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Galadriel, lady of light, assisting Frodo on his quest to destroy the One Ring, opposed to Shelob, the giant and evil female spider of darkness, have been compared to Homer's opposed female characters in the Odyssey: Circe and Calypso as Odysseus's powerful and wise benefactors on his quest, against the perils of the attractive Sirens, and the ...
The king and his spouse Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (painted around 1558). (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) With the marriage of Francis II and Mary Stuart, the future of Scotland was linked to that of France. A secret clause signed by the queen provided that Scotland would become part of France if the royal couple did not have children. [60]
14 children: 28 August 1626: Francesco I d'Este: 6 September 1610, Son of Alfonso III d'Este and Isabella of Savoy: Maria Caterina Farnese. Vittoria Farnese Lucrezia Barberini. 6 children. 14 October 1658: Alfonso IV d'Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio: 2 February 1634, Son of Francesco I d'Este and Maria Caterina Farnese: Laura Martinozzi. 2 ...
[T 4] King Tar-Aldarion of Númenor presented Gil-galad with the gift of some seeds of the Mallorn tree; he in turn gave some to Galadriel, who grew them in the guarded land of Lothlórien. [T 5] Gil-galad did not take a wife and had no children. He was the first of the Eldar to mistrust a stranger who called himself Annatar, and forbade him ...
According to the diplomat Simon Renard, the birth nearly killed Catherine, [153] and the royal couple were advised by the King's physician to have no further children. Louis, Victoire and Jeanne, the three children who died in infancy, depicted in Catherine's book of hours. Francis II, King of France (19 January 1544
The Phial of Galadriel is a small crystal bottle filled with water from Galadriel's fountain. It contains the light of Eärendil's star. [T 1] The mariner Eärendil is the holder of one of the three Silmarils preserving the light of the Two Trees of Valinor, and he travels the skies like a star aboard his ship, the Vingilot.
Queen Elizabeth II's children meant the world to her. The royal, who was the longest-reigning monarch in British history, died on Sept. 8, 2022, at Balmoral, the family's royal estate in Scotland ...
Mary was probably born at Blickling Hall, the family seat in Norfolk, and grew up at Hever Castle, Kent. [5] She was the daughter of a wealthy diplomat and courtier, Thomas Boleyn, later Earl of Wiltshire, by his marriage to Elizabeth Howard, the eldest daughter of Thomas Howard, then Earl of Surrey and future 2nd Duke of Norfolk, and his first wife Elizabeth Tilney. [4]