I stopped careing about Zelda timeline, years ago... I just play the games because they are fun, and they each tell an interesting story...
You can go insane if you think about the timeline too hard...
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You can say anything you want and take anything you want as canon. It's a fair game. WE'RE the customers. We can choose to believe whatever we'd like about fiction in general because the customer is always right. It's made for OUR entertainment so we can take it however we'd like. If you have a problem with that then, well, you go ahead and have a tantrum about it but it's not going to change anybody's mind.
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Technically only the companies (i.e. in place of the Church, from which the term canon is derived) can define what is and isn't canon... But in general most companies aren't pedantic enough to get that specific... The ones who do get pedantic, start adding and tossing out material at whim, as they feel like it...
Star Trek comes to mind... They are very specific as to what is 'canon'... While they have a huge list of 'licensed' spinoff material, in the past they had been very specific that 'only the movies, and the the TV shows are canon'. They have waffled a bit on the Animated Series (in the past stating it isn't canon, at times stating that parts of it canon, or even saying that all of it may be canon, this is constantly in flux). Roddenberry himself personally 'tossed out' the animated series, and Star Trek V in his view. But after he passed, the company eased up on that... Star Trek V has almost consistently be considered canon by Paramount in modern times...
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What if Christopher Tolkien released another companion book to The Lord of the Rings, in which he claimed Sauron originally had hair the color and appearance of pink cotton candy? His family owns the rights to the story, so why deny his explanation even if he clearly doesn't know what the hell he's talking about nor has significant evidence to prove it, right?
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Did you know that J.R.R. Tolkien actually had said in his writings, that he wanted people to expand his world? That others may know things about his world, that even he didn't know? He thought that other writers in his world would be inevitable... There is even one letter, IIRC, that says that he wanted to give permission for others to write stories in his universe when he passed.
However, Christopher Tolkien decided to go against his father's wishes (for the most part), and keep all the rights within the family.
Of course, Chris never had full rights over LOTR and the Hobbit, as his father had sold those to the Paul Zaentz Company/Tolkien Enterprises. That company has been able to make all sorts of spinoff material, long after JRR's death... To Chris's chagrin, or so I've read...