Contents of head, slightly filtered

I like the "posthumous baby" version, but the non-valiant brother idea is quite amusing, too, (especially if Gil-Galad has not been sent away at all, but is listening behind a curtain at this point, and Finduilas is fully aware of this). Another possibility might be, of course, that Gil-Galad is sort of a Fabius Maximus Cunctator of his people and mistaken for a coward because he is cautious instead of following the new, more aggressive strategy that is becoming popular in Nargothrond at the time (much to the detriment of the place and its denizens).