Response to reviewers:
theycallmemary: I'm sorry about the confusion - it should get better once they are all speaking Sindarin rather than Quenya.
Depprium: Gandalf will almost certainly be making an appearance sooner or later, but in the timeline of this story (approximately present day) Frodo has been dead for about 6000 years, so unfortunately they won't be able to visit him!
Emperor K. Rool: Tolkien's final decision on Gil-galad's parentage was to make him the son of Orodreth, who in turn became the son of Angrod, making G-g Finarfin's great-grandson. In HoME 12 Christopher Tolkien states that "Much closer analysis of the admittedly complex material than I had made twenty years ago makes it clear that Gil-galad as the son of Fingon was an ephemeral idea."
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Interlude 5: Elrond
Elrond was indeed on the roof, but jumping off it was the last thing on his mind. It was his favourite place to go when he wanted to be alone to think. He knew that his foster-father had been released from the Halls of Mandos, and they had exchanged several letters, but he had not expected to find Maglor sitting in his living room. When Celebrían announced that his great-grandfather and great-great-uncle were visiting he had thought she meant Celeborn and Galathil, who regularly came to stay. It seemed to amuse her to refer to their relations by as many different relationships as she could think of. Celebrían's father was also her second cousin once removed, Elrond's great-great-uncle and his second cousin twice removed.
Elrond had some vague memories of his biological father, but Maglor was the one who had been there while he was growing up, and was the only father Elrond had really known, because even while he still lived in the Havens of Sirion, Eärendil was away at sea almost all the time. He had found it easy to forgive Maglor for abandoning him to fulfil his oath, but he still could not accept what Elwing has done. She chose the Silmaril over her children and her people, when if she had simply handed the jewel over to Maglor or Maedhros when they asked for it, the people of Sirion would not have died, and Elrond would have had his mother.
Maglor stepped out onto the roof behind Elrond, taking care not to startle him. Elrond turned around. "I am glad to see you, Father," he said, and embraced him.