Gildor Inglorion - Adaptations

Adaptations

Gildor does not appear in the theatrical release of Peter Jackson's movie trilogy, but the extended edition briefly shows the exile Elves walking through the woods. They are identified by Frodo Baggins as Elves "going into the West".

In the musical version of The Lord of the Rings, the character of Gildor is female and given the name Elránien (one of two Elven-lords to be made female for the production, Glorfindel being the other). She was played in Toronto by Monigue Lund and in London by Alexandra Bonnet. The character features in the musical number The Road Goes On, along with other exile Elves. The change of name is due to the fact that the name Gildor has the suffix 'dor', which in Tolkien's Elven languages is a masculine suffix used only in the names of male Elves. The name Glorfindel, the other Elf to receive a gender change in the musical, has a neutral suffix that could appear in male or female names. Therefore there was no need to change the latter's name. The name Elránien translates roughly as "Wandering Elf", in reference to the nature of the character's life as an exile Elf.