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The History of Galadriel and Celeborn

the long essay of the Second Age: Eregion, the friendship, and the Passing

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Nature

The History of Galadriel and Celeborn is the long essay of Unfinished Tales (Part Two, IV) that gathers the fullest account of Galadriel’s career: her coming into Middle-earth with the Noldor of the Exile, the friendship with Celeborn that is its thread, the counsels of Eregion in the age of the Rings of Power, and her “Passing” west at the end of the Third Age. It stands among the late writings, published unfinished with Christopher Tolkien’s commentary.

Contents

The essay tells of Galadriel, of the House of Finarfin, who crossed the mountains into the lands beyond the Misty Mountains, and whose marriage to Celeborn joined the Noldorin lady to a lord of the Elves; it records the friendship and joint counsel of the pair with the smiths of Eregion, where Celebrimbor and his craftsmen made the Rings of Power under Sauron’s hidden guidance, and Galadriel’s part in the counsel by which the Three were withheld from the Enemy. The narrative continues through the later ages: the guardianship of Lothlórien against the shadow of Dol Guldur, until the destruction of the Ring, when Galadriel — at last pardoned — “passes” over the Sea from the Grey Havens with the Ringbearers.

An appendix gives the alternative resolution of the parentage question: Celeborn as one of the Teleri of Aman (a kinsman of Eärwen), replacing the longer-held account of Celeborn of Doriath, a Sinda of the kin of Thingol; the editor’s commentary examines these shifting resolutions, and Galadriel’s own standing under the Ban of the Valar — an exile who refused the offered pardon until her task was done.

Composition

The material belongs to Tolkien’s late years (mainly the 1950s and 1960s) and was never worked into final form; parts were drawn on for the account in the published Silmarillion and the Appendices, and the fullest text, with its appendix, appears in Unfinished Tales (1980). Later traces of the same drafts are edited in The Peoples of Middle-earth.

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Werke: die Quellen sind seitenübergreifend die Bücher von J.R.R. und Christopher Tolkien (Silmarillion, Hobbit, Herr der Ringe, Unfinished Tales, History of Middle-earth, Nature of Middle-earth u. a.) — eigene Zusammenfassung. Siehe die Concordance und den README der Quelle für die Einzelbelege.
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