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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 ...
Eärendil would have rather been one of the Men; however, for the sake of his wife, he chose to be one of the Elves also. His ship, Vingilot ( Quenya : Vingilótë ), was placed in the heavens, and he sailed it "even into the starless voids", but he returned at sunrise or sunset, glimmering in the sky as the Morning Star .
Galadriel: The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales: Lady Galadriel and her husband Lord Celeborn are the co-rulers of the realm of Lothlórien. Lord Gast The Chronicles of Prydain: A vassal of King Smoit and a rival of Lord Goryon. Girion The Hobbit: Lord of Dale during Smaug's attack on the city, and an ancestor of Bard the ...
[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 ...
Durin agrees to hear Elrond's proposal, which he relays to King Durin III. The latter is concerned that Elrond's arrival relates to the Dwarves' secret new discovery. Swimming back to Middle-earth, Galadriel encounters a raft of stranded humans escaping from a sea monster that destroyed their ship. The monster attacks the raft, leaving only ...
Image credits: BallinFC #10. The Candy Bomber. After World War II, when Berlin was divided, the US and UK airlifted supplies into West Berlin to counter the Soviet blockade.
The downfall of Númenor and the changing of the world: the island is drowned by Ilúvatar, and Elendil, Isildur and their people escape to Middle-earth. [1]In Tolkien's legendarium, the island of Númenor, in the great sea to the West of Middle-earth, was created at the start of the Second Age as a reward to the men who had fought against the fallen Vala Morgoth, the primary antagonist of the ...
Elendil (Quenya:) is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.He is mentioned in The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales.He was the father of Isildur and Anárion, last lord of Andúnië on the island of Númenor, and having escaped its downfall by sailing to Middle-earth, became the first High King of Arnor and Gondor.