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Old 03-17-2003, 06:24 PM   #7
Voralphion
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No. Galadriel,even aided by Nenya was nowhere near as powerful as Melian. There was no 'Girdle of Galadriel' whereby no-one she didn't want in couldn't enter, if this was the case there would be no need for elven archers to protect the borders, or to blindfold the fellowship because anyone not wanted wouldn't be able to come in, let alone find their way to the centre of the realm (sorry I forgot the name, Caras something?).
The power of the ring was to halt the decay of living things by altering the passing of time and to hallow the soil so that living things grew. The hallowing of the soil helped to protect the land from evil things as they did not like to go on ground hallowed by elves, but it could not stop them, as was seen by the orcs (and Gollum) that followed the fellowship. For this reason they had border guards such as Haldir so that no evil things would not leave if they did indeed enter. Lothlorien was protected not by a protective girdle but by millitary force.
The mirror helped in the protection of Lothlorien because it allowed Galadriel to see what is going on around her realm, this I think is one of the powers of the ring because it involves water so it helps her there, but Melian had many powers of foresight and could tell what was going on around Doriath as well and her powers would've been more powerful than the mirror so Melian is more powerful in that respect as well.
Galadriel's power to shadow her mind and Lothlorien from the mind of Sauron is impressive but also weak when compared with Melian's ability to do this to Morgoth at his height of power.
The power of Galadriel in Lothlorien was in some ways similar to Melian, except in the girdle thing, but Melian was much more powerful than Galadriel with the ring and probabally would've been more powerful even if Galadriel had the ruling ring.
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