He does have a significant role in the Beren and Luthien story.
Granted, part of that role is that nobody listens to what he says. (It's a theme with him.) But I don't agree that we should push him further into the background or minimize him more than he already was in the Silmarillion. We have the space and time to flesh out his character more, like we're planning to do for Celeborn, and Aegnor (who is basically nobody in the Silmarillion itself. He expresses no opinion during the Rebellion, does nothing of interest, and then dies. The only reason he's slated for more focus than Angrod in SilmFilm is his romance with Andreth.)
I think that, part of the purpose of fleshing out named background characters is to make their deaths hurt. When Nargothrond falls, the named characters who die are: Finduilas, Orodreth, Gwindor, and Guilin. That's all. The best way to make a slaughter of nameless thousands heartbreaking for the audience is to make sure multiple characters they really care about die there as well. If we follow the Narn story, they'll care about Finduilas and Gwindor. IMO, it would be good to make audiences care about Orodreth as well (Guilin too, if we could pull it off, but he's a much more minor character and we have fewer opportunities to make him matter.)
Granted, part of that role is that nobody listens to what he says. (It's a theme with him.) But I don't agree that we should push him further into the background or minimize him more than he already was in the Silmarillion. We have the space and time to flesh out his character more, like we're planning to do for Celeborn, and Aegnor (who is basically nobody in the Silmarillion itself. He expresses no opinion during the Rebellion, does nothing of interest, and then dies. The only reason he's slated for more focus than Angrod in SilmFilm is his romance with Andreth.)
I think that, part of the purpose of fleshing out named background characters is to make their deaths hurt. When Nargothrond falls, the named characters who die are: Finduilas, Orodreth, Gwindor, and Guilin. That's all. The best way to make a slaughter of nameless thousands heartbreaking for the audience is to make sure multiple characters they really care about die there as well. If we follow the Narn story, they'll care about Finduilas and Gwindor. IMO, it would be good to make audiences care about Orodreth as well (Guilin too, if we could pull it off, but he's a much more minor character and we have fewer opportunities to make him matter.)
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