arwen.”
“…Thorondor bore Glorfindel’s body out of the abyss…”
6YO: “It was a different Glorfindel. Was it a different Glorfindel dad?”
4YO: “It WASN’T a different Glorfindel.”
I then read from the Encyclopedia of Arda and we concluded that it most likely was the same Glorfindel.**
“In summary, the notes tell us that, after Glorfindel's death, his spirit was called to the Halls of Waiting, but then was re-embodied after a time by the Valar. He then returned to Middle-earth (either in the mid-Second Age, or as a companion of the Istari in the Third). For the full story of his return, refer to The Peoples of Middle-earth.”
* I later found more here:
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