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Galadriel
Tolkien character
Galadriel in front of her mirror, by Tessa Boronski, 2011
Created past	J. R. R. Tolkien
In-universe data
Race	Elves
Spouse	Celeborn
Children	Celebrían
Book(due south)	The Lord of the Rings The Silmarillion Unfinished Tales

Galadriel (IPA: [ɡaˈladri.ɛl]) is a character created by J. R. R. Tolkien in his Centre-earth legendarium. She appears in The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and Unfinished Tales.

She was a royal Elf of both the Noldor and the Teleri, being a grandchild of both Rex Finwë and Male monarch Olwë. She was also close kin of King Ingwë of the Vanyar through her grandmother Indis. Galadriel was a leader during the rebellion of the Noldor, and present in their flight from Valinor during the First Age. Towards the finish of her stay in Middle-world, she was joint ruler of Lothlórien with her married man, Celeborn, when she was known equally the Lady of Lórien, the Lady of the Galadhrim, the Lady of Light, or the Lady of the Golden Wood. Her girl Celebrían was the wife of Elrond and mother of Arwen, Elladan, and Elrohir. Tolkien describes Galadriel as "the mightiest and fairest of all the Elves that remained in Centre-earth" (after the decease of Gil-galad)^{[T one]} and the "greatest of elven women".^{[T ii]}

The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey has written that Galadriel represented Tolkien's endeavor to re-create the kind of elf hinted at by surviving references in Sometime English. He has compared his elves also to those in a Christian Middle English source, The Early Southward English Legendary, where the elves were angels. Another scholar, Marjorie Burns, compares Galadriel in multiple details to Rider Haggard's heroine Ayesha, and to Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott, both beingness reworked figures of Arthurian legend. Galadriel, lady of light, profitable Frodo on his quest to destroy the One Band, opposed to Shelob, the giant and evil female spider of darkness, accept been compared to Homer's opposed female person characters in the Odyssey: Circe and Calypso equally Odysseus's powerful and wise benefactors on his quest, against the perils of the attractive Sirens, and the deadly Scylla and Charybdis.

Modernistic songwriters have created songs well-nigh Galadriel; Tolkien's Quenya verse form "Namárië" has been set to music by Donald Swann. Galadriel has appeared in both animated and alive-action films; in Peter Jackson's flick series, she was portrayed by Cate Blanchett.

Fictional biography [edit]

Stories of Galadriel's life prior to the State of war of the Band announced in both The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales.^{[T 3] [T 1]} She was the only daughter and youngest kid of Finarfin, prince of the Noldor, and of Eärwen, daughter of Olwë and cousin to Lúthien. Her elder brothers were Finrod Felagund, Angrod, and Aegnor. She was born in Valinor. She had the power to peer into the minds of others to guess them adequately. She was a member of the royal firm of Finwë. Galadriel was often called the fairest of all Elves, whether in Aman or Center-earth.^{[T iii]}

According to the older account of her story, sketched past Tolkien in The Route Goes Always On and used in The Silmarillion, Galadriel was an eager participant and leader in the rebellion of the Noldor and their flight from Valinor; she was the "simply female to stand tall in those days".^{[T iv] [T v]} She had, however, long since parted ways with Fëanor and his sons. In Beleriand she lived with her brother Finrod Felagund at Nargothrond and the court of Thingol and Melian in Doriath. In this account, she met Celeborn, a kinsman of Thingol, in Doriath.^{[T 6]} She carried some dark secrets from those times; she told Melian part of the fierce story of the Silmarils and Morgoth'due south killing of Finwë, simply did not mention the kinslaying of elves by elves.^{[T 7]}

2nd Age [edit]

Galadriel and Celeborn travelled starting time to Lindon, where they ruled over a grouping of Elves, every bit a fiefdom under Gil-galad. According to Concerning Galadriel and Celeborn, they then removed to the shores of Lake Nenuial (Evendim) and were accounted the Lord and Lady of all the Elves of Eriador. After, they moved eastward and established the realm of Eregion (Hollin). They made contact with a Nandorin settlement in the valley of the River Anduin, which became Lothlórien. At some bespeak, Celeborn and Galadriel left Eregion and settled in Lothlórien. Co-ordinate to some of Tolkien's accounts, they became rulers of Lothlórien for a time during the Second Age; but in all accounts they returned to Lórien to have upwardly its rule later Amroth was lost in the middle of the Third Age.^{[T 3]}

