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09-09-2007, 07:47 PM | #1 |
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Galadriel's Hair.
Hey, I *think* I remember reading something about how in her younger years Galadriel refused to cut her hair to (I think) be fashioned into a jewel. Am I correct? Who asked such a bold request? Where is it found?
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09-10-2007, 12:15 AM | #2 | |
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...her hair held a marvel unmatched. It was golden like the hair of her father & of her foremother Indis, but richer & more radiant, for its gold was touched by some memory of the starlike silver of her mother; & the Eldar said that the light of the Two Trees, Laurelin & Telperion, had been snared in her tresses. Many thought that this saying first gave to Feanor the thought of imprisoning & blending the light of the Two Trees that later took shape in his hands as the Silmarils. For Feanor beheld the hair of Galadriel with wonder & delight. He begged three times for a tress, but Galadriel would not give him even one hair. Actually, I started a thread on Hair in M-e a while back http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=12132 |
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09-10-2007, 09:19 AM | #3 |
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Thank you! Erm, what book is that in? I moved and I don't have all my books with me, unfortunately, or else I would have looked it up myself.
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09-10-2007, 09:21 AM | #4 |
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It's in the Unfinished Tales.
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09-10-2007, 09:30 AM | #5 |
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Aha, and that's one of the books that I had to unfortunately leave behind when I moved out of the house.
Thanks! I don't blame Galadriel for not giving her hair to Feanor... he was a jerk. |
09-11-2007, 08:21 AM | #6 |
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I did not know that! Interesting! It makes her giving three strands to Gimli, a Dwarf, even more remarkable!
Merry
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