Editing Celebrimbor (section)

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Like [[Galadriel]] and Gil-galad, Celebrimbor first appeared as a character in ''The Lord of the Rings'' and then had to be inserted into ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', leading to multiple changes to his descent. In a c. 1968 version of the story, included in the essay ''Eldarin Hands, Fingers and Numerals'',<ref group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|2005}}</ref> Celebrimbor was one of the [[Teleri]] of Aman, one of the three companions of Galadriel and [[Celeborn]] (here made into a Telerin prince ''Teleporno'' or ''Telporno''). [[Christopher Tolkien]] noted that his father had mentioned Celebrimbor's descent from Fëanor in the appendices to ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', and had underlined it in one of his personal copies, writing in the margin a note stating that Celebrimbor was Curufin's son, and that if he had remembered this he would have felt bound to retain that version. A different version, in the late essay ''Of Dwarves and Men'', has Celebrimbor as one of the [[Sindar]] who claimed descent from Daeron,<ref name="Of Dwarves and Men" group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1996|loc=ch. 4 "Of Dwarves and Men"}}</ref> and at one point, Celebrimbor was also one of the [[Noldor]] of [[Gondolin]].<ref name="Galadriel and Celeborn" group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1980|loc=part 2, ch. 4 "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn"}}</ref>