Celeborn and Galadriel had a girl, Celebrían, who married Elrond Half-elven of Rivendell.^{[T 2]}

During the 2d Historic period, when the Rings of Power were forged, Galadriel distrusted Annatar, the loremaster who taught the craft of the Rings to Celebrimbor. Over again according to some of the accounts, Celebrimbor rebelled against her view and seized power in Eregion. As a result, Galadriel departed to Lórien via the gates of Moria, but Celeborn refused to enter the dwarves' stronghold and stayed behind. Her distrust was justified, for Annatar turned out to exist the Nighttime Lord, Sauron. When Sauron attacked Eregion, Celebrimbor entrusted Galadriel with 1 of the Iii Rings of the Elves. Celeborn joined upward with Elrond, whose strength was unable to relieve Eregion but managed to escape back to Imladris. Celeborn reunited with Galadriel when the war ended; co-ordinate to ane text, after some years in Imladris (during which Elrond first saw and fell in honey with Celebrían) Galadriel'south sea-longing became so strong that the couple removed to Belfalas and lived at the place later called Dol Amroth.^{[T three]}

Third Historic period [edit]

'And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In identify of the Dark Lord you will gear up upwards a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible equally the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Dominicus and the Snowfall upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall dear me and despair!' [Galadriel] lifted upwards her manus and from the ring that she wore in that location issued a great calorie-free that illuminated her alone and left all else dark... And then she allow her mitt fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed once more, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-adult female, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was soft and sad. 'I pass the examination', she said. 'I volition diminish, and go into the West and remain Galadriel'.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

In The Fellowship of the Ring, Galadriel welcomed the Fellowship to Lothlórien later on their escape from Moria.^{[T viii]} When she met the Fellowship in her tree-home she gave each member a searching look, testing their resolve—though Boromir interpreted this test as a temptation. She was in turn tested when Frodo Baggins offered to place the Ring in her keeping. Knowing that its corrupting influence would brand her "great and terrible", and recalling the ambitions that had once brought her to Heart-globe, she refused the Ring. She accepted that her own band's ability would fail, that her people would diminish and fade with the One Ring's devastation, and that her only escape from the fading of the Elves and the dominion of Men would be to return at final to Valinor.^{[T nine]} Information technology is implied, backed upward past other writings, that in acknowledgement of this renunciation of power her personal ban from Valinor was lifted.^{[T 1] [T 3]}

When the Fellowship left Lothlórien, she gave each member a gift and an Elven cloak, and furnished the party with supplies, both as practical back up and as a symbol of religion, hope and goodwill. Her hubby Celeborn likewise provided the Fellowship with Elven-boats.^{[T 10]} On the twenty-four hour period that the Fellowship left Lórien, but unknown to them, Gandalf arrived, carried past the eagle Gwaihir. Galadriel healed his wounds and re-clothed him in white, signalling his new status as head of the Istari, the social club of wizards.^{[T 11]}

After Sauron perished, Celeborn led the host of Lórien across the Anduin and captured Dol Guldur. Galadriel came forth and "threw down its walls and laid bare its pits".^{[T 2]} She travelled to Minas Tirith for the wedding ceremony of her granddaughter Arwen to Rex Aragorn Elessar later on the end of the war. Galadriel passed over the Great Ocean with Elrond, Gandalf, and the Ring-bearers Bilbo and Frodo, mark the end of the Third Age.^{[T 12]} Celeborn remained backside, and Tolkien writes that "there is no record of the day when at last he sought the Gray Havens".^{[T 13]}

Characteristics [edit]

The Dúnedain said that her meridian was two rangar, or "homo-high" – some 6 feet 4 inches (193 cm).^{[T 14]} Withal, Galadriel's most hit feature was her beautiful long silverish-gold pilus. The Elves of Tirion said it captured the radiance of the Ii Trees Laurelin and Telperion themselves.^{[T xv]}

Fifty-fifty among the Eldar she was deemed beautiful, and her pilus is held a marvel unmatched. It is golden like the hair of her father and of her foremother Indis, but richer and more radiant, for its gold is touched past some retention of the starlike silver of her female parent; and the Eldar say that the light of the Two Trees, Laurelin and Telperion, has been snared in her tresses.^{[T 15]}

Fëanor greatly admired her hair; it may have inspired him to create the Silmarils.^{[T 15]}

Many idea that this saying offset gave to Fëanor the idea of imprisoning and blending the light of the Copse that later took shape in his easily as the Silmarils. For Fëanor beheld the hair of Galadriel with wonder and please.^{[T fifteen]}

