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Some of the light of the Trees was saved in the Silmarils, central to the mythology of The Silmarillion. [T 8] [T 9] The White Tree was the symbol of the Kings of Gondor. Another tree, Galathilion, was created in the image of Telperion. One of its seedlings, Celeborn, was brought to the island of Tol Eressëa.
Gondor is a fictional kingdom in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings, described as the greatest realm of Men in the west of Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age.The third volume of The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, is largely concerned with the events in Gondor during the War of the Ring and with the restoration of the realm afterward.
The lifeless White Tree of Gondor has been compared to the Dry Tree (pictured) of medieval legend. [13] Manuscript illustration dated 1444 of the Dry Tree (centre) with the Phoenix, flanked by the Trees of the Sun and the Moon. Both the Dry Tree and the Phoenix are symbols of resurrection and new life. Rouen 1444-1445 [14]
The White Tree of Gondor, too, has been traced to the medieval Dry Tree, a symbol of resurrection. Verlyn Flieger has described the progressive splintering of the light of the Two Trees through Middle-earth's troubled history, noting that light represents the Christian Logos .
Gondor "a great standard was spread in the breeze, and there a white tree flowered upon a sable field beneath a shining crown and seven glittering stars" [T 13] McGregor remarks that the emblems of Gondor are "marked by a beauty and nobility .. associated with an all but vanished past". [3]
The Hobbit trees are introduced with the words "The names given in these Trees are only a selection from many." [T 2] Their development is chronicled in The Peoples of Middle-earth; it records that the Boffin and Bolger family trees were typed up for inclusion in Appendix C but were dropped at the last moment, apparently for reasons of space. [T 3]
Season 2 will flesh out the character best known as Aragorn's ancestor and the man destined to cut the ring from Sauron's finger.
Trees are significant in many of the world's mythologies, ... the White Tree of Gondor stands as a symbol of Gondor in the Court of the Fountain in Minas Tirith.