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Old 08-16-2005, 09:08 AM   #2
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"Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night
and swaying beeches bear
the elven stars as jewels white
amid their branching hair."
No, I do not think you are wrong at all. Not at all.

If memory serves-- was it not Feanor's frustration at being refused his request (of a strand of hair) that made him determined to create the silmarils in the first place? (Edit on rereading-- sorry, you already said that, more or less. ) Had Galadriel aquiesced, would we have had a happy Feanor-- and no theft, no oath, no kinslaying, etc, etc?

Which would mean that the fate of Middle-Earth was turned by Galadriel's hair and her attitude about it. (Clumsily said. And of course there are many other parties involved, etc. But the fact of her refusal remains, as does the connection between hair, trees, light, stars.
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