[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

He's one of the few cases of Elves getting re-bodied and then being allowed to hang out around us Human types.

Are you sure about Glorfindel? I seem to remember a discussion way back, probably in the old Hobbit Hole, that this was just a reuse of a name, not the same character. Isn't it true that Tolkien talks about this matter in his letters?

[JenB]

He does, and he indicated that it is the same Glorfindel. That was the conclusion we came to last time we had this discussion!

[Overtaxed]

I seem to remember a discussion way back, probably in the old Hobbit Hole, that this was just a reuse of a name, not the same character.

Yes it was in the old Hole, I remember it well. Caused some trouble when I suggested that Tolkien screwed up and had to write himself out of a corner :) I'll see what I can find out in The Letters about this.

I was wrong...I wasn't around for a while. I forgot about the department appreciation luncheon. Then they gave us the rest of the afternoon off. I'm off to trim the verge before the neighbors start squawking!

[Overtaxed]

The "Glorfindel Question" isn't addressed in The Letters According to The Encyclopedia of Arda:

The only real resource we have to answer this question is in The Peoples of Middle-earth (The History of Middle-earth Vol. 12): XIII Last Writings, Glorfindel. Christopher Tolkien dates the notes he gives here at 1972, the year before his father's death.

I don't have that book...sorry :(