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Alfirin · 06-12-2009, 06:50 AM

The Phial is described by Galadriel as being "the light of Earendil's star, set amid the waters of my fountain". Doesn't that sort of imply that Gladriel made the phial herself, or at least that she had some way of opening it and filling it. At the time Celembrimbor was making these things and Galadriel was living in Eregion, she wasn't ruler of Lothlorien yet (she and Celebron had made contact with it, but they didn't come to rule until after she had fled Eregion), so she would not have a special fountain to provide such waters (assuming that 1. Galdriel does not have the ability to create such a fountain whereever she is and 2. the fountain in question isn't some otherwise undescribed water effect she had in the front of her house in Eregion.) Celembrimbor may have made the vessel but it would have been up to Galdriel hereself to put the power into it.

06-12-2009, 06:50 AM	#23
Alfirin Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 435	Re: the Phial of Galadriel The Phial is described by Galadriel as being "the light of Earendil's star, set amid the waters of my fountain". Doesn't that sort of imply that Gladriel made the phial herself, or at least that she had some way of opening it and filling it. At the time Celembrimbor was making these things and Galadriel was living in Eregion, she wasn't ruler of Lothlorien yet (she and Celebron had made contact with it, but they didn't come to rule until after she had fled Eregion), so she would not have a special fountain to provide such waters (assuming that 1. Galdriel does not have the ability to create such a fountain whereever she is and 2. the fountain in question isn't some otherwise undescribed water effect she had in the front of her house in Eregion.) Celembrimbor may have made the vessel but it would have been up to Galdriel hereself to put the power into it.