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Morwen · 03-21-2010, 08:28 PM

I find the title of the thread interesting as I tend to think of the gifts to the Fellowship as Galadriel's gifts. She is the one who presents the gifts and several of them have a personal connection to Galadriel - specially blessed earth from her garden, light from a star set amid the waters from her fountain, an heirloom originally given to her daughter and of course the hairs from her head.
With respect to the gift giving ceremony my take on it was that intention was to give parting gifts to everyone and some people's gifts ended up being more personalised than others. Gimli's gift is given because of his particular request. The brooch given to Aragorn is strictly speaking not really Galadriel's gift but one left in her keeping. However, in the case of the gifts to Sam and Frodo I wonder if the more personal nature of their gifts stems from the fact that she has interacted with them more than the other fellowship members (with the exception of Aragorn), namely when they are invited to look into her mirror. Of course the special nature of Frodo's gift can also be explained by the fact that he is the Ring-bearer and very much in Galadriel's thoughts.

03-21-2010, 08:28 PM	#6
Morwen Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 274	I find the title of the thread interesting as I tend to think of the gifts to the Fellowship as Galadriel's gifts. She is the one who presents the gifts and several of them have a personal connection to Galadriel - specially blessed earth from her garden, light from a star set amid the waters from her fountain, an heirloom originally given to her daughter and of course the hairs from her head. With respect to the gift giving ceremony my take on it was that intention was to give parting gifts to everyone and some people's gifts ended up being more personalised than others. Gimli's gift is given because of his particular request. The brooch given to Aragorn is strictly speaking not really Galadriel's gift but one left in her keeping. However, in the case of the gifts to Sam and Frodo I wonder if the more personal nature of their gifts stems from the fact that she has interacted with them more than the other fellowship members (with the exception of Aragorn), namely when they are invited to look into her mirror. Of course the special nature of Frodo's gift can also be explained by the fact that he is the Ring-bearer and very much in Galadriel's thoughts. __________________ He looked down at her in the twilight and it seemed to him that the lines of grief and cruel hardship were smoothed away. "She was not conquered," he said Last edited by Morwen; 03-21-2010 at 09:36 PM.