Elrond’s Father Had a Legendary Impact on Middle-earth — Here’s Why
The story behind Elrond’s father is a fascinating tale of love and fate — and its impact on Lord of the Rings is legendary.
The Lord of the Rings is such a rich universe, that sometimes it feels like the movies can’t help but limit everything about it. It’s not their fault, of course, and Peter Jackson indeed did an incredible job in taking Middle-earth to the big screen, but one does miss a whole universe worth of incredible stories by not going through the doors opened by these movies. One such story is the tale of Eärendil the Mariner, Elrond's (Hugo Weaving) father — a story so beautiful and important, it actually saved the world, changed the fate of all his descendants, and added a star to the sky... Our sky.
