Meaning of the Name : Star of Radiance.
Actor : Mark Ferguson.
Race : Elven.
Division : Noldor.
Family : House of Fingolfin.
Age : 3579 when he died.
Haircolour : Brown.
Eyecolour : Blue.
Birth : I 445.
Death : II 3441.
Parents : Fingon and ?.
Titles/Names : Last High King of the Noldor.
Other : Sixth and last of the High Kings of the Noldor.The only son of High King Fingon,Gil-galad was born late in the First Age and was still a child at the time of the Dagor Bragollach;his father sent him to C�rdan at the Havens for safekeeping when Morgoth broke the Siege of Angband in that battle.Fingon was lost in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad but the crown passed to Gil-galad's uncle Turgon in Gondolin,rather than Gil-galad himself (presumably because of his youth at that time).When Gondolin was lost,Gil-galad received the Kingship of the Noldor;he dwelt with the Exiles of the city at the Mouths of Sirion during the remainder of the First Age.After the destruction of Beleriand during the War of Wrath,Gil-galad founded a kingdom in Lindon in the far northwest of Middle-earth,between the Blue Mountains and the Great Sea.There he and his people prospered,until Sauron returned;he came first to Lindon in the form of Annatar,the Lord of Gifts but Gil-galad and Elrond rejected him.Soon after,the One Ring was forged and there was war in Middle-earth between the Elves and Sauron.After the Downfall of N�menor,Elendil and his sons came to Middle-earth and formed an alliance with Gil-galad,the Last Alliance of Elves and Men.They marched on Mordor and besieged Sauron's Dark Tower.Sauron was defeated but Gil-galad met his death in that war.
Gil-Galad fact : Gil-Galad's grandfather was Galadriel's uncle.
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