[the phantom]

I'm pleased, Falagar, to see that you raised some questions in your other post that I always ask myself in these "most powerful" sort of debates-

It all comes down to how one defines powerful, and which point in time we're speaking of. Physical strenght?...Magical" powers?...Powerful in the sense of greatest military strenght?

These comments demonstrate part of the reason why I believe there often is not a definite answer for the question "Who is the most powerful?" which, of course, allows people to draw many of their own conclusions.

Not sure if you were refering to me

I was not referring to the quotes you used, they were quite good. But what I said would apply to what you said here-

Galadriel is said to be the Greatest of the Noldor ([maybe] with the exception of Fëanor)

Here is the quote you were referring to-

Galadriel was the greatest of the Noldor, except Fëanor maybe

And then there is this quote-

These two kinsfolk [Galadriel and Feanor], the greatest of the Eldar of Valinor, were unfriends for ever.

and the author's note that follows the quote-

Who together with the greatest of all the Eldar, Lúthien Tinúviel, daughter of Elu Thingol, are the chief matter of the legends and histories of the Elves.

These quotes inevitably come up in power debates, but as I said in my previous post they matter much less than the quote that I gave about Feanor because not only is the Feanor quote more specific but most importantly- "greatest" does not translate into "most powerful". "Greatest" is difficult to define (as is "most powerful"), so we can't use "greatest" quotes as hard evidence.

Suprisingly those quotes have hardly been mentioned in this thread (something that I'm pretty happy about), but I decided that I'd go ahead and address the issue before the quotes started to get used.