Meril (mother of Gil-galad)
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Meril was the wife of Felagund and the mother of Gil-galad, according to a version of the legendarium following the completion of The Lord of the Rings in c. 1950.
She was sent away by Felagund along their son Gil-galad (still a child) to her own folk in Eglorest during the Dagor Bragollach, due to Felagund fearing "that all strong places were doomed to fall at last before the might of Morgoth".
Other versions of the legendarium
The War of the Jewels
Felagund's wife appears again (this time without a name) in a pencilled note near the opening of the Beren and Lúthien chapter of the Quenta Silmarillion:
However, this note was struck out, and somewhat further in the Beren and Lúthien chapter (in the part referring to Orodreth's expulsion of Celegorm and Curufin) there appears another note wherein the unnamed wife of Inglor "forsook the folk of Nargothrond and went with her son Gilgalad to the Havens of the Falas".
This has Felagund's wife and son (Gil-galad) only leaving Nargothrond after the expulsion of Celegorm and Curufin (in First Age 465) or later.
The Peoples of Middle-earth
An otherwise unnamed wife of Finrod appears yet again (though not in any explicit association with Gil-galad) in a note from the late 1960s:
Referencias
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