Nevertheless, Galadriel never repaid Fëanor's admiration. Fëanor "had begged her thrice for a tress and thrice she refused to requite him even one pilus. It is said that these 2 kinsfolk, being considered the greatest of the Eldar of Valinor, remain unfriends forever."^{[T 15]}

Her character was a blend of characteristics of the Eldar from whom she was descended. She had the pride and appetite of the Noldor, but in her they were tempered past the gentleness and insight of the Vanyar. She shared the latter virtues of graphic symbol with her father Finarfin and her brother Finrod.^{[T 15]}

She was proud, potent, and cocky-willed, as were all the descendants of Finwë save Finarfin; and like her brother Finrod, of all her kin the nearest to her centre, she had dreams of far lands and dominions that might be her own to order as she would without tutelage. Even so deeper still there dwelt in her the noble and generous spirit of the Vanyar, and a reverence for the Valar that she could non forget. From her earliest years she had a marvellous gift of insight into the minds of others, but judged them with mercy and understanding, and she withheld her goodwill from none salve just Fëanor. In him she perceived a darkness that she hated and feared, though she did not perceive that the shadow of the same evil had fallen upon the minds of all the Noldor, and upon her own.^{[T xv]}

Her sympathy for Gimli the Dwarf in Lothlórien, (when she rebuked her husband Celeborn for being tempted to regret his determination to admit the Dwarf to that country), completely won him over.^{[T 9]}

Relationships [edit]

Family tree[T 15]

Melian the Maia Thingol Elmo Olwë of the Teleri Finwë of the Noldor Indis of the Vanyar Galadhon Eärwen Finarfin Lúthien Galathil Celeborn Galadriel Angrod Eldalótë Finrod Aegnor Dior Nimloth Orodreth Eluréd Elurín Elwing Gil-galad Finduilas Elros Elrond Celebrían Tar-Elendil Silmariën Tar-Meneldur Elendil Ar-Pharazôn Isildur Anárion Arvedui Fíriel Aranarth Aragorn Arwen Elladan Elrohir Eldarion Color key: Colour Description Elves Men Maiar Half-elven One-half-elven who chose the fate of elves Half-elven who chose the fate of mortal men

Assay [edit]

Reconstructed Erstwhile English language elf [edit]

The critic Tom Shippey notes that in creating Galadriel, Tolkien was attempting to reconstruct the kind of elf hinted at by elf references in Old English (Anglo-Saxon) words. The hints are, he observes, paradoxical: while ælfscyne, "elf-cute", suggests a powerful allure, ælfsogoða, "lunacy", implies that getting too close to elves is dangerous. In Shippey's view, Tolkien is telling the literal truth that "beauty is itself dangerous", as Chaucer did in The Wife of Bath's Tale where both elves and friars are sexually rapacious. So when Faramir says to Sam Gamgee in Ithilien that Galadriel must be "perilously fair", Shippey comments that this is a "highly accurate remark"; Sam replies that "folk takes their peril with them into Lorien... Just perhaps yous could call her perilous, because she's and so stiff in herself."^[ane]

Angelic beingness [edit]

Shippey also considers the Christian Middle English attitude of the South English Legendary, a hagiographic work which he supposes Tolkien must have read, that elves were angels. In Shippey's view, Tolkien'southward elves are much like fallen angels, above Men just below the angelic Maiar and the godlike Valar. He comments at once that Galadriel is in one style certainly not "fallen", as the elves avoided the war on Melkor in the Get-go Age; but still, "Galadriel has been expelled from a kind of Heaven, the Deathless land of Valinor, and has been forbidden to return." Shippey suggests that the Men of Middle-earth might have thought the autumn of Melkor and the expulsion of Galadriel added up to a similar fallen status;^[2] and he praises Tolkien for taking both sides of the story of elves into account.^[1]

Arthurian figure [edit]

The Tolkien scholar Marjorie Burns compares Galadriel to Rider Haggard'south heroine Ayesha in his 1887 novel She: A History of Take chances, a volume that Tolkien best-selling as an important influence, and to Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott, which recast the Arthurian legend of Elaine of Astolat; she notes that Ayesha was herself an Arthurian effigy, transposed to 19th century Africa.^[3]

Marjorie Burns's comparing of Galadriel with Ayesha and the Lady of Shalott^[three]

