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Re: movements of galadriel and MT
No-one has yet commented on the contradiction between what Galadriel tells of her movements in the chapter "The Mirror of Galadriel" in
The Lord of the Rings and the text of the published
Silmarillion.
Galadriel introduces her husband Celeborn to the Fellowship and then continues:<blockquote>
Quote:<hr> He has dwelt in the West since the days of dawn, and I have dwelt with him years uncounted; for ere the fall of Nargothrond or Gondolin I passed over the mountains, and together through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat.<hr></blockquote>Yet the final sentence in Chapter 14 of the published
Silmarillion begins:<blockquote>
Quote:<hr> But none of the Noldor went ever over Ered Lindon, while their realm lasted;<hr></blockquote>Certainly no later writing mentions any departure from Beleriand by Galadriel or
any Elf during the First Age.
So which of these sentences should be modified? Should one change the sentence in
LotR to something like "for
after the fall of Nargothrond and Gondolin
and the ruin of Beleriand I passed over ...". Or should one change the sentence in
The Silmarillion to something like "But
few Noldor went over Ered Lindon ..."? Or should phrases be simply dropped in one work or the other?
Or should one indeed look on even a revised
Silmarillion as a compilation from disparate sources with resulting contractions purposely tolerated? Even to add words such as "And some have said" or "Though some say" is to create an editorial bridge.
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