|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The One Ring Forums:
Tolkien Topics: TV Discussion: The Rings of Power:
Evidence that Galadriel was a warrior, a commander, Sauron's main adversary and physically powerful:
Edit Log
|
|
Voronwë_the_Faithful
Doriath
Dec 1 2024, 11:59pm
Views: 4727
|
|
Evidence that Galadriel was a warrior, a commander, Sauron's main adversary and physically powerful
|
|
|
These are all excerpts from Unfinished Tales, though some of them actually come from "The Shibboleth of Feanor" which was more fully published in The Peoples of Middle-earth:
"Her mother-name was Nerwen (‘man-maiden’), 1 and she grew to be tall beyond the measure even of the women of the Noldor; she was strong of body, mind, and will, a match for both the loremasters and the athletes of the Eldar in the days of their youth."
"She was proud, strong, and selfwilled, as were all the descendants of Finwë save Finarfin; and like her brother Finrod, of all her kin the nearest to her heart, she had dreams of far lands and dominions that might be her own to order as she would without tutelage."
"Even after the merciless assault upon the Teleri and the rape of their ships, though she fought fiercely against Fëanor in defense of her mother’s kin, she did not turn back."
"Her pride was unwilling to return, a defeated suppliant for pardon; but now she burned with desire to follow Fëanor with her anger to whatever lands he might come, and to thwart him in all ways that she could. Pride still moved her when, at the end of the Elder Days after the final overthrow of Morgoth, she refused the pardon of the Valar for all who had fought against him, and remained in Middle-earth."
"In this he emphasized the commanding stature of Galadriel already in Valinor, the equal if unlike in endowments of Fëanor; and it is said here that so far from joining in Fëanor’s revolt she was in every way opposed to him. She did indeed wish to depart from Valinor and to go into the wide world of Middle-earth for the exercise of her talents; for ‘being brilliant in mind and swift in action she had early absorbed all of what she was capable of the teaching which the Valar thought fit to give the Eldar’, and she felt confined in the tutelage of Aman"
"In Fëanor’s revolt that followed the Darkening of Valinor Galadriel had no part: indeed she with Celeborn fought heroically in defence of Alqualondë against the assault of the Noldor, and Celeborn’s ship was saved from them."
"In any case, Galadriel was more far-sighted in this than Celeborn; and she perceived from the beginning that Middle-earth could not be saved from ‘the residue of evil’ that Morgoth had left behind him save by a union of all the peoples who were in their way and in their measure opposed to him. She looked upon the Dwarves also with the eye of a commander, seeing in them the finest warriors to pit against the Orcs."
"Galadriel, striving to counteract the machinations of Sauron, was successful in Lórinand;"
"In Eregion Sauron posed as an emissary of the Valar, sent by them to Middle-earth (‘thus anticipating the Istari’) or ordered by them to remain there to give aid to the Elves. He perceived at once that Galadriel would be his chief adversary and obstacle, and he endeavoured therefore to placate her, bearing her scorn with outward patience and courtesy."
"In Lórinand Galadriel took up rule, and defense against Sauron."
"In her wisdom Galadriel saw that Lórien would be a stronghold and point of power to prevent the Shadow from crossing the Anduin in the war that must inevitably come before it was again defeatedi (if that were possible); but that it needed a rule of greater strength and wisdom than the Silvan folk possessed."
In addition, in a passage that was sadly edited by Christopher Tolkien in the published Silmarillion, Galadriel was described in latest edit of the chapter in the Quenta Silmarillion "Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalie" as "the most valiant" of the house of Finwe, as well as the most beautiful.
'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'
The Hall of Fire
(This post was edited by Voronwë_the_Faithful on Dec 2 2024, 12:09am)
|
|
|
|
|
