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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 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. One of its seedlings was given to the Men of Númenor, and it became Nimloth, the White Tree of Númenor.
The lifeless White Tree of Gondor has been compared to the Dry Tree of medieval legend. [3] Medieval manuscript illustration 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 [4]
A White Tree grows in Minas Tirith while a King rules Gondor. Galadriel collects light of Eärendil's Star reflected in her fountain mirror. The tree stands dead while Stewards rule. A little of that light is captured in the Phial of Galadriel. The new King Aragorn brings a White Sapling into the city.
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 .
In his view the emblem must have been a white figure on a black field. [3] Rohan "white on green, a great horse running free" [T 13] McGregor calls the emblem, like those of Gondor and Dol Amroth, an "organic and natural symbol", opposed to the Eye of Mordor and White Hand of Isengard.
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In The Lord of the Rings, the White Tree of Gondor stands as a symbol of Gondor in the Court of the Fountain in Minas Tirith. W. B. Yeats describes a "holy tree" in his poem "The Two Trees" (1893).