The Elf-lord Glorfindel is one of the most powerful of all the Eldar of Middle-earth, counted great among the Wise. He remembers well the elder days of the world, and bears the great power and knowledge of ages past. His wrath can bring terror even to the Nazgûl of Sauron.

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In the days following the fall of Fornost, Glorfindel came to the aid of Eärnur, prince of Gondor, as he pursued the Witch-king of Angmar back to Carn Dûm. Eärnur’s host would have been destroyed, but the sudden appearance of the Elf-lord sent the Witch-king retreating in fear. It was Glorfindel who prophesied that no man would defeat the Witch-king, and who lent his steed Asfaloth to Frodo Baggins during the Ring-bearer’s flight from the Nazgûl across the Ford of Bruinen.

In The Lord of the Rings, Glorfindel was one of the chief counselors of Elrond and a powerful member of the White Council. While Glorfindel first appears in The Lord of the Rings Online^TM: Shadows of Angmar^TM at Rivendell, players should not be surprised if he appears at some unexpected moment as “an Elf-lord revealed in his wrath….”