Silm thoughts - “Of the Noldor in Beleriand”

[alasse_mirimiel]

What is it about Finrod and Turgon that they were the ones Ulmo chose? That’s my biggest question for this chapter. The only explanation I can come up with is that they didn’t originally desire to go back to Middle Earth (unlike Galadriel, for example). Maybe that meant they would they would give up more readily their new homes when the time came. Though the warning Ulmo gives Turgon seems to suggest he knew Turgon would get more attached to Gondolin than Finrod to Nargothrond. My little headcanon is that Finrod and Turgon used to spend a lot of time on the coast of Alqualondë when they were young, so Ulmo got to know them well, even if they never noticed.