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			Quotes aside, and straying from the thread topic:  I think if you can correlate Melian v Galadriel and Morgoth v Sauron, then the choice is very clear.  Melian by far was the most powerfull.  Galadriel was the student and Melian was the master.  Ring or not, any defense that G produced would have been a mere shadow of what Melian's work.  But as a fan of the Lady of the Wood, I thinks its apples and oranges .
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