Attribute	Galadriel	Ayesha (She)	The Lady of Shalott
Prototype		Edward Killingworth Johnson, 1887	John William Waterhouse, 1888
Life	immortal Elf	immortal human being afterward entering the flame	"fairy"
Beauty	very off-white long blonde hair	men fall to their knees long raven-black hair	great beauty very long night hair
Wisdom Power	sees more whatsoever man		unsafe and foreign
Work	weaving, and overseeing weaver-maidens		weaves continually
Identify	isolated realm, sheltered from change		enchanted island
Healing	heals and preserves		enchanted
Magic mirror (dish of water)	sees past, present, "things that may all the same be" denies it is magic	sees by and present denies it is magic	"the mirror's magic sights"
Ending	her band loses ability elves leave and diminish	re-enters the flame shrivels up and dies	relinquishes power and dies

Homeric benefactor [edit]

Further data: Shelob

The Tolkien scholar Mac Fenwick compares Galadriel and what he sees as her monstrous contrary, the giant and evil spider Shelob, with the struggle between the good and the monstrous female characters in Homer's Odyssey. Like Galadriel, Circe and Calypso are rulers of their own secluded magical realms, and both offer help and advice to the protagonist. They help Odysseus to avoid destruction by the female person monsters, the Sirens who would lure his ship on to the rocks, and Scylla and Charybdis who would smash or drown his ship; Galadriel gives Frodo the Phial of Galadriel, which past her ability contains the light of Eärendil's star, able to blind and ward off Shelob in her darkest of nighttime lairs. Galadriel's gifts, also, are Homeric, including cloaks, nutrient, and wisdom as well as calorie-free, only like those of Circe and Calypso.^[4]

Legacy in music [edit]

Tolkien wrote a poem "Namárië" that Galadriel sings in goodbye to the departing Fellowship, and to Frodo in particular. The song is in Quenya, and "spoke of things little-known in Heart-earth," but Frodo is said to take remembered the words and translated them long subsequently. It is a lament in which Galadriel describes her separation from the Blessed Realm and the Valar, her longing to return in that location, and at the finish a wish or hope that fifty-fifty though she herself is forbidden (past the Ban) to return, that Frodo might somehow come in the end to the metropolis of Valimar in Valinor. The poem was set to music by Donald Swann with Tolkien's assistance. The sail music and an audio recording are part of the song-bicycle of The Road Goes Ever On. In a recording, Tolkien sings it in the manner of a Gregorian dirge.^[v]

On their album Once Once again, the band Barclay James Harvest featured a vocal called "Galadriel". It gained notability because guitarist John Lees played John Lennon's Epiphone Casino guitar on this track, an event later recounted in a song on the ring's 1990 album Welcome To The Show titled "John Lennon's Guitar".^[6]

Hank Marvin and John Farrar wrote a song "Galadriel", recorded past Cliff Richard; the iv five-line stanzas include the couplet "Galadriel, spirit of starlight / Eagle and pigeon gave birth to thee".^{[vii] [8]} An Australian band named Galadriel released a self-titled anthology in 1971 which "became a highly sought-after collectors' item among European progressive rock circles".^[9]

In 2003, Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, and Annie Lennox co-wrote the Oscar-winning song "Into the West" for the closing credits of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Male monarch. Originally sung past Lennox, the vocal was conceived as Galadriel's bloodshot lament for those who have sailed beyond the Sundering Seas. The lyrics include phrases from the last chapter of the original novel. The song has since been covered by Yulia Townsend and Will Martin.^[10]

Adaptations [edit]

Galadriel was voiced by Annette Crosbie in Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated movie of The Lord of the Rings,^[11] and by Marian Diamond in BBC Radio's 1981 serialisation.^[12]

In Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, Galadriel is played by Cate Blanchett.^[xiii] In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Galadriel narrates the prologue that explains the creation of the One Band, as well as appearing in Lothlórien.^[fourteen]

While Galadriel does not characteristic in Tolkien'southward The Hobbit, the story was amended then that she could appear in Jackson's films based on the volume.^[16]

On stage, Galadriel was portrayed by Rebecca Jackson Mendoza in the costly three-hour-long 2006 Toronto musical production of The Lord of the Rings; Mendoza's dress was hand-embroidered with some 1800 beads.^[xv] The musical was revised and moved to London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 2007, with Laura Michelle Kelly in the "glittering" role.^[17]

Galadriel appears in video games such as The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-globe II, where she is voiced by Lani Minella.^[18]

In 2019, Morfydd Clark was cast every bit a young Galadriel for the upcoming Lord of the Rings television series.^[19]

References [edit]

Master [edit]

This list identifies each item'southward location in Tolkien's writings.

1. ^ ^{a b c} The Silmarillion, "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Historic period"
2. ^ ^{a b c} The Return of the King, Appendix B, "The Tale of Years"
3. ^ ^{a b c d eastward} Unfinished Tales, 4. "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", "Concerning Galadriel and Celeborn"
4. ^ The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion", ch. 9 "Of the Flight of the Noldor"
5. ^ Unfinished Tales, office 2, ch. 4 "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn" discusses "the reasons and motives given for Galadriel's remaining in Middle-earth", citing The Route Goes E'er On.
6. ^ The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion", ch. 13 "Of the Return of the Noldor"
7. ^ The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion", ch. 15 "Of the Noldor in Beleriand"
8. ^ The Fellowship of the Ring, book ii ch. half-dozen "Lothlórien"
9. ^ ^{a b} The Fellowship of the Band, book 2 ch. 7 "The Mirror of Galadriel"
10. ^ The Fellowship of the Band, book 2 ch. 8 "Adieu to Lórien"
11. ^ The Two Towers, volume three, ch. 5 "The White Passenger"
12. ^ The Return of the King, book vi, ch. 9 "The Gray Havens"
13. ^ The Fellowship of the Ring, "Prologue", "Note on the Shire Records"
14. ^ Unfinished Tales, role 3, ch. one "The Disaster of the Gladden Fields: Appendix (Númenórean Linear Measures)"
15. ^ ^{a b c d due east f g h} Unfinished Tales, office ii, ch. 4 "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn"

Secondary [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} Shippey, Tom (1982). The Road to Middle-World. Grafton (HarperCollins). pp. 54–55. ISBN0261102753.
2. ^ Shippey, Tom (1982). The Road to Middle-Earth. Grafton (HarperCollins). pp. 212–214. ISBN0261102753.
3. ^ ^{a b} Burns, Marjorie (2005). Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press. pp. 114–116, footnote 33 (folio 194). ISBN978-0-8020-3806-vii.
4. ^ ^{a b} Fenwick, Mac (1996). "Breastplates of Silk: Homeric Women in The Lord of the Rings". Mythlore. 21 (iii). article 4.
5. ^ Hargrove, Gene (January 1995). "Music in Middle-Earth". Academy of North Texas. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
6. ^ "Galadriel". Barclay James Harvest. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
7. ^ Library of Congress Copyright Office (1977). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series. p. 1618.
8. ^ Gramophone. Vol. 61. C. Mackenzie. 1983. p. 541.
9. ^ McFarlane, Ian (1999). "Broderick Smith". Encyclopedia of Australian Stone and Pop. Allen & Unwin. ISBN1-86508-072-1. Archived from the original on iii August 2004. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
10. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). Guinness World Records. p. 137. ISBN978-1904994107.
11. ^ Beck, Jerry (2005). The Animated Flick Guide. Chicago Review Press. p. 154. ISBN978-one-56976-222-6.
12. ^ "Riel Radio Theatre — The Lord of the Rings, Episode 2". Radioriel. 15 January 2009. Archived from the original on xv January 2020. Retrieved eighteen May 2020.
13. ^ "Torn Exclusive: Cate Blanchett, Ken Stott, Sylvester McCoy, Mikael Persbrandt join cast of Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit"". vii December 2010. Retrieved 7 Dec 2010.
14. ^ Harl, Allison (Spring–Summer 2007). "The monstrosity of the gaze: critical problems with a movie adaptation of The Lord of the Rings". Mythlore. Article 7. 25 (3). {{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
15. ^ ^{a b c} Brantley, Ben (24 March 2006). "Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings,' Staged by Matthew Warchus in Toronto". The New York Times . Retrieved 29 May 2020.
16. ^ Child, Ben. "Peter Jackson tinkers with Tolkien to manus Cate Blanchett Hobbit role". The Guardian . Retrieved 29 May 2020.
17. ^ Billington, Michael (nineteen June 2007). "Guardian review, "The Lord of the Rings"". The Guardian . Retrieved 22 Apr 2012.
18. ^ "Galadriel". Behind the Vox Actors . Retrieved 29 May 2020.
19. ^ Kroll, Justin (17 December 2019). "'Lord of the Rings' Series Taps Morfydd Clark as Immature Galadriel". Variety . Retrieved 17 December 2019.

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